Tales Designed to Thrizzle: Volume 1

Product Description Michael Kupperman'sTales Designed To Thrizzle, the smash hit humor comic book of the decade, is now collected into one full-color deluxe hardcover. Tales designed to thrizzle are about Jesus' half-brother Pagus, Private Eye Johnny Silhouette,Murder She Didn't Write, Hercules the Public Domain Superhero, Mark Twain, the Thirties, and more. TheThrizzle tales will make their debut in 2009 on the Cartoon Network'sAdult Swim asSnake 'N' Bacon, which is certain to catapultThrizzle to new heights of popularity. The show, a mix of live-action, puppetry and animation, stars David Rakoff (This American Life), Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live), Kristen Schaal (Flight of the Conchords), James Urbaniak (The Venture Brothers), and Dan Bakkedahl (The Daily Show), and is produced by Kupperman, Robert Smigel (Triumph, The Insult Comic Dog), Scott Jacobson (The Daily Show) and Rich Bloomquist (The Daily Show). From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Picasso's life narrated by a hamburger; pubic hair stencils for men; Bambiffpow Jackson, there's a fistfight in my very name!-and that's just part of the first five pages of this hilarious collection of humorous comics and illustrations. Kupperman has been laffing it up for years via cartoons in theNew Yorker and animation onSaturday Night Live, but his smart, droll, absurdist humor is best displayed in this compendium of the first four issues of the comic of the same name. Kupperman's wit and imagination is only heightened by the stiff, self-conscious woodcut style he often uses for art, although it sometimes bursts out in a blobbier style for such things as the kid-friendly Fireman Octopus. Some stories and characters recur, such as the buddy-cop duo Snake n' Bacon, a snake and a strip of bacon who solve crimes while repeating the same lines, and other characters throw themselves into disaster. The gags pile upon the gags-mock classified ads for Sausage Lad-Yo, Bitch! You look hungry for sausage!-rammed on the same page as a '70s cop-show parody starring Albert Einstein and Mark Twain. The humor never lags in a book that is destined to be a comedy classic and is truly one of the funniest books in years. This hardcover edition adds color and an intro by Robert Smigel to the original comics. (July)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review ?Gaspingly funny.? -Douglas Wolk, The New York Times Book Review?Buy [Tales Designed to Thrizzle Vol. 1]! It's amazingly good.? -Jackson Publick, co-creator of The Venture Bros.?That Kupperman so masterfully plays to and upsets expectation makesThrizzle that much funnier and finer. With stunts such as a Twain & Einstein crime-fighting partnership, Kupperman is all goofball, all the time. But Kupperman's line, even in shaping locomotive-sized garden snails, is weighty. And the weight of five years ofThrizzle, is, well, as formidable as a locomotive-sized garden snail.? -John Reed, Art in America?he first four issues of Michael Kupperman's awesome comedy comics zineTales Designed to Thrizzle have been collected into a single hardcover volume that is a superdense wad of funny, surreal, bent humor... This is weird, funny, Subgenius-esque toilet reading that will keep you very regular.? -Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing?One of the most impressive things aboutTales Designed to Thrizzle is the versatility it shows. Kupperman?s art is instantly recognizable; his drawings are intentionally stiff, and his figures are posed oddly against his backgrounds so everything looks like collaged clip art?a constructivist looks that flirts perilously with high art.? -Noah Berlatsky, Chicago Reader?Michael Kupperman does funny very well?combining fine art skills with hilarious yet deadpan prose.? -Gary Chun, Honolulu Star-Bulletin?Tales Designed to Thrizzle... bring[s] a slick, hyperreal illustrative consistency that amplifies the alrea