Mutant Aliens, Signed Copy

Bill Plympton

ISBN 10: 1561632368 / ISBN 13: 9781561632367

Published by Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing, 2003

About this Item

This is a near fine, first edition, first printing paperback copy, blue spine. Inscribed on the title page to Matt by Bill Plympton with a full page drawing of Mr. High Hair.

Seller Inventory # 080200

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mutant Aliens, Signed Copy
• Publisher: Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1561632368
• ISBN 13: 9781561632367
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: wraps
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Animation cartoonist extraordinaire Bill Plympton joins the NBM line-up with a graphic novel advance look at his next goofy feature-length animated film! An astronaut¹s mission goes awry and he¹s figured forever lost until, years later, his daughter spots him on a telescope on his way back to Earth with a ship full of aliens and vengeance on his mind. Yes, vengeance, as the truth is out! Corporate bigwigs wanted his mission a failure! Our valiant (and now rather hirsute) astronaut unleashes the aliens on an aghast humanity!

Reviews

Released in anticipation of a full-length animated feature of the same name, this is the hilarious comic story of an astronaut, Earl Jensen, stranded in space by Dr. Frubar, a money-hungry politician who's hatched a plot to increase funding for the space program. Twenty years later, Earl crash-lands back on Earth with a ship full of huge mutant creatures. Drifting in space these two decades, Earl has liberated the ship's lab animals and turned the whole enterprise into a weird, orbiting, genetic Garden of Eden. While under the influence of a wacky space home-brew, Earl and his animal pals party a little too hard. He returns to earth with a mutant species in tow, descended from the pig, dog, duck, guinea pig, snake and alligator on board, andAnow it gets really kinkyAfrom Earl himself. Drawn in pencil in Plympton's familiar overheated cartoon style, the black and white panels read like a highly detailed film storyboard, leaving the reader with the impression of having witnessed the artist in the midst of the creative process. (Sept.)
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Plympton's hyperkinetic animated films provoke the laughter of astonishment at seeing the impossible imaginatively realized, as when a male figure constantly metamorphizes by such alarming means as swallowing his face. Like I Married a Strange Person (1996), this book consists of continuity sketches for a forthcoming film. The story, as the title hints and the cover, with its screaming humans fleeing toothy monsters, verifies, is a parody of sf-horror "creature features." An astronaut marooned in space by a malicious mission controller returns with a shipload of aliens to wreak vengeance, helped by his daughter, who never gave up hope for his return, and her randy boyfriend, who isn't the only one hot to trot. Indeed, sex is, next to vengeance, the primary mechanism driving the plot. Doubtless the movie will be more scabrous, yet the book will offend those who want to be offended while amusing aficionados of ludicrous vulgarity. Ray Olson
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