Joe Matt has a new issue of Peepshow!

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one issue every five years?! not that anyone cares. also he lives in LA now? wtf.

http://www.myspace.com/josephmatt

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

apparently has even fewer readers than Bone!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Joe Matt>>Chester Brown>>Seth

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Is it really 5 years since the last issue? Blimey! I'll buy it, if I see it. Or maybe I'll just wait 'til his next collection comes out.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

"Joe Matt>>Chester Brown>>Seth"

yes

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

More >s between Brown and Seth plz.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Seth's one of those guys whose art I REALLY admire, but the writing is just shitty. So boring. and his aggressive nostalgia is very irritating... (altho oddly he is also probably my favorite supporting character in Peepshow)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Ches is way too quiet in those little cartoon meetings. I hate Seth too. He did art for Aimee Mann, who I also hate.

What do you guys think of Julie Doucet on thee Canuck comix front?

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link

man I haven't seen Doucet's stuff in years. I remember when she first started Dirty Plotte that it was fairly engaging in a very dreamlike/surreal way, but her art is just so busy... what's she up to these days?

Seth's done lots of hate-able things, but that one panel gag of him running on the treadmill on the back of one of the early Peepshows always cracks me up.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

(also his parody of/homage to Joe Matt's early hundreds-of-tiny-panels schtick is really funny - mostly cuz the whole strip is just him complaining to the reader about how cheap/selfish/assholish Joe is)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link

That sounds rich. I've never seen it.

Doucet had a bit in that McSweeney's comics issue, the first thing I'd seen of hers since Dirty Plotte. I loved thee Plotte but her new stuff is boringer atuobio stuff and a lot less of the busy charm that made her & Lynda Barry so fucking great.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 14 December 2006 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link

ooh Lynda Barry - she had a great streak there for sure.

(the Seth/Matt parody strip I'm referring to is at the very back of the first bound volume of Peepshow strips)

Actually y'know what's impressed me the most from that late 80s/early 90s crop of underground cartoonists is Charles Burns' "Black Hole". Great great book.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 December 2006 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

(er, I meant of that particular crop's recent output)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 December 2006 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I kinda regretted spending money on this after I was done with it. Appropriately enough.

― A B C (sparklecock), Thursday, 14 December 2006 05:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Seth's nostalgia schtick is THE WORST. I liked It's A Good Life etc though.

― A B C (sparklecock), Thursday, 14 December 2006 05:12 (seventeen years ago) link

got this on Sunday finally - but my enthusiasm wasn't entirely sated. Issue was oddly static, even for him, and as the final issue in a cycle its conclusion seemed oddly abrupt and pointless. I remember feeling the same way about "Fair Weather" when it ended, but going back and re-reading the storyline as a whole I got a really nice sense of continuity and closure from it. But this little 4-issue sequence seemed slighter somehow... even so, looking forward to whatever comes next, a change of scenery and adventures in Hollywood sound like great grist for the Joe Matt-mill.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 18 December 2006 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

WTF–you hate Seth's nostalgia but you liked It's A Good Life? I thought that was his personal past-fetishizing nadir. I must say that Seth is a very good looking guy, though.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah I dunno what to say. It was the first thing I read by him and I didn't so much realize it was A THING at that point

― A B C (sparklecock), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 03:13 (seventeen years ago) link

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