We got this book in when it was first published... and immediatelly sold out, before we even had a chance to list it here on the site. It's taken us awhile to circle back and get a restock, but now we have and here it is!
Hold onto your hats and get ready for 200+ pages packed with non-stop comics action. Now this is a comic book. If we are to take the introduction at face value, these comics were all drawn by Jasper Jubenvill between the ages of 18 and 21, and he was still 21 when this book was originally published. Given that bit of information, it should come as no surprise that these comics feel especially hormonally charged. He has created a fantastic fantasy world of comics in comics for comics readers. It's a comics, comics comics world and it all centers on Dynamite Diva, who lives up to her moniker, and then some. Jasper's got energy to burn and he's burning it here. He's not wasting time worrying about formal properties, page design or any other niceties, he's just running on intuitive comics power and drawing away. Older readers will be likely to catch a contact high from all this youthful exuberence; an added bonus!
Editor Alexi Zeren states “Freak Buck is a prison for the monsters we build everyday, and the book covers are the cell walls.” This 256 page, (mostly) full color and black & white , 6 1/2" x 9 1/2" hard cover volume is crammed with comics of all sorts fro North and South America and Europe. Starting with a wraparound cover by Alexis Rose (who also contributes a ten-pager), then front and back endpapers by Igor Hofbauer, (who also contributes several comics pieces), title page by Victor Cayro, and an intro page by Josh Bayer, the book then proceeds to present the work of several dozen creators, first and foremost, Marti (RIP)! English language readers who have been hankering for more ever since reading Cabbie, can finally get a chance to read some new work – and its great! Then we have up and coming indy creators like Jasper Jubenvill and Corinne Halbert, along with plenty of creators whose work was previously unfmiliar to us here at Copacetic. Several of these works, it should be stated, are closer to illustration and/or conceptual art than comics, and some are a mix; and, of course, some are staight up comics.. This collection is all over the place! There is also a fairly lengthy, illustrated interview with Longmont Potion Castle. And, yes, there is some graphic sexual imagery (not all that much, but enough to warrant mentioning), and some in-your-face imagery, along with plenty of farout, freaky and hallucinatory imagery.
Recommended for Comics Explorers.
Milkmaid is 40 non-stop pages of hormone-powered, over-the-top, stream-of-consciousness comics from the one and only Jasper Jubenvill. It could be considered Jasper's equivalent of Chester's "The Man Who Couldn't Stop" from Yummy Fur #3, with, of course, Japser's obsessions substituted for Chester's. Here we have a storyline that starts off in a quasi-"normal" setting of Dynamite Diva setting off for a girls get-together at the Purple Elephant Diner, but it gets weird fast and it isn't long before things head over the cliff into disturbing, bizarro-nazi scenario set in an insano-world of a violent military-industrial complex based on and powered by breastmilk- and semen-extraction factories, giant mutant babies, hybrid dog-tanks and a cast of characters to match. The intellectual value-add here is that the over-the-top stream-of-consciousness bores deep into of the psychic structures of the global capitalist system, revealing the pulsing, throbbing unconscious drives that power it. So, quite informative in that regard.
Not for fans of realism or the faint of heart. You have been warned.
