Bales and Sarah Jacklin is but another chance to see Thurber's work manifested as drama right in front of your face. William Horsley, a handmade puppet show and music scene/culture parody, so this adaptation by Carly J. Matthew Thurber (Art Comic, Infomaniacs, 1-800-MICE) Pre-Order Escape from the Great American Novel by.

At the Prints and Multiples Fair earlier this year, there was a performance of 'Groin Wrong' by Matthew Thurber's Mrs. Its Dada gag strip approach and world-building weirdness make it in some ways, an ideal undertaking by the Annex, though exactly how all this'll end up on the stage is hard to predict and will be presumably part of the fun of going. It's a sprawling epic that leaps between the narratives of a number of different characters before drawing them together in unusual ways, depicting life in a vibrant, tense Volcano City set in a fantasy world where trees are sentient, banjo-playing gangsters hire sushi-chef assassins, and both consciousness and identity are highly fluid concepts.Comix artist Matthew Thurber's series '1-800 Mice' (most easily accessible as a collection put out by the now-defunct Picturebox in 2011) focuses on Volcano Park, an about-to-figuratively-blow-up metropolis, drawn in a cartoony, closed-circuit fervidly dashed-off style and full of half-animal, half-human characters mostly in crisis. 1-800-MICE is the culmination of many years of exploration in comics and is hilarious, absurd, thought-provoking, compelling, and pointedly satirical all at once.

As nutty as this all sounds, its a remarkably readable hyper-imaginative ride., As a cartoonist, Thurber's work reveals a tension between complex but traditional narrative structures, boldly avant-garde visual storytelling, and the overall sensibilities of a gag cartoonist. How? By planting fake YouTube videos that insert banjos into historical scenes featuring Highland folk heroes. 1-800-Mice by Matthew Thurber Hardcover Book, 160 pages See Other Available Editions Description '1-800-MICE' is Matthew Thurbers comic book anthropological study of the imaginary city of Volcano Park: a cross between Thomas Pynchon, Robert Altman and J.R.R. One of a bazillion subplots involves an effort to revise history to read that the banjo was created in Scotland. This ain't no stream of consciousness, more like gushing dam-busting river. Talking trees, messenger mice, sinister dentists and hermaphrodite hippies abound. Cartoonist Matthew Thurber, whose previous books include 1-800-MICE (2011) and INFOMANIACS (2014), takes on the art world in his latest book Art Comic, a series of interrelated stories about. Matthew Thurber's weird and wonderful 1-800-Mice is the Gravity's Rainbow-Sherlock Holmes-Professor Sutwell-Inspector Clouseau-Silent Spring of comics., This intricately epic, epically absurd fantasy is set in Volcano Park, a setting that in terms of kooky characters rivals H.R. Mice couriers, man-tree love, sushi-chef assassins, hydro-powered-car chases, propagandist skywriting, a sinister banjo contest, Internet 5.0, and a mystery drug made from dead trees.

1-800-MICE by Matthew Thurber