Why I Hate SaturnBy Kyle Baker
1990
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Does this even count as a comic? The words and the art don't really exist in the same space like all other comics do - the drawing are all enclosed by boxes that the text sits outside of - like a kids book almost - except it's not a kid's book because it's all about adult problems and dilemmas and one woman's quiet desperatation to find Mr Right - but well - I guess it's closer to a comic than anything else. Albeit a comic with pretentions to be taken seriously: that wants you to stay in the morning and then phone back the next day. The main character is Anne - she''s neurotic, twitchy New Yorker who works for a magazine called "Daddy-O" (really? yes really) and prone to saying things like "I find my confidence in a bottle." "You mean--?" "Mousse. And plenty of it." - it's so hip you can smell the freshly ground fair-trade coffee beans and so late eighties/early nineties that it will make your teeth hurt. For me - a little bit meh. But at the time a big underground hit - so maybe worth checking out for yourself.
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Further reading: Special Forces, Strangers in Paradise, It's a Good Life, if You Don't Weaken, Embroideries.
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