Peepshow: The Cartoon Diary Joe Matt [Paperback]

Joe Matt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2003

For over ten years Joe Matt has been notorious in cult circles for the embarrassing frankness with which he reveals his distressing habits and predilections. Utterly shameless and completely self-absorbed, Joe Matt writes with an exhibitionist’s enthusiasm for his favorite subject, himself.

The first incarnation of Peepshow was these one-page strips in which Joe shows off virtuosity for shocking self-revelation. He is an immature, womanizing, cowardly, cheap, porn freak. He also has crack comic timing and a remarkable gift for (self) caricature.

The books of Joe Matt provokes this confession from guys over beer:
Oh my god, he’s just like me. I think those things but I never say them because my girlfriend would leave me.

This diary collection made Joe Matt the hero he is today.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Born in 1963 in Philadelphia, Joe Matt currently lives in a rooming house in Toronto where he spends most of his time editing his treasured collection of "nature films" and amassing Frank King's entire forty-year run of "Gasoline Alley" in its original daily newspaper form. Occasionally, he finds time to produce his comic book series, "Peepshow" the first six issues which have been collected in the book "The Poor Bastard."

Product Details

• Paperback: 104 pages
• Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly; First Edition edition (October 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1896597270
• ISBN-13: 978-1896597270
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #516,162 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #79 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Publishers > Drawn and Quarterly

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Joe Matt's Angst Ridden Peep Show, April 17, 2000

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This review is from: Peepshow: The Cartoon Diary Joe Matt (Paperback)

Comic artist Joe Matt's first comic strips are collected in this fantastic volume. Included is an intimate look at Joe's nervous world of girl troubles and toilet humor. Joe dicusses his perosnal relationships and how he destroys them, exlains how to move one's bowels with absolute stealth and includes a how-to guide for cheap skates. This is by far some of the best comic strip work out there today, but be warned, Joe Matt is R. Crumb inspired so be ready for this raw peep into Joe Matt's private life.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully Honest, May 15, 2000

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Hawk (Brooklyn,NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peepshow: The Cartoon Diary Joe Matt (Paperback)

At first I wasn't so sure about Joe Matt but he's really grown on me. He's so painfully honest about himself that it's amazing. Especially the story where he beat up his girlfriend. That was shocking that he included it in his comix... most would edit something like that out. He has a wonderful grasp on the stuggles of long-term relationships - and he manages to keep it pretty damn funny at the same time. His more recent comics about his problems(?) with porn are wonderful too. Any man who isn't embarrased to print a 10 page comic of himself dubbing his friends' porno movies is a saint in my book. Wonderful.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Believe it or not , It's all true, March 15, 2004

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michaeljs (Lansdale, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peepshow: The Cartoon Diary Joe Matt (Paperback)

I loved this book. Joe is being more honest than most of you might believe. I grew up in that "small suburb of Philadelphia" directly across that street from Joe, and I have to tell you that the stories are real. It was like reliving my childhood reading Peepshow. That underground fort across the street from 7-11...my older brothers helped build it. He was as germ-phobic, and nerotic in real life as he is in Peepshow.

I am however disappointed that my brothers and I never got a mention in the book.