Overview
"Black and white jumbo-sized comic from the legendary cartoonist Justin Green. The oversize pages allow the reader to fully appreciate Green's artwork. Includes stories with Binky Brown and Rowdy Noody, as well as the baseball classic ""Right Field"" (Read it and weep). The center spread is the masterpiece 'The Gates of Purgatory.' Also printed in large format is the complete five-part serial of ""We Fellow Traveleers"" where Justin and his brother and alter-ego Babyface find themselves trapped in the Saw-Church of Profanity. Originally published in 1976, this underground classic is now available! ""a star of underground comics in the 1970s who channeled his Catholic guilt and childhood neuroses into ""Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary,"" a raw and intimate confessional epic that inspired cartoonists like Art Spiegelman to explore autobiographical subjects"" -- The New York Times https: //www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/arts/justin-green-who-put-himself-into-his-underground-cartoons-dies-at-76.html"
Full Product Details
Author: Justin Green
Publisher: Last Gasp
Imprint: Last Gasp
Dimensions:
Width: 31.40cm
, Height: 0.60cm
, Length: 37.40cm
Weight: 0.295kg
ISBN: 9780867190731
ISBN 10: 0867190736
Pages: 40
Publication Date: 01 September 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Book
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Mr. Green's mind-expanding example of self-dissection helped me gather the confidence to write 'Jimmy Corrigan, ' - Chris Ware a star of underground comics in the 1970s who channeled his Catholic guilt and childhood neuroses into Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary, a raw and intimate confessional epic that inspired cartoonists like Art Spiegelman to explore autobiographical subjects -- The New York Times https: //www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/arts/justin-green-who-put-himself-into-his-underground-cartoons-dies-at-76.html
"Mr. Green's ""mind-expanding example of self-dissection helped me gather the confidence to write 'Jimmy Corrigan, '"" - Chris Ware ""a star of underground comics in the 1970s who channeled his Catholic guilt and childhood neuroses into ""Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary,"" a raw and intimate confessional epic that inspired cartoonists like Art Spiegelman to explore autobiographical subjects"" -- The New York Times https: //www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/arts/justin-green-who-put-himself-into-his-underground-cartoons-dies-at-76.html"
Author Information
"Justin Considine Green (July 25, 1945 - April 23, 2022) was an American cartoonist who is known as the ""father of autobiographical comics.""[3] A key figure and pioneer in the 1970s generation of underground comics artists, he is best known for his 1972 comic book Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary."
