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The Pain: When Will it End?
Tim Kreider
Social satire in a misanthropic and existential vein, in the grand traditions of Kliban and Steadman.
Fantagraphics
March 2004
On Sale: March 10, 2004
144 pages
ISBN: 1560975687
EAN: 9781560975687
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Graphic Novel
Tim Kreider's cartoons, previously seen only in the
Baltimore City Paper, have attracted a cult following for
their razor-sharp intelligence and unprecedented
viciousness. His manic, spontaneous line, and his eye for
facial expression, gesture, and detail make his cartoons
more than one-shot gags. His humor is both erudite and
puerile, as personally revealing as a drunken blackout and
as politically trenchant as a lone gunman. Kreider's work
has been likened to the foul result of inbreeding between
Ralph Steadman and B. Kliban. The wide range of subject
matter in this collection, from religion and politics to
Nietzsche and pie, from sex and violence to the sheer
pointlessness of it all, can only be suggested by a sampling
of titles: "Breakfast for the Devil," "The Four Press
Secretaries of the Apocalypse," "Belongings of the Deformed
Child," "Learn German While Drunk," and "I'm Sorry I'm So
Horrible." (The collection also includes the unspeakable
"Graveyard Shift at the Pussy Juice Factory.") Kreider's vision of the human condition is of a man
distracted from the vast starship hovering over his city by
a glimpse of a pretty girl's ass; his version of the
existential abyss is a cruddy laundromat with old magazines
spilled on the plastic chairs and the word "FAGOT" scratched
on a dryer; and the only hope or joy he finds in this life
is in jigglin' dem monster juggs or setting a monkey's ass
on fire. You may be ashamed to laugh, but laugh you will.
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