Fair Weather (First Edition)

Joe Matt

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ISBN 10: 1896597564 ISBN 13: 9781896597560

Published by Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal), 2002

Language: English

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First edition. First Printing. Hardcover, issued without a dust jacket. Very fine, a pristine, unread copy. GRAPHIC NOVELS.

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Title

Fair Weather (First Edition)

Publisher

Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal)

Publication Date

2002

Language

English

ISBN 10

1896597564

ISBN 13

9781896597560

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

New

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket

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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.

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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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