What're You Lookin' At? (Collected Angry Youth Comix Vol. 1)

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by Johnny Ryan The book includes several stories featuring Johnny Ryans signature creation Loady McGee (and straight-man Synus OGynus) a misanthropic acne-scarred hustler who finds himself in scams that would make Wimpy proud and responds to almost everything with an endless stream of wisecracks puns and X-rated double-entendres. Loadys ridiculous crackpot schemes serve as perfect comic set-ups and Ryans art is crammed with visual gags and existential asides that bring to mind the great Will Elder (MAD Magazine). Needless to say this is definitely not politically-correct stuff nor is it for children. Ryans in-your-face humor spares no prisoners as these stories indicate: "Hipler " a riotous satire of our extreme makeover era and celebrity culture; "Ku Klux Kuties " which tests just how far the usual doe-eyed visual tropes can be taken and still make you go Awwww; and Ryans most infamous strip to-date "The Gaytriot " which caused a PC-stir when it was included in The Comics Journals otherwise-sincere and serious "Cartoonists on Patriotism" volume in 2002. Find out why Johnny Ryan is the most acclaimed (and controversial) humor cartoonist to burst onto the comic scene since Peter Bagge (HATE).