Pussey!
| Pussey! | |
|---|---|
 Cover of the hardcover collection | |
| Date | 1995 |
| Publisher | Fantagraphics Books |
| Creative team | |
| Creator | Daniel Clowes |
| Original publication | |
| Published in | Eightball |
| Issues | 1, 3-5, 8-10, 12, 14 |
| Date of publication | October 1989–October 1994 |
| ISBN |
1-56097-186-X
(hardcover) |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Like 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
- ↑ Parille, Ken (1995). "List of Eightball contents". East Carolina University. Retrieved May 10, 2012.
- ↑ "Fantagraphics Books: Pussey!". 1995. Retrieved May 10, 2012.
- ↑ "Mother Jones, Clowes Encounter: An Interview With Daniel Clowes, Dave Gilson". May 2010. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
- ↑ The Comics Reporter, CR Holiday Interview #19 -- Daniel Clowes, Tom Spurgeon, January 2011, accessed May 11, 2012