Synopsis
"Chippendale's . . . obsessively detailed [comics] feel like [they've] been shot straight from his brain onto the page." -Village Voice
Puke Force is social satire written dark and dense across Brian Chippendale's deconstructed multiverse of walking, talking M&Ms, hamsters, and cycloptic-yet-glamorous trivia hosts. In scathingly funny single-page strips that build and build, he takes on social media narcissism, governmental propaganda,...
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16 February 2016
9781770462199Reviews
"... the first masterpiece of 2016."—Tim O’Neil, The A.V Club
"If there’s a single adjective that unites Brian Chippendale’s work as drummer and vocalist for seminal noise-rock band Lightning Bolt and his work as the creator of avant-garde comics, it’s this one: raw. Everything he does has an immediacy and a grittiness that cuts past your defenses and makes you feel anger, sympathy, fear, or joy."—Abraham Reisman, New York Magazine
"Brian Chippendale’s laugh-out-loud, labyrinthine Puke Force is less a story than it is a city – a thriving, pulsing, post-apocalyptic shopping plaza in which the artist’s odd little people live their lives."—Sean Rogers, The Globe and Mail
"Chippendale’s love of language and puns is infectious and he’s one of the few contemporary cartoonists whose artistic originality is matched by the originality of his writing."—Anya Davidson, The Comics Journal
"Puke Force furthers Chippendale's life-long mission to make art that's at once accessible and experimental, and he's succeeded yet again." - Exclaim!
