Fair Weather (Signed First Edition)

Joe Matt is justly famed in comix for the embarrassing frankness with which he reveals his personality, life, and obsessions. Disturbingly shameless and self-absorbed, Joe Matt writes about himself, warts and all! And in his new Peepshow collection, titled Fair Weather, he wants to share his suburban 1970s childhood with you. Save the tears, nothing bad ever happened to Joe Matt. That he didn’t have coming. Joe Matt is socked in the stomach! Of course he deserved it! Completely unsentimental, hilarious and strangely endearing.

Matt is renowned--some would say notorious--for autobiographical comics portraying himself as a penny-pinching, misanthropic pornophile. In this account of a weekend from his 1970s suburban childhood, he takes a different tack. His backward glance is no nostalgia-tinged recollection, however. Himself when young enjoys hanging out with best friend Dave, digging an underground fort, and watching horror movies on TV, but he spends most of his time avoiding chores, cheating his friends, and hiding from bullies. Matt's depiction of his younger self is as harsh as that of himself grown. Boy Joe is greedy, a shoplifter, and a bed wetter. In response to the traumatic discovery that Mom has thrown out his comic-book collection, he threatens to burn the house down. In short, here, in nascency, are the traits that define the mature--well, older--Joe. The child is father to the malcontent. As cowardly as his comics persona is, Matt the artist is utterly fearless when it comes to unflinchingly exposing his pathetic life for all the world to see. Gordon Flagg
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