PUSSIES Vol. 2
edited by Josh Simmons
($3.00 from Josh Simmons,
www.joshuahallsimmons.com. Also available in the
Poopsheet Shop)
Reviewed by Rick BradfordAround 40 artists focus their attentions on that most frightening and revered female body part. It's a fairly respectful collection (your mileage will vary, of course) but it's not the kind of thing you can leave on your desk at work. (Although, if you should try anyway, I'd be interested in hearing the results.)
My favorite pages in this volume are by El Quesnel, R. Sikoryak, Peter Kuper, Molly Kiely, Billy Mavreas, Paul Lyons and Mike Diana, for a variety of reasons, of course. That short list right there is probably recommendation enough but there's also work by Renée French, Johnny Ryan, Eddie Campbell, Kevin Huizenga, Ariel Bordeaux, Henriette Valium and many others. The contributions range from beautiful to fun to curious, but it's all worth looking at. A fair number of the pages were apparently gathered at comics shows, which means they may be sketches as opposed detailed drawings. In some cases this is disappointing and in others not in the slightest. The production on this is pretty nice: 3-color stencil/xerox cardstock covers and eight of the 40 interior pages are full-color. Good show.
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