Peepshow (comic book)

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Peepshow is a comic strip and a comic book by Joe Matt. Currently 13 issues of the comic book have been published, the latest in 2002.

The story is divided into three story arcs:

#1 to #6, about his relationship with girlfriend Trish and their breakup. Collected in the book The Poor Bastard, 2002.

#7 to #10, deals with Joe Matt's childhood and family. Collected in the book Fair Weather, 2002.

#11 to #14, depicts Joe Matt arguing with his cartoonist friends and obsessing over his addiction to pornography. A new, cleaner style of drawing was adopted for this storyline. Printed in two colors on tinted paper. To be collected sometime in 2007 in a book titled Spent.

Peepshow : The Cartoon Diary Joe Matt collects Matt's strips from 1987 through 1992.

In 2004, it was reported that HBO was developing an animated series based on "The Poor Bastard" that would be produced by Matt and David X. Cohen [1]. This project was abandoned in 2005.