Blubber comic books issue 1
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Issue #1
Published Jun 2015 by Fantagraphics.Story, Art and Cover by Gilbert Hernandez. What's this? An all-new, stand-alone, one-shot comic book from one of our greatest living cartoonists? Christmas has come early! Featuring six mostly wordless, thoroughly surreal adventures featuring a cast of misfits, monsters, and anthropomorphs that could only spring from the id of the great Hernandez, last year's Eisner Award winner for 'Best Short Story'! DEMONS AND ANGELS: 24 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $3.99.
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Published Jan 2022 by Fantagraphics.
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1st printing. Collects Blubber (2015 Fantagraphics) #1-5.
Story and art by Gilbert Hernandez.
Collecting the first five issues of Gilbert Hernandez's comic book series Blubber, an absurdly X-rated showcase for the most surreally transgressive of Hernandez's short stories. Weirdos (Blubberoo, Mr. Elvis, John Dick, the Mentor), creatures (the Mau Guag, Doogs, and Orlats...), and anthropomorphs (the Cloarks, the Kekeppy) visit places where most comics fear to go.
Blubber veers between an absurdist satire of porn (and occasionally nature documentaries) as well as a defiant provocation to those unable to appreciate the difference between cartooning and obscenity. As R. Crumb said, "It's only lines on paper, folks!" It is also a howlingly funny book, filled with a rogues gallery of colorful comic book monsters (the Pollum, the Junipero Molestat, the mythical Forest Nimmy) and characters (T.A.C. Man, Mr. Hippy, Padre Puto, the Snowman, Baron Mungo, Red Tempest) that echoes the sheer visual imagination of Jack Kirby.
Hardcover, 160 pages, B&W. Mature Readers
Cover price $19.99.
