Stray Toasters [Paperback]

Bill Sienkiewicz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2003

208 pages, full color interiors with color cover, squarebound. Published by Graphitti Designs in 2003, ISBN 0-936211-99-7.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Graphitti Designs (2003)
• ASIN: B000EWIYCK
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,108,432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliance squared!, June 15, 2006

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Krista K (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stray Toasters (Paperback)

Sienkiewicz won a Kirby Award for his work on 'Electra Assassin,' but his art is fairly avant garde for the comic scene. 'Stray Toasters' came out in the 1980s, and even if it never gained mass appeal, it deserves to be a cult favorite. Sienkiewicz does all of the artwork and writes this series. He actually does the covers as oil paintings instead of drawings to be filled in by a colorist, and you'd swear many of the panels on the inside are also painted. And his art is amazing - it runs the gamut from psychotic and blood splattered to portraiture perfection with lots of interesting stops in between. But don't get this just for the art - he also provides a great story dealing with psychology and serial murders (while we've all seen enough of these tropes in movies and TV lately, he nonetheless did something original with it). Excitingly enough, there's a rumor that this may come out as a movie, so look for a reissue as a marketing tie-in and let capitalism actually provide something beneficial for a change.

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Artwork; Interesting but Somewhat Confusing Storytelling, January 17, 2009

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J. Cavacini "cuddler of underdogs" (Coplay, PA Corporate States of America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stray Toasters (Paperback)

i bought the first issue of this from a former friend for the art alone. i was never into traditional comic art. This does not disappoint. The artwork is multiple mediums, but doesn't seem digital.

The story, on the other hand, is dark and funny. It's violent and contains sexual themes and nudity. Not for those under the age of 16. The story might be somewhat inaccessible to most audiences due to it being fantastical (i wouldn't call it science fiction) and being fractured into three story branches that don't necessarily mesh (but this critique is considering "traditional" story telling - i happen to like non-traditional mediums and methods, like this comic).

* Spoiler alert:

the post cards from the demon on vacation on earth to his

family in hell are brilliant!

* End spoler *

If you are interested in exploring some interesting handmade non-traditional comic art with a very odd, dark, perverse, funny but grotesque story that can't be described by any one genre other than "strange," check out Stray Toasters. David Lynch fans might be a good audience for the story, but the artwork might be too garish for them.