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Quit Your Job

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James Kochalka, indie rock hero and comic creator, creates a wonderful tale with Quit Your Job. it follows Magic Boy and his cat, Kitty, as they travel to the north pole. Of course, they only make it around the block, but they still learn a lot on the way. Magic Boy misses the bus and decides to quit his job, finds a magic ring, and Kitty wins a contest. This sweet story, for adults and children whose parents don't mind them reading a few profanities, is a cartoonishly drawn story that you'll fall in love with. it rocks.

If you have ever read James Kochalka you know that he is no average comic book. He is part of what is the new underground, along others such as Tom Hart, Ron Rege Jr and, Scott Mills. In which they abandon the traditional American way of comics, focusing less upon the creation of art and image as parts and focusing, upon creating a comic as a whole.
Kochalka's work is so packed with symbolism and metaphor that I doubt any other comic creator could pull it off with the fluidity and blatant love for life that Kochalka has. And unlike the many of the other comics on my shelf Kochalka's work gets better the more you read it, revealing layers of meaning that normally would have gone unnoticed.

This has got to be my all-time favorite comic book. Kitty, who in one frame emerges from a heap of newly-fallen snow, explains it perfectly: "It's deep". But also funny and beautiful on the surface. I always keep several copies of this book on hand to give it to all my friends.

james kochalka is a magician, dreamer and a cartoonist. of course he's a musician too. it's amazing the amount of magic, dreams and everything else he managed to squeeze into this little book.

James Kochalka's early work on Quit Your Job (while he was still making ends meet as a waiter at a Chinese restaurant) holds up well today!