Publisher description

Provides lessons on the art of cartooning along with information on terminology, tools, techniques, and theory.

For the first time, all fourteen issues of Johnny Ryan’s career-defining comic book series Angry Youth Comics (2000–2008) are collected in one place: all the comics, the covers, and even the contentious letters pages, in one toilet-ready brick. Johnny Ryan’s utterly unpretentious, taboo-tackling is an infectious and hilarious bombardment of political incorrectness, taking full advantage of the medium’s absurdist potential for maximum laughs. In an age when the medium is growing up and aspiring to more mature and hoity-toity literary heights, Ryan builds on the visceral tradition that cartooning has had on our collective funny bone for over a century.

The creator of the comic book series "Schizo" offers recent works by seventy-five of his favorite contemporary North American comic artists in this collection of graphic fiction.

Presents an anthology of contemporary comics by such cartoonists as Richard McGuire, Mark Newgarden, Lynda Barry, and Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez, along with a few vintage comics.

Examples from the Yellow Kid of 1896 to Peanuts, B.C., and Doonesbury.