Stearn, Ted – Fuzz and Pluck

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Fuzz and Pluck

Strangely enough, I remember reading this book a year or so ago and not liking it much, except for the one page that I scanned here. I don’t know what kind of mood I was in that day, but I was way off. This is a hell of a book. When there are characters that obviously don’t fit (like this chicken and teddy bear) in comics these days, they are usually the only thing odd about that world. Not this place. It looks like a wasteland more often than not and there are all kinds of odd things happening, like a slave auction (instead of prison) and a sentient pile of branches. Wonderfully bizarre stuff, and the sexual tension between the bear and his new owner is funny and creepy all at once. I seem to remember Fantagraphics having a new book of this stuff coming out soon, so keep an eye out for it. This is definitely somebody to watch out for, unless he keeps up this incredibly slow pace. Or maybe it just seems like a slow pace because most of the strips in this book were from 4 years before the book came out…