Pussey!

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Pussey!
Pussey cover.jpg
Cover of the hardcover collection
Date1995
PublisherFantagraphics Books
Creative team
CreatorDaniel Clowes
Original publication
Published inEightball
Issues1, 3-5, 8-10, 12, 14
Date of publicationOctober 1989–October 1994
ISBN1-56097-186-X (hardcover)
1-56097-183-5 (softcover)
Chronology
Followed byLike a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron

Pussey! is a comics serial and graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. It was originally serialized across nine non-consecutive issues of Clowes's alternative comic book Eightball,[1] and was later collected by Fantagraphics Books.

Pussey! tells the satirical story of a comic book artist named Dan Pussey, following him from his childhood years, through his successful career and into aged obscurity. Along the way he lampoons the comics industry as a whole, including direct satires of several creators, such art Art Spiegelman stand-in character Gummo Bubbleman.[2]

Dave Gilson, writing for Mother Jones, called Pussey! a "knowing send-up of comic nerddom",[3] and Tom Spurgeon of The Comics Reporter said that "works like Pussey...remind that he may also be its best living practitioner of filthy, blunt satire".[4]

Cultural references[]

  • In the final episode of The IT Crowd ("The Internet Is Coming" Special, broadcast in September 2013), Jen Barber is seen reading the Fantagraphics Books book of the series

References[]

  1. ^ Parille, Ken (1995). "List of Eightball contents". East Carolina University. Retrieved May 10, 2012.
  2. ^ "Fantagraphics Books: Pussey!". 1995. Archived from the original on June 9, 2012. Retrieved May 10, 2012.
  3. ^ "Mother Jones, Clowes Encounter: An Interview With Daniel Clowes, Dave Gilson". May 2010. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
  4. ^ The Comics Reporter, CR Holiday Interview #19 -- Daniel Clowes, Tom Spurgeon, January 2011, accessed May 11, 2012
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