Fat Cop HC (2024 Fantagraphics) comic books

1st printing. Story and art by Johnny Ryan. Upholding crime and corruption, one fast food jointat a time.Fat Cop never passes up a possible grift, a chance to use excessiveforce, or a pit stop at any chain restaurant he passes. He chafeswhen forced to take a new partner, Pete Rick, to keep him on theup and up. Even when he lucks into a heroic deed, he managesto do so repulsively. But when Fat Cop uncovers a child slavering operating out of the local Trader Joe's, he may have met hismatch on the reprehensibility scale. If he's not careful, it mightbe a transformative experience that causes him to reconsiderhis role as a loving partner and father. Well, up to a point, anyway- sometimes a fat cop is just a Fat Cop.Johnny Ryan returns to his lowbrow humor roots followinghis cult classic and violent fantasy series, Prison Pit. Ping-ponginghis antihero through an ever-escalating and cascading seriesof violent, scatological, and wildly imaginative absurdities (mostbut not all of Fat Cop's own making), Ryan's brilliance as a visualand verbal gag writer shine on every page of this master class in physical humor andcomics storytelling. Fat Cop is as hilarious as it is profane, and a welcome return tolong-form comics by the cartoonist and animation veteran Johnny Ryan.Johnny Ryan is the creator of the cult favorite Angry Youth Comics, a co-creator ofthe Nickelodeon series Pig Goat Banana Cricket, and was the story editor of Warner'smid-2010s reboot of Looney Tunes. He lives in Glendale CA. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 192 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $29.99.