Skeleton Party: Please Listen to Me Vol. 1

by Mattie Lubchansky

Collecting the comic Please Listen to Me from 2010 to early 2016, this collection includes reader favorites “Not-All-Man,” and “Trash Planet,” as well as some of Matt Lubchansky’s best comics originally running on The Nib like “Great Moments in Peaceful Protest History.” This book also collects the minicomic stories “Nature Show” and “Hair.”

Paperback

Published June 1, 2016

About the author

Mattie Lubchansky is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Queens, NY. Her work has appeared in The Nib, New York Magazine, VICE, Eater, Mad Magazine, Gothamist, The Toast, The Hairpin, Brooklyn Magazine, and their long-running webcomic Please Listen to Me. They are the co-author of Dad Magazine (Quirk, 2016), and the author of The Antifa Supersoldier Cookbook (Silver Sprocket, 2021), Boys Weekend (2023, Pantheon), and Simplicity (2025, Pantheon).

Reviews

[Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

At one point, it felt like I was bookmarking every other page to show my spouse so we could laugh together. Skeleton Party is a great collection, highlighting everyday absurdities, grotesque things in the natural world [Note: I still cannot believe that rat kings are a real thing.], and internet culture.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Subtract a star because I think it takes a 100 pages to really elevate this above lots of webcomics, particularly ones that lampoon online discourse, or what passes for discourse. But then somewhere 100 pages in, the whole thing just explodes into apocalyptic absurdity, cynical despair, deranged optimism, exasperated ridicule and sharp social commentary. Volume 2 cannot come soon enough.