Take a Joke TP (Angry Youth Comix) - Softcover

Ryan, Johnny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606994646 ISBN 13: 9781606994641

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2011

Synopsis

• Johnny Ryan garnered a considerable following with his one-man humor anthology, Angry Youth Comix. Take a Joke collects many of the best stories from this inimitable series as well as many strips created for the wildly popular VICE Magazine. Unlike Ryan's previous collections, which focused on very short stories, Take a Joke spotlights several of the artist's longest humor pieces to date, notably: "Graveyard Goofs," in which Ryan's hapless antiheroes Sinus O'Gynus and Loady McGee exhume the corpse of the recently deceased Santa Claus as part of a Top Secret experiment, fantasize an orgy with a collection of anthropomorphic condiment bottles (resulting in an unwanted pregnancy), and end up in Hell; "Boobs Pooter's Jokepocalypse," starring a coprophiliac version of Godzilla who destroys the world with hilarious jokes and crazy pranks; and "The World's Funniest Joke," a 24-page masterpiece. All this, plus "The Day The New Yorker Came to Town"!

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.

Review:

“There aren’t many artists in any field who can match Ryan for sheer surreal creativity. His longer strips suggest a filthy hybrid of the Marx Bros. and Monty Python... Ryan’s work is smart, crammed with ideas, and so funny it will melt your retinas.”
- Chicago Reader

“...[T]he adventures start at an outrageousness level that’s over-the-top and go north of there, until they climb higher, then scale a wall, then take an elevator, then an escalator, and finally jump real high. They never, ever come down.”
- Rod Lott, Bookgasm

“Ryan brings his mixture of scatology, sex, and billingsgate to an acme of noxious hilarity...Vile beyond all credence, this stuff reduces its fans to teary, dribbling idiocy, others to nauseated indignation. If you can’t stand Tony Millionaire (Maakies) or the raunchiest of R. Crumb, you’ll hate it. High praise, indeed!”
- Ray Olson, Booklist

“Johnny Ryan is a very funny man.”
- Tom Spurgeon, The Comics Reporter

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1606994646
• ISBN 13: 9781606994641
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Reynolds Eric