It's always just a bit admirable when comic creators go to extraordinary lengths to show how fucking awful they can be as human beings. And when it comes to drawing and publishing and promoting comics about how vain and egocentric and selfish and miserly and lustful you can be, Joe Matt always did it best.
For some mad reason, I've gone on a Joe Matt comics binge, and gone back through the Peepshow collection and a few little hardback books he put out, and it has helped to remind me what a complete little shit he was, is and always will be. It's compelling, largely because Matt's art is so nice, but you can be a little more subtle about your obsessions, Joe.
He's not doing much in the way of comics now, but it's genuinely pleasing to see he has found some easy money in art commissions and god bless him, he's been putting them up on his instagram page, where you get to see him do Judge Dredd and Swamp Thing and Popeye and Devil Dinosaur and Batman and Fin Fang Foom.
Most of the jokes still revolve around wanking, but his art is as lovely as ever.
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