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Issue: Misery Loves Comedy #[nn]
Publication Date: June 2007
 
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
On Sale Date: 06/25/2007
Volume: none
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9781560977926
UPC/EAN: 978156097792652495
Price: $24.95 USD
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Content Items: 141 (92 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: MISERY LOVES COMEDY collects the first three issues of the notorious comic book series SCHIZO in their entirity, as well as a host of miscellaneous flotsam and jetsam from various publications, c. 1992-2003.

Some of the material included herin originally appeared, in slightly different formats, in the following publications: THE NIGHT STALKER GOT MARRIED, BIFF PANG POW, CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT, DARK HORSE PRESENTS, SMALL PRESS EXPO, HATE, THE COMMON REVIEW, DIRTY STORIES, GREEN, ZERO ZERO, SPICE GIRLS, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, NEWCITY, IN THESE TIMES, MOTHER JONES, THE IMP, PULSE, TIME DIGITAL, THE NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY MAGAZINE, ON, MEGA-PYTON, THE COMICS JOURNAL SPECIAL EDITION, and THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE.

MISERY LOVES COMEDY © 2007 by Ivan Brunetti. All rights reserved. Published by Fantagraphics Books. Printed in Singapore. First printing: March 2007.
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FlagSchizo #1 published October 1995
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Misery Loves Comedy

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[untitled]

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Pages 2-4 and 177-179
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[untitled]

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Misery loves comedy
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Page 5 title. Page 6 other books by the same author. Page 7 title page. Page 8 sources & indicia. Page 10 notes.
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Contents

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Introduction

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For Ivan, drawing cartoons is his life. It is also completely forbidden and frightening. How can such a thing be?
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Schizo #1 cover

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Zany madcap degenerate filth
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SCHIZO No. 1 was originally published by Antarctic Press in January 1995. The version reproduced here is the first Fantagraphics edition, published in October 1995.
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Schizo #1 contents

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[untitled]

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Should you desire to write me, please do not hesitate to do so...
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A Manifesto, of Sorts

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Gentle reader, Welcome to my universe. My name is Ivan Brunetti, and I'm not an artist, writer, cartoonist, or creative person of any kind.
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Why Every Single Person in the Entire World Could Be Instantaneously Obliterated From the Face of the Planet and I Wouldn’t Turn To Look Even if There Were a Loud Noise or I Hate You. I Hate You All!

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Ivan Brunetti; Valerie Brunetti
Motherfucker!
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My Bloody Anus

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Woah! What's this?
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© 1994 by Ivan Brunetti
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Drink My Piss, Motherfucker

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Say when, motherfucker!
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© 1993 by Ivan Brunetti
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The Square

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Wanna snort coke off my aereolas?
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Ain't She a Cunt?

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Is that your new baby, Jeanette?
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Her Vagina Had Teeth

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Ouch! Quit biting!
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Oops

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Oops
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Grandpa Needs Dildos

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Aw, mom! Do we havta go visit grampa again?
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Please Hurt My Oversized Testicles

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C'mon! Take a sledgehammer and pound my gargantuan balls!
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Dim-Witted Genetic Atrocity With a Big Hard-On

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Mother of shit! My cock's all-a-jitter! I need to score some 'tang but pronto! But how? How?
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Pontiff in My Pants

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Is that a throbbing bulge in your pants or are you just happy to see me?
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Mass Murderers Are Pretty Cool

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It is the primary duty and responsibility of the strong to purge this earth of the weak and stupid, who serve only to waste valuable space!
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Pardon My Sodomy, Son

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C'mon, pops! Fuck me through the ass!
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Ms. Ann Thrope

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God I hope everyone dies of AIDS!
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The Nun With Two Dicks

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You two little fuckers cheated on your religion exam!
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© 1994 by Ivan Brunetti
All characters are © Jim Macchione
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Neal Liszt

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Hey, Neal! 'Sup?
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Don't Even Ask

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It's not what you think.
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Fifty-Pound Clitoris

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You lost it again!
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Yessir, I'm Just Another Completely Screwed-Up Catholic Boy

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Ivan Brunetti; Valerie Brunetti; Jesus Christ
Whoah! Check it out! I can masturbate with my stigmata! Fuckin' cool!
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Please Kill Me!

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Hey, Mac! Put a slug through my brain... Pleeeez!
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The Ivan Ailment Chart

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I overheard quite an amusing conversation in a public washroom recently.
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I Love Girls

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Ivan Brunetti; Gloria Grahame; France Farmer; Elsa Lanchester; Katt Both; Anita Loos; Audrey Hepburn; Sue Lyon; Marlene Dietrich; Claudette Colbert; Liz; Valerie Brunetti
Ghawd! These art fairs get lamer and stupider every year! I don't know HOW I get talked into going to such n— ulp!
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"...And I Have Elaborate Torture Plans for All of Them"

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Ivan Brunetti; Randy Sanders; Ned Vidoje-something; Dennis Bots; Jon "Chino" Nasella; Marty Hoffner
Yeah, I got picked on A LOT when I was a kid...
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Date Rape

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L'il Reactionary
"Date rape" is a myth, a cruel hoax devised by a bunch of stupid, whiny, puritanical, latent-lesbian feminazis.
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Social Darwinism

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Social Darwinism is the only proper philosophy. Laissez-faire capitalism is an intrinsic good. The weak do not deserve to be helped.
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Imperialism

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Imperialism has gotten a bad name from pinko liberal do-gooders. The truth is, Western culture IS inherently superior [...]
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Hrrlfk! 1,784 Things That Make Me Vomit

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Ivan Brunetti; Death
1. The ubiquitous, insincere, "festive," brightly colored decorative touches you see everywhere these days.
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Life is Shit

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Ivan Brunetti; Valerie Brunetti
Laugh, and the world laughs with you... Cry, and the world laughs AT you...
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Six Reasons Why I Wish I Had Been Man Ray

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Ivan Brunetti; Meret Oppenheim; Lee Miller
1. I'd have hung around with the coolest people of the 20th century: dadaists & surrealists.
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Bonus Gag Strip

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OK, but if you couldn't be Man Ray, who ELSE do you with you could be?
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The Schizo Profile

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biography
Ivan Brunetti
Vital statistics: Ivan Brunetti (Uh, the camera adds ten pounds, folks)
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Profile of the author with a photocopy of his driver's license.
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Everything Sucks

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Ivan Brunetti; Valerie Brunetti
All these bills and debts! Life's just too fucking EXPENSIVE! I'll never get out of this hole... NEVER!
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© 1994 by Ivan Brunetti
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Horrifying Early Work

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Stumpy That Lovable Multiple Amputee

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Hey, look! There goes Stumpy!
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10/3
© 1992 by Ivan Brunetti
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Fatso With Titties

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Hey fat-ass! Show us your tits!!!
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10/3
© 1992 by Ivan Brunetti
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Cute and Cuddly Motherfuckers

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I raped your mom last night...
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10/3
© 1992 by Ivan Brunetti
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Barbed Wire in My Piss Groove

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Hey, pal! I'll bet ya a nickel ya can't fit this strand of barbed wire into your piss-groove!
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Abusive, Alcoholic Dad

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Fuckin' brats! It's yer fault that bitch momma of yers left me!
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Neo-Nazi Pup

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C'mon, Rover! Fetch! Watsamatter, boy? Fetch!
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Fuck You

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Fuck You
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Aborted Fetus With a Badass Attitude

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Bartender! Scotch on the rocks! Make it a double!
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"We Wanna Rock"

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The Crack Babies
Shit, man! I need some motherfuckin' crack, or I'll just fuckin' DIE!!
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Despair

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My head will not explode.
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Brutality

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"Curiosity killed the cat."
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Pain

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Fine, thanks. And yourself?
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Misery

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If you break into another chorus of Hey Jude, I swear to God I'm going to kill you!
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Sex

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WHAT?!? Me envy YOUR penis?
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Death

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He started it.
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Revenge of a Purple Garden Hose

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Ivan Brunetti
In junior year of high school, my "honors" english class produced a booklet of poetry (to impress the PTA)...
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Ivan reads a poem by an old classmate, Joe Teller.
From 1996.
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[untitled]

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Hey hey, sexy!
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8 gags.
© 1998 by Ivan Brunetti
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Life's a Shithole

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Guns don't kill... People do
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God Sucks Cock

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Jesus Christ
Jesus loves you
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Air Fuck

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Ha ha ha ha!
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Laff It Up, You Cunts

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Whoah! Sorry... I thought you were someone else.
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Baby Bitch-Boy

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Hello? NAMBLA? Is that 'fuck-toy' position still open?
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Mommy is a Fuck-Pig

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I ran out of maxi-pads, so I'm gonna have to use your fuckin' face...
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Schizo #2 cover

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Every day is a good day to die
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Dear Ivan,E

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Have you given any thought to getting on PROZAC™? I suppose I have to take part of the blame for encouraging this sort of thing in the comics...
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Letters from Robert Crumb (Suave, France), Dan Clowes (Berkeley, California), Peter Bagge (Seattle, Washington), Julie Doucet (Montreal, Canada), Jim Goad (Portland, Oregon), Adrian Tomine (Berkeley, California), Chris Ware (Chicago, Illinois), Joe Matt (Toronto, Canada), Seth (Toronto, Canada), Chester Brown (Toronto, Canada), Bill Griffith (San Francisco, California), Art Spiegelman (New York, New York), Mary Fleener (Encinitas, California), Jim Blanchard (Seattle, Washington), Dave Collier (Saskatoon, Canada), Diana Loevy (New York, New York), Evan Dorkin (Staten Island, New York), Tom Hart (Seattle, Washington), James Kochalka (Burlington, Vermont), Dennis Worden (San Juan Capistrano, California), Dennis Eichhorn (Port Townsend, Washington), Steve Matuszak (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Jim Siergey (Chicago, Illinois), Kaz (New York, New York), David Mazzucchelli (Hoboken, New Jersey) and Jim Woodring (Seattle, Washington). This page also includes the indicia.
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Turn Your Eyes Inside and Dig the Vacuum...

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Ivan Brunetti; Valerie Brunetti; Jesus Christ; Death; God
I hate my life. I hate my job. I hate my hair!
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Self-Caricature, chapter 2 of 18
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Six Suicides

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6 "gags".
© 1995 by Ivan Brunetti
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A Really Bad Day at Work

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Hi, honey... I'm home!
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Ain't It the Fuckin' Truth?

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I wanna DIE!
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Face It: You Suck!

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Daddy?
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Damn It All to Hell

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What an absurd, utterly pointless existence we humans must lead. Pain, suffering, hunger, death, crime, apathy...God, it's all a muddle!
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Go Fuck Yourself

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Ungghh! UUUNNGGHHH!
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Lord of the Maggots

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Say, Bobby! Why did you mutilate yourself 1000 times and then lie in a pit of INSECT LARVAE?
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Mommy Hates You

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Listen, you little punk! I'm sick of your fuckin' bullshit! You lousy good-for-nothing dickhead!
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Deformed, De-sexed, and Bedraggled

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Sniff! Sob! Why did I even have to be born? O cruel fate! I curse - oh no!! Every time I cry, shit comes out of my eye!
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Fuckin' Fatass Loser Thirty-Year-Old Virgin Comic-Book Collector Geek With No Job

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I should clean out the diarrhea that's been in my underwear for 3 days
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At the Shrink

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If I had my life to live all over again, I'd blow my motherfucking brains out.
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Suicide Hotline

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No, no, NO! Listen to me... take the razor blade and cut parallel to your arm, not perpendicular!
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Hanging

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What th---?!? Aw, Jesus Christ, what a rotten kid! What was my good rope!
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Handgun

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I get his room!
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The Spirally Dick

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My "Life" With Ivan "My Wife Hates Me" Brunetti

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Welcome to the Val corner of the "Ival" combo, as our mutual friend "Liz" likes to refer to us.
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Ivan and Valerie / Valerie and Ivan

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Ivan Brunetti; Valerie Brunetti
Here's gloomy Ivan--- He's SO fucking depressing
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4 strips, emulating the styles of "Nancy", "Blondie", "Peanuts", & "Hi & Lois".
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The Incurable Optimist

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Ivey-Wivey
Ivan Brunetti
I said give us all yer cash or we'll gang-rape you — got it?
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If I Were Dictator of the World

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God's not in heaven, and nothing's right with the world.
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Self-Caricature, chapter 3 of 18
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Poems for Kurt

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Ivan Brunetti
All poems were found (by my friend Thad Doria) posted on the Internet in the heady days short after the Kurt Cobain suicide.
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Compilation of poems in reaction to the death of Kurt Cobain.
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Don't Kill Yourself

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Ivan Brunetti
Hey you!
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© 1995 by Ivan Brunetti
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Contributions to Various Periodicals

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Rancy

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Aunt Slutzi, may I go out and play?
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Nancy parody, signed Ernie Bushlapper
© 1997 by Ivan Brunetti
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Peenus

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No! No! No! I will not let you buttfuck me! You always MANGLE my poor ass!
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Peanuts parody, signed Schvantz
© 1997 by Ivan Brunetti
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Whore-Mama

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Hurry up in here, you lazy hippie faggot! I gott take a dump — HOLEEE FUCK! It's huge!
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Momma parody, signed Mell Lezziepus
© 1997 by Ivan Brunetti
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Dennis the Shit

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By the way... I lied. I do have AIDS.
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Dennis the Menace parody, signed Jizzum
© 1997 by Ivan Brunetti
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Family Fuckfest

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Daddy cut a felch-fart!
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Family Circus parody, signed Bil Kunt
© 1996 by Ivan Brunetti
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A Modern-Day Fable

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Cash
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© 1995 by Ivan Brunetti
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Piles o' Fun

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Smelly Ass & Fisty
Jesus H. Fuck! My bunghole is a veritable infenro! Feels like I'm fartin' rocket fuel outta there!
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10,000 Mile Schlong

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Ouch
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"No More Tit-Fucking... You're Ruining My Cleavage."

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No More Tit-Fucking... You're Ruining My Cleavage.
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Special thanks to Mr. Erick Gilbert
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Wannafuck.

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Ivan Brunetti; Valerie Brunetti
MTV blows... Let's see what's on the "Video Juke Box" channel...
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© 1998 by Ivan Brunetti
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Music Brings Us All Closer!

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I'm into the post-rap-neo-dub-skank-metal-pop-punkabilly-funk-core-industrial stuff...
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Schizo #3 cover

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Am I bumming your tip? Good!
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SCHIZO No. 3 has been painstakingly scanned and retouched from a printed copy of the comic book, as the film negatives of the entire issue have been lost and the author foolishly never kept any archival photostats of even photocopies of the original artwork (most of which was sold and/or destroyed long ago).
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Dear Asshole:

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You are so full of shit!
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Letters from Tony Kresich (Chicago, Illinois), Zero Benjamen (Brookline, Massachusetts), David St. Albans (Las Vegas, Nevada) and Rajiv Vaidya (Baltimore, Maryland). This page also includes the indicia.
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Work Equals Degradation

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Ivan Brunetti
All right, okay... Time once again to interact with other human beings... Now then, let's relax and take a deeeeep breath...
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Self-Caricature, chapter 4 of 18
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Baby Dickhead

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Yoo-hoo! Can I have a lock of your hair? Haha!
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© 1996 by Ivan Brunetti
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Queefy

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Mmfffthhfpfrrpfbrrpffrfmmthffp
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© 1996 by Ivan Brunetti
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My Mother, the Choad

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Hey, Joey! What'll you trade me for this rookie Wade Boggs card?
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© 1996 by Ivan Brunetti
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You Smell Like Dog Shit

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Holee shit, kiddo!! You're covered head to toe with severed penises!! What happened, sport?
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© 1996 by Ivan Brunetti
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Well-Hung Wiseacre Hubby

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Ooh, sorry, honey... was that your soup?
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© 1996 by Ivan Brunetti
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Homo Trap: 2012 A.D.

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Ethcuse me, thweetie! Are you a "donut-bumper"?
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© 1996 by Ivan Brunetti
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Gruff but Kindly Old Ass-Huffer

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Okay, boys! Here's $20! Now take a dump into those ziploc bags and give 'em to me!!
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© 1996 by Ivan Brunetti
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L'il Lezz

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Shit! There's never anything good on — Whoa! Hello, hello, hello! It's that Kirk Douglas movie where Lauren Bacall is obviously "bi"! Cool!
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© 1996 by Ivan Brunetti
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Daddy's a Hooker

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Hey, pops! Can I borrow the car tonight? I've got a hot date!
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© 1996 by Ivan Brunetti
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Cuckold Joe

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Say, Joe, buddy... you don't mind if I rape your wife, do ya?
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© 1996 by Ivan Brunetti
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Jiminy Cocksucker

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Blow-job! Twenty bucks! Get yer blow-jobs right 'ere!
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© 1996 by Ivan Brunetti
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Dr. Prick

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Caesarean? Did you say caesarean? I thought you said "abortion"!
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© 1996 by Ivan Brunetti
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Group Therapy

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I'm... uh... traumatized 'cause my dad raped me as a child...
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© 1995 by Ivan Brunetti
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Every Little Boy's Dream

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I hate you, daddy!
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© 1995 by Ivan Brunetti
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Chock Full o' Cunts

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Golly gee gosh willikers! My body has developed a series of randomly growing vaginas!
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© 1996 by Ivan Brunetti
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If Chicks Had Dicks

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Jesus Christ! I hate having my period! My testicles get such nasty cramps!
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© 1995 by Ivan Brunetti
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Movie Night

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Draper Dyke and Captain Boyfuck
Fuck you! Fuck this movie! What a fuckin' piece of shit! This sucks!
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© 1997 by Ivan Brunetti
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Disgusting

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Draper Dyke and Captain Boyfuck
Yeah, then I brutally tore up that five-year-old's asshole with my cock-extender and pissed into his mouth...
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© 1997 by Ivan Brunetti
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Constipation

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Draper Dyke and Captain Boyfuck
Shit, I really hate being constipated!
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© 1997 by Ivan Brunetti
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Politics

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Draper Dyke and Captain Boyfuck
What a world... I am so fucking sick and tired of all this repressive hetero/breeder/white male/patriarchy bullshit, man!
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© 1997 by Ivan Brunetti
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Drugs Are Funny

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5 cartoons "Junkies Suck", "Harshin' My Buzz", "Fuckin' Baseheads, Man", "Way Too Much Acid", "Someone Gave the Cat PCP" + 1 comic strip "My Pal's on Crack".
...in all the colors of a psychedelic seizure
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Miscellaneous Color Pieces

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There... my screenplay's finally finish — Hey!
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From 2000.
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That Darn Class Struggle

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Yes, yes, Jenkins, I understand... But, you see, when we say 'casual Friday', we don't actually MEAN 'casual Friday.'
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5 gags
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The Future of Entertainment

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The Internet will serve as host to a parasitic population connected by the contagion of communication through infinite web sites [...]
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Chris Ware - The Last Great Cartoonist

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Hmmm... Drawing a pastiche of "ACME" is gonna be tougher than a boiled owl... *TSK*
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Cartoons and comics mimicking the style of Chris Ware.
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The Dancing Queen

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The other italian women in the neighborhood cruelly called her La Ciota ("The Ass").
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Who's Your eBay™ Nemesis?

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"Alf-lover@aol.com."
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NOTE: The term "eBay nemesis" was coined by genius D.G. Clowes of Berkeley, CA.
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How To Stop Telemarketers

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You know all the signs: the inappropriately timed call...
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How Did This Happen?

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Ivan Brunetti
I mean, I'm one of those people who can barely operate a toaster...
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The Flower

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Question Mark

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Ivan Brunetti
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The Thurber Carnivore

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James Thurber; Ivan Brunetti
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22 gags in the style of James Thurber + 2 comics strips "James Thurber • 1934" and "Author's Footnote A.D. 2002".
"The Thurber Carnivore" copyright © 2002, 2007 by Ben Schwartz and Ivan Brunetti.
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The Thurber Scorecard

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Charles Thurber; Mary "Mame" Thurber; James Thurber; Eva Prout; Althea Adams; Harold Ross; Helen Wismer; Rosemary Thurber
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The Night the Writer Fell

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James Thurber; Helen Wismer
Some background: It is 1961 - James Thurber is angst-ridden when his play "A Thurber Carnival" closes.
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32 Drunks

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Ivan Brunetti
Mellow
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"32 Drunks" was originally self-published by the author as an 8-page mini-comic.
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Scenes From a Comic "Con", Chicago 2003

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Holy bargains!
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About the Author

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Ivan Brunetti
Ivan Brunetti was born in a small town in Italy on October 3, 1967.
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