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1.4.05

Indie Comic artist Johnny Ryan, known for his ‘Angry Youth‘ Comics and general poor-taste, has been skewering the elder statesmen of indie comics in his ‘Shouldn’t You be Working?’ strip. These strips are mostly not safe for work, and are archived on his website, though some URL-archaeology was necessary to get to some of the older ones. You should probably have an unhealthy knowledge of the indie comics “scene,” and a high tolerance for extreme vulgarity to appreciate most of them. There’s an interview with Ryan (Conducted by Peter Bagge) here if you’d like some background.

On Art Spiegelman’s “In the Shadow of no Towers“

On Chris Ware’s McSweeney’s #13

On Seth’s Life in general, as detailed in Comic Art #6

On Adrian Tomine’s “Optic Nerve”

On Daniel Clowes’ “Ghost World“

On Craig Thompson’s “Blankets“

On Joe Sacco’s “Safe Area Gorazde“

On Chester Brown’s “Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography“

On Joe Matt’s “Peepshow”

On Ivan Brunetti’s “Schizo“

On Aline and R. Crumb’s “Dirty Laundry Comics”

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1.4.05

Andy Baio says:

Funny, I was just reading about his parody of Craig Thompson’s “Blankets.” Have you been able to find that one?

Before he was making fun of indie cartoonists, he was making fun of classic Sunday strips. If you dig through the latter 2004, it looks like he moved onto mocking superhero comics also.

1.5.05

Phil says:

HAW. Also in the newest issue of TCJ, there’s an interview with Ivan Brunetti! Sa-weet.

1.5.05

J says:

The Blankets parody can be found here.

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Eli says:

Great post, Adam, even the Gawker Media Ventures Family of Products thinks so. If your boss didn’t already know about your blog, he does now…

(full disclosure: I am Adam’s boss.)

1.5.05

RotJ says:

Google index

1.7.05

Jim Treacher says:

Johnny Ryan is hilarious. See here and here unless you’re gay, a Muslim, and/or a sourpuss. And buy the Angry Youth Comics paperbacks, for Christ’s sake.

1.7.05

Adam says:

3:02 PM, Eli?
“Shouldn’t you be working?”
ZING!

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