Blecky Yuckerella - Softcover

Ryan, Johnny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560976748 ISBN 13: 9781560976745

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2005

Synopsis

by Johnny Ryan
This is the first collection of Johnny Ryan's weekly comic strip, Blecky Yuckerella, collecting over 100 strips for the first time, filled with his unmistakable blend of politically incorrect gags and social satire.

About this title

About the Author:

Johnny Ryan was born in Boston, MA, and lives in Los Angeles, CA.  He is the co-creator and co-executive producer of the Nickelodeon TV series Pig Boat Banana Cricket.

From Booklist:

The line of bad boys in independent comics stretches back from Tony Millionaire (Maakies), Peter Bagge (hate), and Rick Altergott (Doofus) to sixties undergrounders S. Clay Wilson and, heck, R. Crumb himself. Ryan may be the most upsetting of them all, certainly in his Angry Youth Comix, which brings its mixture of scatology, sex, and billingsgate to an acme of noxious hilarity or, for some, nausea. The four-panel Blecky Yuckerella strips are as gross but, with kid protagonists, not as sexual or foul-mouthed. The body and its, uh, products constitute the primary font of all humor here, even in the relatively tranquil, subtle, downtime strip, "The Graveyard of Hilarious Cliches," for the last of those moribund apothegms is "Clean-up on aisle three!" Occasionally, garden-variety perverseness generates a punch line, as when Blecky, a Shirley Temple-like little girl--with whiskers and trailing flies!--explains that the sight of "a pathetic loser having a really crappy life" compels her to "make his life even crappier!" The strip's humor usually has to do more with crap than with perverseness. Ray Olson
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About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1560976748
• ISBN 13: 9781560976745
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 104