Tim Barber just put out an awesome comic book and it looks better than a lot of Fantagraphics and Drawn & Quarterly anthologies which is disturbing because he doesn’t know what he’s doing. Is making these things that easy? Are the experts that bad at their job? In it is an auto-bio comic I did about my parents seeing my first tattoo. I was 18 at the time and it was quite the hullabaloo.
I had secretly told my brother who was only about 5 at the time. He didn’t get what a secret is so as soon as they came back home he said, “I have a secret” and the cat was out of the bag. When my dad made him say it, my brother stood back in horror as my dad fell to the floor having convulsions. He’s not epileptic or anything but he gave himself a seizure. He dropped his six pack and tore out of the room screaming. My mother took off her shirt, kicked off her slippers, and dropped to her knees with her hands clenched in prayer yelling, “Tell me you regret it. Tell me you regret it.” Again and again and again. When my dad returned from running up and down the stairs in hysterics, he wrapped his hands around my neck and started strangling me Homer Simpson style. However, my dad would never strangle me so what he did was he kept his hands about half an inch away from my neck and air-strangled me. Then he said, “Get out before I do something I regret.”
As I walked away my poor brother stood there in awe and fully digested how important it is to keep a secret.
The comic is called Gutter and you can get it here. Holy shit, it’s $70. I didn’t notice that before. Tim, are people going to pay that?
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SING forth to Indu, O ye men, to him who is purified
08.06.09 at 12:10 pm
yeah i know, $70 is a lot, but that is basically how much it costs to print each book, because they are printed one at a time, by order (i don’t make shit on these). but still, i think it’s worth it. It’s 100 pages of amazing comics that you probably wont see anywhere else.. and what’s $70 really? A nice dinner with drinks? try putting a nice dinner with drinks on your bookshelf and see how nice it is in a few weeks.. or, eat some $2 punjabi, drink some tap water and buy a huge comic book.
also, to clarify, this book was put together and edited by Victor Kerlow, not me. And Victor does kind of know what he’s doing.. i think.
08.06.09 at 1:29 pm
too bad about the price. however we do live in generation ‘money for nothing and the chicks for free”.
08.06.09 at 1:31 pm
yeah…good luck getting pussy with a book.
$70 buys lots of date rape drugs my friend.
lots.
08.06.09 at 1:53 pm
I’d pay a king’s ransom to be date-raped.
08.06.09 at 2:45 pm
the book looks amazing!
08.06.09 at 2:47 pm
Goddamn it I agree but you’re not John Doie.
08.06.09 at 2:50 pm
HE’s A SESSION MAN. dude, 70 bucks? why don’t you just use cheaper paper or someshit, put it on newsprint.. we only gonna read the damm thing once or twice. it’s like those heavy ass glossy vice mags I got that are good for nutting more than doing rails on and being heavy to move around.. I prefer my newsies print. gavin, your comics are pretty good what happened to sunday funnies.. I still don’t understand Pip and Norton though
08.06.09 at 3:38 pm
Looks good. “Aw, shit, you missed some good shit” hahaha.
08.06.09 at 3:41 pm
OODA and You
08.06.09 at 3:46 pm
“However, my dad would never strangle me so what he did was he kept his hands about half an inch away from my neck and air-strangled me.”
why did that make me laugh out loud?
08.06.09 at 11:45 pm
Seventy bucks?! Uh?! Still more reasonable than that Kramers Ergot anthology that’s the size of a coffee table and costs the same as a down payment on a Kia. But seventy bucks!?
08.07.09 at 2:34 am
Gavin loves a good vagina
08.07.09 at 8:16 am
That line would make me laugh out loud, too, but that wasn’t the real Zippy on 8/6.
Please, I’m just getting out of multiple personality counseling, don’t send me back to that dark time in my life.
08.07.09 at 9:39 am
“AIR-STRANGLING” ahahahahaha
SEVENTY DOLLARS!?!?!
i ain’t go no money i only got food stamps.
BUT IT LOOKS EXCELLLEEEENTE.
Man oh man whose dick do i gotta air-suck to get a discount.
08.07.09 at 10:36 am
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see
08.07.09 at 10:40 am
TIm Barber is such a special guy
08.07.09 at 11:59 am
It’s not a couch it’s a chesterfield. Come on Gavin, pull it together.
08.07.09 at 6:32 pm
the human wallet feels like it got punched in the nuts when it sees you just ripped out all its guts to pay for a coffee table book of amateur comics. who are we, Viviannne Westwoods?
08.07.09 at 10:47 pm
aight fareal doe, I just watched that Flip thru video up there and at least it looks like a big book. I suppose since my porn is free, my music is free, my movies are free, my tv is free, and my books are usually essentially free via amazon, that I can afford to add this comic book next to drugs sex and alcohol on my list of things I pay for
08.07.09 at 10:51 pm
i never knew there was so much in it!
08.08.09 at 5:01 pm