Comics Are for Idiots: A Comic Strip Collection by Johnny Ryan - Softcover

Ryan, Johnny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560979747 ISBN 13: 9781560979746

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2008

Synopsis

America's stupidest second-grader is back! This is the third collection of Johnny Ryanis weekly comic strip, Blecky Yuckerella, as seen in the pages of Vice magazine and elsewhere. Blecky is a four-panel gag strip in the tradition of Underworld, Maakies, and Nancy, but with much more generous portions of bodily fluids and toilet humor. Blecky Yuckerella is the ugliest girl in the second grade, and the only one with three-day stubble, but sheis got a lot of heart! The stripis cast of characters also includes Blecky's Aunt Jiggles, her best friend Wedgie, Insanio the Cat, and many other absurdist goofballs. This book collects over 100 strips for the first time, and Ryan's unmistakable blend of politically incorrect gags and social satire is as sharp as ever.

About this title

About the Author:

Johnny Ryan was born in Boston, MA, and lives in Los Angeles, CA.  He is the co-creator and co-executive producer of the Nickelodeon TV series Pig Boat Banana Cricket.

Review:

“Blecky Yuckerella is Ryan's broad-stroke conflation of Nancy and Little Orphan Annie transmogrified into a nightmare so creatively scatological you can't help but laugh.”
- The Boston Globe

“This guy is literally the funniest cartoonist living in the world today. These sick vignettes about his anti-heroine Blecky Yuckerella deserve to go down in history alongside Peanuts and Garfield.”
- Vice

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1560979747
• ISBN 13: 9781560979746
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104