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Snake 'n' Bacon's Cartoon Cabaret

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Oh, new taste! This is sublime cartoon Dada, an uncontrollable mixmaster of comic book and pulp fiction cliches, miscellaneous 20th century popular culture, and crazed anachronisms (Leonardo da Vinci inventing "Crunchalicious" snackin' crackers for a group of young hooligans straight out of the "Little Rascals".) Every page delivers the unexpected. I was mesmerized, and my wife was howling with laughter the whole time she read it. Now, most people aren't the type to be reduced to helpless giggles by a cartoon snake and a strip of bacon who say "Ssss!" and "Pat me dry with a paper towel to remove excess grease!", but if you're among the lucky few who are, press that big candy-colored patented One-Click button RIGHT NOW!

Michael Kupperman has created perhaps one of the strangest books ever
with Snake 'n' Bacon's Cartoon Cabaret. For readers unfamiliar with
Kupperman's work, let me clarify. After reading some of these
cartoons, you will not be able to engage any other activity with any
seriousness at all. For example, you may read a strip about
Underpants-on-his-head-man, and then proceed directly to your morning
paper, however, after Underpants-on-his-head-man, you will have an
added insight into how ridiculous things really are and be unable to
take anything Vladimir Putin, and certainly George Bush Junior &
Al Gore, says seriously.

This book is good for a rainy day, its good
for a sunny day in the park. Its perfect for a birthday or an
un-birthday. It's the all purpose book of the season. If I were you,
I'd stock up now and be the first on your block to own it!

When I first heard of Snake 'n' Bacon about a year ago I laughed out loud. I hadn't seen the drawings -- the idea alone tickled me. Now I've seen the art and I'm knocked silly.

Michael Kupperman is a genius. This collection of work is profoundly inspired. He's created superheros the likes of which have never been seen before: Underpants-on-his-head-man; Dr. Slappy; Rip Lazybones and His Futuristic Wonderbed; and Professor Gastropod to name only a few. And superheros aren't necessarily his strong suit. Part surreal, part non-sequitur, all inspired. The humor comes from the concepts, the dialogue, and the art itself.

If you're a fan of humor that lands in the ballpark with Gary Larson, Monty Python, The Onion, Robert Smigel, Smack the Pony, National Lampoon etc., this collection is for you. And for your friends. Do yourself a favor and get it now! You can thank me later.

This book is a work of cartooning genius! Not since the days of George Herriman and Rudolf Dirks has an artist produced such biting wit coupled with superb surreal inkwork. There is a story here entitled "Have You Ever Tasted Adventure In Your Own Bathtub" which has to be the funniest comic strip I have ever seen! I can't recommend this book strongly enough for anyone who is serious about great comics.

I can go on and on about Michael Kupperman. My friends (that have had the honor of reading this book) and I have adapted Snake N' Bacon catch phrases into our daily lives. Such as, "Chee I wish we had a snackin' cracka" (I'm hungry), "Murder Me? Murder You!" (Gee, I'm angry) and also "We're all private detectives now, that's how it works in this crazy, fast paced world of the future!" (We're all private detectives now, that's how it works in this crazy, fast paced world of the future!) I... Just buy the book!

A stunning achievement! One of the best cartoon albums assembled since the storied New Yorker collections of the 1950s. The book displays the wide range of Mr. Kupperman and Mr. Reeves' talents (which by the way, are quite similar, stylistically. At time, I had a hard time differentiating which artist had drawn a particular panel--a testiment to the team's ability to integrate its material). Oh, and did I mention "funny"? Because "funny" also exists in this book! Lots of "funny"! On nearly every page, you will find "funny"! I can't rate this volume any higher!

For those of you who, like me, discovered the work of P. Revess through his occassional appearances in the Zero Zero anthology: this is the same guy. In fact, a couple of the stories in this book were also published in Zero Zero (which were themselves reprinted from other hard to find publications). So if you enjoyed those stories, you'll love this whole collection which is equally surreal and laugh-out-loud funny. For those who haven't read his work in Zero Zero, the reviews below give good descriptions.

The comics are extraordinary, the book binding was disappointing. I guess I originally saw the comic book in an earlier printing and that's what I was expecting. This one is smaller in dimensions, not standard comic size. I am a huge fan of the comics though. Kupperman is so surreal, definitely a unique brand of hilarity.

Mr. Kupperman manages quite a feat with his first collection of comics--the stuff is beautiful, funny, and worthy of repeated viewings. Not since the heyday of RAW or Elles Sont de Sortie have I been so excited about a comic book. Mike's obsessive line drawings are both crude and detailed, full of a horror vacuii (fear of blank spaces) intensity one usually only finds in, you know, "outsider" art. And the same bad jokes are made over and over again, making them even worse and even better each time Snake 'N' Bacon show up saying the same stupid stuff. When's the second collection coming out?

I am a fan of Bill Fitzhugh and as he recommended it I decided to try it.

Black humour, satire, and tongue-in-cheek send-ups on just about everything related to underground comics abound in Kupperman's little tour-de-force. Kupperman is endlessly inventive with weird super-hero ideas, such as "Underpants on his head man." Some of the other strips like Roger Daltry's Sex Diary, Long John Silver's Sex Diary, The Party Sex Blimps, Ozzy Osbourne in the 25rh century, are hilarious.

I like the way Kupperman takes famous people from the past, such as Einstein, Mark Twain, and Poe and reinvents them as superheroes. A lot of the humour in his work comes from that.

A lot of it is more weird than funny, but there is enough truly funny stuff to make it worth reading through the dry patches. To me it's a lot like what Mark Leyner would do if he did comics strips. As Bill Fitzhugh said in his review, a lot of the humour in Kupperman's work comes from the concept itself. And he's a damn good artist and illustrator as well.