Pussey!

Clowes is a brutal and scathing peek into the insular, pathetic world

of the comic book industry, as seen through the eyes of antihero Dan

Pussey (pronounced "Pooh-say"), creator of the smash superhero comic

"Nauseator." From cradle to grave, Clowes presents the complete saga of

Young Dan Pussey, mercilessly skewering the business and medium of

comics, bouncing from art to commerce to culture high and low. Clowes

not only parodies the superhero genre (notably Stan "The Man" Lee), but

also his own peers, from his publishers and fellow authors at

Fantagraphics to artistic heavyweights like Art Spiegelman (seen here

as "Gummo Bubbleman"). Through it all, Pussey dreams endlessly about

having sex with a woman, but even those fantasies degenerate into

superhero scenarios.