7.2 /10 1 Votes
Creator Daniel Clowes Issues 1, 3-5, 8-10, 12, 14 Date 1995 | 3.6/5 Goodreads Published in Eightball Originally published October 1989 Genre Speculative fiction Publisher Fantagraphics Books | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of publication October 1989–October 1994 ISBN 1-56097-186-X (hardcover)
1-56097-183-5 (softcover) Followed by Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron Similar Like a Velvet Glove Ca, David Boring, Ice Haven, Twentieth Century Eightball, The Death‑Ray | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pussey! is a comics serial and graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. It was originally serialized across nine non-consecutive issues of Clowes's alternative comic book Eightball, and was later collected by Fantagraphics Books.
Pussey! tells the satirical story of a comic book artist named Dan Pussey, following him from his childhood years, through his successful career and into aged obscurity. Along the way he lampoons the comics industry as a whole, including direct satires of several creators, such art Art Spiegelman stand-in character Gummo Bubbleman.
Dave Gilson, writing for Mother Jones, called Pussey a "knowing send-up of comic nerddom", and Tom Spurgeon of The Comics Reporter said that "works like Pussey...remind that he may also be its best living practitioner of filthy, blunt satire".