“Simply wrenching… Benjamin Frisch subverts the
BENJAMIN cartoonist
FRISCH
Williamsburg,
and
is
storyteller
Virginia.
He
a from
“Required reading for the coming sanity wars, this story is the stuff of my nightmares…Cute-ify this monstrosity any way you like, Mr. Frisch, I will be in the fetal position weeping, giving you a thumbs up for a job brutally done.” --Paul Hornschemeier, author of Life With Mr. Dangerous and Mother, Come Home
of America’s obsession with the perfect family.” Jessica Abel, author of Out on the Wire and La Perdida
Beloved cartoonist Robert Fun has earned a devoted following for his newspaper
comic
strip, celebrating the wholesome American family by drawing inspi-
the Savannah College of Art and
ration from his real home life…
Design, and participated in the artist
exposing the seedy underbelly
circle-shaped
has
an MFA in Sequential Art from
international
iconography of family cartooning,
but the Fun family bears some dark
residency
secrets.
program La Maison Des Auteurs in Angoulême, France. His work has
As their idyllic world collapses and
appeared on the political satire
the kids are forced to pick up the
site Wonkette, National Public
pieces, can they escape the cycle
Radio, and in the Graphic Canon comics anthologies.
of art imitating life imitating art?
The Fun Family is his first book.
In his debut graphic novel, Benjamin Frisch presents a surreal deconstruction of childhood, adulthood, and good old American obsession.
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