Ullman, Robert – Signifying Nothing: The Collected From the Curve 1994-1998

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Signifying Nothing: The Collected From the Curve 1994-1998

I’ve been hoping that Robert would put something like this out. As far as I know his earlier work is out of print, so it’s great to see the early work of someone who I think is going to be a major voice someday, and he’s already pretty damned good right now. He wears his influences on his sleeve in a lot of these strips (sometimes you see Adrian Tomine, sometimes Evan Dorkin, sometimes Dan Clowes, and his art has always reminded me of Jaime Hernandez), but you can see his own voice starting to come through. I sampled one of the more disturbing strips I’ve ever read from this book and I defy any heterosexual male to not feel like shit after reading it. It’s something that we can all relate to, and… well, just read it. The rest of the book is kind of mixed, some good and some bad. More bad than good, and with none of the strips being more than a few pages long, there’s not much time to hate anything anyway. There are only 500 copies of this floating around out there, so you’d better send him $5 soon (contact info above) to get your copy.