The Poor Bastard

Biographies & Memoirs

Matt,Joe

Arts & Literature

JONATHAN CAPE.

Peep Show #1

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Drawn and Quarterly

For over ten years Joe Matt has been notorious in cult circles for the embarrassing frankness with which he reveals his distressing habits and predilections. Utterly shameless and completely self-absorbed, Joe Matt writes with an exhibitionist’s enthusiasm for his favorite subject, himself.\nThe first incarnation of Peepshow was these one-page strips in which Joe shows off virtuosity for shocking self-revelation. He is an immature, womanizing, cowardly, cheap, porn freak. He also has crack comic timing and a remarkable gift for (self) caricature.\nThe books of Joe Matt provokes this confession from guys over 
Oh my god, he’s just like me. I think those things but I never say them because my girlfriend would leave me.\nThis diary collection made Joe Matt the hero he is today.

Peep Show! the Cartoon Diary of Joe Matt!

Arts & Photography

Kitchen Sink Pr

"A beautiful looking object that is literally packed with great writing. You will want to own this, and return to it again and again." (Tony O'Neill, '3am Magazine')" A very unusual literary magazine for a number of reasons... [especially in] that all the short stories in it are worth reading." (Nick Mamatas, 'The Smart Set') 'The Savage Kick: The Early Years' collects the first four years of the influential - and controversial - literary magazine. Among the extensive 351 page book is an early 2005 interview with Doug Stanhope, a previously unavailable Joe R. Lansdale story, full page sections from 'The Cartoon Diary of Joe Matt', and an extensive and exclusive 2006 interview with Jim Goad. The style is adult, with brutally confessional stories and somehow-even-darker-than-noir tales. Suicide attempts, drugs, alcohol and murder feature heavily in stories that descend into tailspins of self destruction. But it's not all morose despair... with many tales having a strong undercurrent of pitch black humour.The stories are accompanied by beautiful black-and-white art from Richard Watts and Steve Hussy.Full contents:--- 'Renewal' by Dan Fante --- Savage Kick's Exclusive Interview with Dan Fante --- 'Role of a Lifetime' by Mark SaFranko --- 'Tara' by Steve Hussy --- 'The Parks' by Thomas Salter --- 'Deviation' by Anna Caffrey --- 'Red' by Ricardo Daire --- Savage Kick's Exclusive Interview with Joe R. Lansdale --- 'Drive-In Date' by Joe R. Lansdale --- 'Balls' by Tony O'Neill --- 'Toothpick Whore' by Peter Wollman --- Exclusive Interview with Doug Stanhope --- 'Dance of the Seven Dwarfs' by Zsolt Alapi --- Savage Kick's article on great authors --- Savage Kick's Exclusive Interview with Mark SaFranko --- 'Haunting Refrain' by Mark SaFranko --- '2 Days - 2 Nights' by Frank Baron --- Savage Kick's article on comic-book writers --- 'Peepshow' by Joe Matt --- Exclusive Interview with Jim Goad --- 'Overture: Drowning In Shit' by Jim Goad --- 'Wilson' by Steve Hussy --- Savage Kick's Exclusive Interview with Joe Matt --- 'Peepshow: Sexaholics Anonymous' by Joe Matt --- 'Marooned' by Tony O'Neill --- 'Walk on Gilded Splinters' by Megan Hall --- 'Thought Crime' by Steve Ely --- Exclusive Interview with Tommy Trantino --- 'Captain Delicious and the Kid' by Tommy Trantino --- Savage Kick's battle with an online poet --- '3 New Poems' by Dan Fante

The Savage Kick Literary Magazine - The Early Years: Issue #1, #2, #3, #4 (Murder Slim Press XXX)

Literature & Fiction

LANSDALE, Joe R.

Goad, Jim

O'Neill, Tony

Fante, Dan

Stanhope, Doug

Hussy, Steve

SaFranko, Mark

Trantino, Tommy

Literary

Independently published

Peepshow #6

Montreal, CA: Drawn and Quarterly

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.

Drawn & Quarterly Pubns

For over ten years Joe Matt has been notorious in cult circles for the embarrassing frankness with which he reveals his distressing habits and predilections. Utterly shameless and completely self-absorbed, Joe Matt writes with an exhibitionist's enthusiasm for his favorite subject, himself. 
The first incarnation of Peepshow was these one-page strips in which Joe shows off virtuosity for shocking self-revelation. He is an immature, womanizing, cowardly, cheap, porn freak. He also has crack comic timing and a remarkable gift for (self) caricature. 
The books of Joe Matt provokes this confession from guys over beer: Oh my god, he's just like me. I think those things but I never say them because my girlfriend would leave me.
This diary collection made Joe Matt the hero he is today.

Peepshow: The Cartoon Diary Joe Matt

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

This aptly-titled collects for the first time Joe Matt`s compelling and often hilarious storyline chronicling the crucial moments in his miserable life, beginning with his secret lust for his lover`s best friend, and its ensuing devastating consequences. Ongoing troubles with women, an insatiable obsession with pornography...this poor bastard has serious problems, yet unlike the rest of us, he works them out in full public view, allowing us to get closer to him...maybe a little too close!

Joe Matt is justly famed in comix for the embarrassing frankness with which he reveals his personality, life, and obsessions. Disturbingly shameless and self-absorbed, Joe Matt writes about himself, warts and all! And in his new Peepshow collection, titled Fair Weather, he wants to share his suburban 1970s childhood with you. Save the tears, nothing bad ever happened to Joe Matt. That he didn’t have coming. Joe Matt is socked in the stomach! Of course he deserved it! Completely unsentimental, hilarious and strangely endearing.

Fair Weather

This aptly-titled collects for the first time Joe Matt`s compelling and often hilarious storyline chronicling the crucial moments in his miserable life, beginning with his secret lust for his lover`s best friend, and its ensuing devastating consequences. Ongoing troubles with women, an insatiable obsession with pornography...this poor bastard has serious problems, yet unlike the rest of us, he works them out in full public view, allowing us to get closer to him...maybe a little too close!

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