Green, Justin, Spiegelman, Art
Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary

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San Francisco: McSweeney's Books 2009. Hardcover. First Hardcover Edition. JUSTIN GREEN BINKY BROWN MEETS THE HOLY VIRGIN MARY Introduction by Art Spiegelman Published by McSweeney's Books in 2009 First Hardcover Edition. Large 10" x 14" Over-Sized embossed hardcover bound in leatherette with gilt decoration and reproduced artwork. First published in comic book format in 1972 by Last Gasp. New Unread Condition. "This Rosetta Stone of Underground and autobiographical comics or perhaps more appropriately, in this case, confessional comics receives the deluxe treatment it so richly deserves with this beautiful over-sized edition featuring art reproduced directly from the original pages (which had lain in a collector's garage since 1973). The narrative tracks the progress of young Binky Brown from childhood through adolescence, dragging readers into its protagonist's awkward and embarrassing Eisenhower-era world, an existence dominated by bizarre obsessive-compulsive behavior (before the condition was identified as such) flavored with the lad's deeply-indoctrinated, guilt-ridden Catholic fears. Binky's horror at the possibility of his impure thoughts contaminating religious sites and possibly offending and tainting the Holy Trinity and the Blessed Virgin herself (in an incredibly sacrilegious sequence that is downright gut-busting), starts small and slowly manifests into an almost unbearably frank and squirm-inducing waking nightmare. In its depiction of the all-too-familiar youthful confusion over faith and one's burgeoning sexuality, Green's work can be seen as a crisply illustrated, humorously therapeutic indictment of Catholicism that doubles as a session of auto-exorcism. Highly recommended." (Publishers Weekly) CHECK OUT WHAT R. CRUMB HAS TO SAY ABOUT JUSTIN GREEN & THIS BOOK: Justin Green - he’s out of his mind. I love every stroke of his nervous pen, every tortured scratch he ever scrawled. He was among the top storytelling artists of the first wave of underground comics, a darkly humorous social commentator, and the FIRST, absolutely the FIRST EVER cartoonist to draw highly personal autobiographical comics. Binky Brown started many other cartoonists along the same path, myself included. Few have come close to him in revealing themselves in this medium. For me, there’s nothing more enjoyable than the confessions of a tortured soul, if the story is well-told, entertaining, honest, and then funny on top of it. If that’s what you’re looking for, and if you like it in comic book form, Justin Green is the first and the best! ----R. CRUMB. As New

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