Peepshow
The Cartoon Diary Joe Matt
Drawn & Quarterly
Available: 12/01/03
8.24 x 10.41 · 104 pages
9781896597270
CDN $19.95
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Canadian Title
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For over ten years Joe Matt has been notorious in cult circles for the embarrassing frankness with which he reveals his distressing habits and predilections. Utterly shameless and completely self-absorbed, Joe Matt writes with an exhibitionist's enthusiasm for his favorite subject, himself.
The first incarnation of Peepshow was these one-page strips in which Joe shows off virtuosity for shocking self-revelation. He is an immature,womanizing, cowardly, cheap, porn freak. He also has crack comic timing and a remarkable gift for (self) caricature.
The books of Joe Matt provokes this confession from guys over beer:
Oh my god, he's just like me. I think those things but I never say them because my girlfriend would leave me.
This diary collection made Joe Matt the hero he is today.
Born in 1963 in Philadelphia, Joe Matt currently lives in a rooming house in Toronto where he spends most of his time editing his treasured collection of nature films" and amassing Frank King's entire forty-year run of "Gasoline Alley" in its original daily newspaper form. Occasionally, he finds time to produce his comic book series, "Peepshow" the first six issues which have been collected in the book "The Poor Bastard.""
