Take a Joke - Angry Youth Comix Author:Johnny Ryan Comics that make South Park look like Teletubbies!Johnny Ryan?s transgressive masterpiece Prison Pit has been the talk of alt-comics circles for the past year since its debut in the summer of 2009. But before Prison Pit, Ryan garnered a considerable following via his one-man humor anthology (which doubled as a one-man War Against Political Co... more »rrectness) 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, to which Ryan has contributed for years.
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 that makes The Aristocrats look like a Nora Ephron film.
All this plus Cheeseburger Chase, Omletta DuPont, and ?The Day The New Yorker Came to Town?! 128 pages of color and black-and-white comics« less