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by Lydia Lunch, Nick Cave, Mike Matthews (Artist)

Collection of adult comics by Lydia Lunch & Nick Cave. 40 pages of B&W art by Mike Matthews. Rare title.

Genres: Comics

Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Koch) is an American singer, poet, writer, and actress.

In the mid-'80s, Lunch formed her own recording and publishing company called "Widowspeak" on which she continues to release a slew of her own material from songs to spoken word.

Later, she was identified by the Boston Phoenix as "one of the 10 most influential performers of the '90s", Lunch's solo career featured collaborations with musicians such as J. G. Thirlwell, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Nick Cave, Marc Almond, Billy Ver Plank, Steven Severin, Robert Quine, Sadie Mae, Rowland S. Howard, Michael Gira, The Birthday Party, Einstürzende Neubauten, Sonic Youth, Die Haut, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Black Sun Productions and french band Sibyl Vane who put one of her spoken words into music. She also acted in, wrote, and directed underground films, sometimes collaborating with underground filmmaker and photographer Richard Kern (including several films such as Fingered in which she performed unsimulated sex acts), and more recently has recorded and performed as a spoken word artist, again collaborating with such artists as Exene Cervenka, Henry Rollins, Don Bajema, Hubert Selby Jr., and Emilio Cubeiro, as well as authoring both traditional books and comix (with award-winning graphic novel artist Ted McKeever).

In 1997 she released Paradoxia, a loosely-based autobiography, in which she candidly documented her bisexual dalliances, substance abuse and flirtation with insanity.

Reviews

[Dominick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Comics written by Lydia Lunch and Nick Cave, both solo and in collaboration, with appropriately sleazy art by Mike Matthews, whose work I have seen here and there elsewhere. Rape, violence, self-mutilation, you name it, Cave and Lunch are not shy about transgression--Lunch even moreso than Cave. One of her stories includes a guy getting his head stuck up a woman's (his wife? not entirely clear) asshole, and said guy ending the story roast like a pig, with the woman about to eat his penis. So, yeah, X-rated level content, though there's not really anything titillating about it. There's a certain gleefulness in its deliberate aim to shock, and in its mostly anti-narrative approach to its stories. There's nothing particularly special about it, though. Cave, Lunch, and/or Matthews fans will want to check it out (Cave was the draw for me, and some of it does sound like his mature voice), as may underground fans. but it won't be for all tastes.

[Egghead · Rating 5 out of 5]

americana
warped and deformed; horror
hiding in garbage