Hieronymus & Bosch By Paul Kirchner (English Edition)

Product Code: 59616
Hieronymus & Bosch By Paul Kirchner (English Edition)
Hieronymus & Bosch By Paul Kirchner (English Edition)
Hieronymus & Bosch By Paul Kirchner (English Edition)
Hieronymus & Bosch By Paul Kirchner (English Edition)
Hieronymus & Bosch By Paul Kirchner (English Edition)
Hieronymus & Bosch By Paul Kirchner (English Edition)
Hieronymus & Bosch By Paul Kirchner (English Edition)
Hieronymus & Bosch By Paul Kirchner (English Edition)
Hieronymus & Bosch By Paul Kirchner (English Edition)
Hieronymus & Bosch By Paul Kirchner (English Edition)
Hieronymus & Bosch By Paul Kirchner (English Edition)
Hieronymus & Bosch By Paul Kirchner (English Edition)
Hieronymus & Bosch By Paul Kirchner (English Edition)
Hieronymus & Bosch By Paul Kirchner (English Edition)

Hieronymus & Bosch By Paul Kirchner (English Edition)

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A collection of comics by Wally Wood protege Paul Kirchner. Largely wordless strips, occasionally a sign or wall graffiti is part of the gag.

From the publisher:

Meet the medieval miscreant Hieronymus and his wooden duck Bosch. When Hieronymus commits yet another petty crime, things go badly wrong and both are catapulted into a cartoonish version of Hell. There, lakes are made of lava (or, more often, poop) and an army of mischievous spiky-tailed devils bully the inmates and play impish pranks. Despite many gag-filled attempts at escaping this literal hell, Hieronymus and Bosch always end up being the butt of their trident-wielding guards' most humiliating and painful jokes.

This book puts together about a hundred one-pagers filled with hilariously surrealistic and scatological gags by American comic book artist Paul Kirchner. Kirchner drew his inspiration from the medieval depictions of Hell by Dante and Hieronymus Bosch (duh!) as well as from the zany, almost sadistic humor of Warner Bros. cartoons like the Road Runner Show. Some of the stories published in this book originally appeared on the Adult Swim website.

Hieronymus & Bosch also evokes Kirchner's famous comic strip series the bus. However, the bus' main character always got out from the practical jokes played on him unharmed, even if a bit confused. Hieronymus & Bosch's two heroes get burnt by lava, stabbed with tridents, used as a Q-tip by Satan himself, or just covered in a torrent of poop gushing down from above. Yet they carry on, finding fun where they can and refusing to abandon all hope.

« If life often seems boring, repetitive, and even meaningless, it's up to us to convert boredom into fun, to find meaning in our own creative action. The gags and goofs in Hieronymus and Bosch illustrate that there can be fun in failure, that even if we fail we can get up and try, try again. » -- Ed Turner, The Comics Journal

Kirchner, Paul

Condition & Attributes

Very Fine, issued without dustjacket

Publishing Information

Villeurbanne, France
Éditions Tanibis
2018
1st
9782848410494

Physical Description

10.25 inches
8.25 inches
100 pages
color
Hardcover
leather spine, pictorial boards
English

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