Toronto website BlogTO posted a review of Joe Matt’s new graphic novel Spent on Sunday. Unfortunately, they were not big fans of the book:
“Spent" by Joe Matt is a little book with big problems. It’s about a self-loathing, chronic- masturbating, penny-pinching comic book artist who is writing a book about a self-loathing, chronic-masturbating, penny-pinching, comic book artist. And it does a pretty good job of encapsulating everything that is wrong with underground comics.
Ouch. Joe Matt is clearly not for everyone, and sadly not for Ryan at BlogTO. For a more positive look at Joe Matt, I’d suggest taking a look at the recent New York Times article about reprint comics discussed in this earlier post, or the Drawn & Quarterly website.
By the way, BlogTO are jumping the gun a little with their review. Spent is not published until May.
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