| Take a Joke Contributor(s): Ryan, Johnny (Author) |
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ISBN: 1606994646 ISBN-13: 9781606994641 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Humor | Form - Comic Strips & Cartoons |
| Dewey: 741.5 |
| LCCN: 2013497054 |
| Series: Angry Youth Comix |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.9" W x 9.9" (1.05 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Johnny Ryan's transgressive masterpiece Prison Pit has been the talk of alt-comics circles for the past year since its debut in the summer of 2009. But before Prison Pit, Ryan garnered a considerable following via his one-man humor anthology (which doubled as a one-man War Against Political Correctness) Angry Youth Comix. Take a Joke collects many of the best stories from this inimitable series as well as many strips created for the wildly-popular Vice magazine, to which Ryan has contributed for years. Unlike Ryan's previous collections, which focused on very short stories, Take a Joke spotlights several of the artist's longest humor pieces to date, notably: "Graveyard Goofs," in which Ryan's hapless antiheroes Sinus O'Gynus and Loady McGee exhume the corpse of the recently-deceased Santa Claus as part of a Top Secret experiment, fantasize an orgy with a collection of anthropomorphic condiment bottles (resulting in an unwanted pregnancy), and end up in Hell; "Boobs Pooter's Jokepocalypse," starring a coprophiliac version of Godzilla who destroys the world with hilarious jokes and crazy pranks; and "The World's Funniest Joke," a 24-page masterpiece that makes The Aristocrats look like a Nora Ephron film. All this plus Cheeseburger Chase, Omletta DuPont, and "The Day The New Yorker Came to Town"! |
Contributor Bio(s): Ryan, Johnny: - 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. |