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In this book, a cartoonist uses a 1937 found photo to create a fictional graphic novella about each student in the class. Robert Triptow stumbled across a real-life class photo of an anonymous 1937 public school under a pile of garbage and his imagination took off. Several years later, the result is the utterly charming, completely original graphic novella Class Photo. Using the photo as a springboard, each student's fictionalized life is depicted in one-page installments. Triptow weaves these imagined lives in and out like so many dedications in a yearbook, mixing in social satire, elegant cartooning, occasionally disgusting hilarity, and plenty of good, clean fun. What began as a self-motivating formal exercise has yielded one of the more whimsically engaging, original, and entertaining graphic books in recent memory. Black & white

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Drawn rather as R. Crumb might have if he were ever able to relax, the lugubriously fated classmates and their principal and two teachers who are also in the picture should afford as much snorting amusement to comics fans as Triptow and his buddy originally got out of them.--Ray Olson

It's a testament to his skill that he was able to turn a solid high concept into reality on page after page of this ridiculous novella, as well as the fact that despite a certain expected nastiness on the page, Triptow shows a remarkable amount of empathy for his creations. Drawn rather as R. Crumb might have if he were ever able to relax, the lugubriously fated classmates and their principal and two teachers who are also in the picture should afford as much snorting amusement to comics fans as Triptow and his buddy originally got out of them.--Ray Olson Very intriguing, dense-feeling stuff...--Joe McCulloch

It's a testament to his skill that he was able to turn a solid high concept into reality on page after page of this ridiculous novella, as well as the fact that despite a certain expected nastiness on the page, Triptow shows a remarkable amount of empathy for his creations.

"Drawn rather as R. Crumb might have if he were ever able to relax, the lugubriously fated classmates and their principal and two teachers who are also in the picture should afford as much snorting amusement to comics fans as Triptow and his buddy originally got out of them.--Ray Olson ""Booklist"" It's a testament to his skill that he was able to turn a solid high concept into reality on page after page of this ridiculous novella, as well as the fact that despite a certain expected nastiness on the page, Triptow shows a remarkable amount of empathy for his creations.-- ""High-Low"" Very intriguing, dense-feeling stuff...--Joe McCulloch ""The Comics Journal"" [Class Photo] ...is a deeply entertaining exercise in imagination. With completely fabricated names and stories applied to the photo's cast of characters, Triptow's Class Photo is a collection of ridiculous fun and smart satire, all wrapped up in a quick read.--Tyler R. Kane ""Paste"" Cartoonist Robert Triptow's Class Photo is an inventive, humorous, and decidedly raunchy chronicle... Triptow's imagination and penchant for R-rated humor shine in this short but satisfying original graphic novel.--Zach Hollwedel ""Under the Radar"""

Very intriguing, dense-feeling stuff...--Joe McCulloch

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Robert Triptow is from Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the recipient of the first Lambda Literary Award for Humor, and one of the earliest contributors to Howard Cruse's historic Gay Comics anthology; he succeeded Cruse as editor. Triptow's comics also appeared in such seminal '90s indie comics like Young Lust and Naughty Bits. Most recently, Triptow's work was included in the Eisner nominated anthology No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics. As a journalist, he has written for various publications such as The Advocate, Bay AreaReporter, Frontiers, and the Sentinel, among other West Coast LGBTQ publications. He lives in Portland, OR.

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