For anybody near a de Slegte bookstore — thanks to the internet, this is everybody — here’s a top tip. De Slegte has Zot! — The Complete Black and White Collection: 1987-1991 going cheap, from 25 euros for less than eight. If you want to sample one of the best independent comix of the 1980ties, here’s your chance. Me, I bought it at full price a few years ago already, alas.
If only there was a collection of the original colour run as well, or the 1/2 issues done by Matt “Cynicalman” Feazell. Yes, I have the original issues, but this material is too good to leave smoldering in back issue bins.
Rich Puchalsky
December 9, 2010 at 9:02 pmI re-read Zot! last year and was oddly disappointed. Not that it seemed bad, really, just that it seemed nowhere near as good as I remembered it being from when i read it as it was coming out.
That’s not my usual reaction to something that I once liked. I wonder if Zot! got overtaken by social change in some ways. When I first read it, I remember thinking “Oh, good, he’s actually putting in a gay kid Zot’s age.” This time I thought “He puts in a gay character who never gets to actually be openly gay, and then kills him off? Yeesh.” Normally, in an artwork, the politics isn’t so important, or shouldn’t be, but the cultural politics of troubled youth growing up was a large part of the series.
Cynicalman has held up, though. Because of the art style.