Stupor: A Treasury of True Stories

by Steve Hughes, Gina Reichert (Illustrator), Kamil Antos (Illustrator)

For the last 16 years, Steve Hughes has been listening to people he meets in bars, diners, hardware stores and job sites talk about their lives. He writes and then publishes the stories they inspire in his zine Stupor . Their stories of infidelity, drunkenness, disappointment, and, sometimes dumb luck are told like they're being spoken from the barstool next to you. A Treasury of True Stories is a colorful collection of 14 issues designed by top artists in a unique collaboration that depicts a place and its people like no other publication of its era.

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Gjacobsen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Endlessly enjoyable short stories pulled from years of Hughes' "Stupor" zine featuring rich layers of visual embellishment made by possible by the contributions of his talented friends. Something to keep going back to. Hughes treats all of his subjects - real people whose stories he retells in his own way - with love and depth. While he strips them of their real identity (largely to protect them), he builds up their vulnerability, their fragility, through the comic mishaps that they often bring upon themselves.