Best Selling Books by Joe Matt

Joe gives an account of a weekend from his 1970s suburban childhood during which he spends most of his time avoiding chores and cheating his friends.

Presenting the complete collection of Joe Matt''s legendary autobiographical comic book series -- a masterpiece of modern humor.

This aptly-titled collects for the first time Joe Matt`s compelling and often hilarious storyline chronicling the crucial moments in his miserable life, beginning with his secret lust for his lover`s best friend, and its ensuing devastating consequences. Ongoing troubles with women, an insatiable obsession with pornography...this poor bastard has serious problems, yet unlike the rest of us, he works them out in full public view, allowing us to get closer to him...maybe a little too close!

Through the Lens of a Master Cartoonist One Eye is a collection of paired photographs by Charles Burns that captures the strange undertones of a staggering range of objects and locales. From urban and pristine landscapes to flesh and food, the visual combinations are at the same time ambiguously uneasy and starkly coherent. Sandwiched together without room to breathe, the images are given distinctive symbiotic relationships. In some cases they initially appear as a single picture, while in others the shots are drastically dissimilar; regardless, the results are always complimentary. "Random Selection" juxtaposes the small orange square of a color selector card with an appropriately matched peeling sunburn. Random though they may be, Burns''s choices are clearly the product of his unique rationale, carefully arranged into revealing pairs. One Eye is his world digested through a lens, and evidence of the scope of his visual language. D+Q presents One Eye as part of its Petits Livres series: affordable art books dedicated to acknowledging the wide variety of talent within the comics community and beyond.

Spent by Joe Matt Meet the original antihero Joe Matt: a master of a domain that includes more than twenty-three self-edited eight-hour-long videotapes of bootlegged pornography; a penny-pincher who never fails to make a dime off his friends; a chronic masturbator who doesn''t understand why he never has a girlfriend; an obsessive collector frantically searching for the toys of his childhood; a callous son who throws out every gift his adoring mother gives him; a man so lazy that he urinates in a bottle rather than walk to the bathroom. Everyone and everything is fodder for Matt''s autobiographical comics, even having lost the love of his life for documenting his crush on her best friend in the pages of his legendary comic book series Peepshow. Matt''s biggest target for ridicule, however, is himself.Wearing his neuroses and fetishes on his sleeve, he knows he is a jerk and does nothing to hide it. This humiliating honesty has made Matt a comedic genius who has been hilariously and shamelessly chronicling his pathetic existence for close to twenty years.

Joe Matt se dépeint comme un pauvre type, obsédé sexuel, dur au mal, âpre au gain, pingre et jaloux. Il a une copine, Trish, mais passe son temps à regarder les autres filles et à se masturber. Sinon, il retrouve ses amis Seth et Chester Brown au café, pour de longs délires égocentriques...

Epuisé recueille les quatre derniers numéros de Peepshow, le comic book autobiographique de Joe Matt. Ici, le dessinateur touche le fond de son addiction au porno. Il passe des heures et des heures à remonter des scènes de vidéos pornographiques en ôtant tout ce qui le dégoûte : visages, poils et fesses masculines... Du coup, ses amis Seth et Chester Brown proposent qu''il se présente aux Eisner Awards en qualité de meilleur monteur vidéo ! Autre marotte : la collection des strips de Gasoline Ailey par Frank King, de 1920 à 1960. L''assembler lui a coûté un bras...w Épuisé a fait partie de la sélection officielle du Festival d''Angoulême en 2008.

Ce dessinateur américain revient sur ses souvenirs d''enfance dans l''Amérique de la middle-class des années 70 : tunnels sous les palissades, bagarres entre bandes, courses de vélo, relations avec les filles, etc.

Joe Matt est un cartoonist de talent aux idées bien arrêtées sur l''existence et qui ne fait jamais ni excuses ni compromis. Bon, d''accord, presque jamais. En fait, Joe Matt est un type douloureusement honnête que cela ne gêne pas d''admettre -noir sur blanc, sous forme de bd-qu''il a un ou deux défauts. Mineurs. Joe Matt est névrosé, maniaque, radin, imbu de lui-même -humain. Et drôle.