http://trashfilmguru.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/comix-month-take-ii-joe-matts-spent/ Bringing 42nd Street Into Your Living Room --- Where It Belongs! Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:07:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://trashfilmguru.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/comix-month-take-ii-joe-matts-spent/#comment-3125 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 16:26:08 +0000 http://trashfilmguru.wordpress.com/?p=1962#comment-3125 Oh yeah, I loved bagge’s stuff back in the 90s, he really captured perfectly the whole essence of the “slacker” youth culture that I, and so many others, were a part of, and reareading that stuff is always an amazingly nostalgic trip down memory lane. The main difference between the two books is that Bagge’s stuff was an exaggerated, if largely accurate, representation of that whole scene, while Matt’s is genuinely autobiogrpahical. You may want to grab Matt’s first collection, “The Poor Bastard,” first, since it covers his 20-something “slacker” years, and then move on to “Spent,” which is more like his 30s/early 40s. Both are really good books, but I must admit that “The Poor Bastard” is the more “fun” of the two.

]]> http://trashfilmguru.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/comix-month-take-ii-joe-matts-spent/#comment-3119 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 02:38:55 +0000 http://trashfilmguru.wordpress.com/?p=1962#comment-3119 I’ll have to check this out. This reminds me of Peter Badge’s Hate. Have you read those?

]]>