Wow!  Fantagraphics really did Joe right with this edition of the complete collected Peepshow.  This 464 page hardcover collecting all 15 issues of the comic book series is crisply printed on the perfect paper stock, with covers matching their original glossy stock on the earlier issues, and cardstock on the later issues.  Then it finishes up with an afterword by Diana Schutz that is just what the collection needed for an appropriate closure: a personal recollection that is equal parts historically informative, intellectually incisive and heartflelt.  This collection literally couldn't be any better.  Kudos to Designer C Hwang, the production head Ben Horak, and editors Sammy Harkham and Eric Reynolds.

All that is said presuming a familiarity with this series and Joe Matt, the long time cartoonist and member of the Torotoninan Three Mustketeers of Comics and Cartooning™ along with Chester Brown and Seth, each of whom depicted the others in their comics beginning in the late 1980s and then through the 1990s (more or less).  For those unfamliar with Joe Matt's work, Peepshow, as the title suggests, maintains a special focus on Matt's sexual fantasies* (highly inappropriate, largely politically incorrect – especailly by today's standards – and uncontrollable [by him, at least]) and the unfortunate impacts these had on his life, and on those close to him, as well.  It's pretty unflinching, and more importantly, it's good cartooning; but it's definitely problematic work, and certainly not for everyone.  Joe Matt left our earthly realm in 2023, but this collection ensures that his pen and ink self will be around for a long while to come.

And we've now posted a preview gallery up on the Copacetic Tumblr, HERE.

* There is, however, a middle section that consists of recollections of his (relatively) innocent prepubescence.