Most Popular 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.

Meet Joe Matt, a talented cartoonist with strong ideas about how life should be lived. He makes no apologies and never compromises. Well, almost never. Actually, Joe Matt is a painfully honest man who doesn''t mind admitting - in print, in cartoon form - that he has one or two flaws. Just minor ones. The Poor Bastard is his neurotic, compelling and utterly shameless account of some of the most personal details of his life. With the timing of a stand-up comedian, he leaves no aspect untouched, from the disintegration of personal relationships to the grim realities of life in a Toronto rooming house and his obsession with pornography - or, as Joe prefers, "nature films". Watch as he alienates lovers and friends in a candid and hilarious story about his ruthless quest for a woman who understands him and meets his ridiculous standards. This is Joe Matt: neurotic, compulsive, cheap, self-absorbed - human. And funny.

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.

After a long absence, Matt returns in all his absurdly conflicted, tortured glory. In the tradition of Bukowski and R. Crumb, his tale turns on his disgust with himself and all of humanity, and, like the greats, Matt entertains as he cringes. His paradoxically clean and cheerful art is as likable as his persona is unlikable in this tale of avarice, obsession and masturbation. The episodic story begins in a bookstore, where Matt swoops in on a book he knows his friend, fellow cartoonist Seth, would love; Matt buys the book and then sells it to Seth at an obscene markup. The action moves on to Matt''s latest porn purchases, then stops by a coffee shop, where the author chews over his shortcomings with a third member of their cartoonist gang, Chester. Interposed are memories of childhood and scenes from Matt''s room in a boarding house, where his laziness and disgust with his fellow humans lead him to urinate in the largest jars he can find in order to avoid using the communal bathroom. The title indicates that Matt''s well aware of his entrenched personal issues - but this self-awareness never translates to any kind of epiphany or behavioral change.

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.

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