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Squeak the Mouse #2
Squeak the Mouse - Tome 02: Creeps ! Humour ! Porn ! Blood !
Squeak the Mouse 2: "El retorno"¡Terror! ¡Sexo! ¡Carcajadas! ¡Emoción!
44 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1993
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Massimo Mattioli
30 books5 followersMassimo Mattioli (1943-2019) was an Italian cartoonist, illustrator and screenwriter.
Born in Rome, Mattioli debuted in the middle of the 60's with the comic Vermetto Sigh for the magazine 'Il Vittorioso'. After some cartooning experiences in London and Paris, in the early 70's he returned to Italy and created the character Pasquino for the newspaper 'Paese Sera'. He also began a collaboration with the comics magazine 'Il Giornalino', that lasted more than forty years. Therein, he published Pinky (1973-2014), a whimsical and surrealist strip about a pink rabbit reporter.
In 1977, together with Stefano Tamburini and Marco D'Alessandro, Mattioli founded the seminal underground magazine 'Cannibale'. He remained a frequent contributor to both 'Cannibale' and its successor magazine 'Frigidaire' throughout the 80's. In this period, Mattioli adapted his surrealist cartooning style for a mature audience, most notably with the series Joe Galaxy (1979-1983) and Squeak the Mouse (1982-1984). The latter remains his best-known work internationally. A sequel Squeak the Mouse 2 was published in 1992, and a third volume appeared in 2019 in the collected Squeak the Mouse by Coconino Press.
Mattioli was awarded several prizes, including the Yellow Kid Prize at the Lucca Comics Festival in 1975 and the Attilio Micheluzzi Prize at the Napoli Comicon in 2010 and 2011.
As an illustrator, Mattioli worked for advertisement and music album covers. Additionally, he wrote short stories and screenplays for cinema and television.
Massimo Mattioli died in 2019, at age 75.
Born in Rome, Mattioli debuted in the middle of the 60's with the comic Vermetto Sigh for the magazine 'Il Vittorioso'. After some cartooning experiences in London and Paris, in the early 70's he returned to Italy and created the character Pasquino for the newspaper 'Paese Sera'. He also began a collaboration with the comics magazine 'Il Giornalino', that lasted more than forty years. Therein, he published Pinky (1973-2014), a whimsical and surrealist strip about a pink rabbit reporter.
In 1977, together with Stefano Tamburini and Marco D'Alessandro, Mattioli founded the seminal underground magazine 'Cannibale'. He remained a frequent contributor to both 'Cannibale' and its successor magazine 'Frigidaire' throughout the 80's. In this period, Mattioli adapted his surrealist cartooning style for a mature audience, most notably with the series Joe Galaxy (1979-1983) and Squeak the Mouse (1982-1984). The latter remains his best-known work internationally. A sequel Squeak the Mouse 2 was published in 1992, and a third volume appeared in 2019 in the collected Squeak the Mouse by Coconino Press.
Mattioli was awarded several prizes, including the Yellow Kid Prize at the Lucca Comics Festival in 1975 and the Attilio Micheluzzi Prize at the Napoli Comicon in 2010 and 2011.
As an illustrator, Mattioli worked for advertisement and music album covers. Additionally, he wrote short stories and screenplays for cinema and television.
Massimo Mattioli died in 2019, at age 75.
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July 1, 2022
More of the same - really graphic sex and violence - everyone who dies becomes a zombie. Nothing really wrong with this; but after you see the same character die numerous times (and then their zombie gets killed again) it kind of gets boring. If you like this sort of thing then you will really like this book!
November 7, 2022
You would think that the original Squeak the Mouse said all that needed to be said. Yet here we are with a sequel. It's pretty much more of the same: Cat vs. Mouse action with heaps of explicit sex and gore, all in Mattioli's inimitable cartoony style and pacing.
I'll give Mattioli this: he is inventive. The basic idea of Squeak the Mouse could be encapsulated in a single page. Mattioli sustains it for two entire volumes. It's a tribute to his creativity that it never gets boring.
If you liked the first book, you'll probably like this one. If you didn't, this won't change your mind.
I'll give Mattioli this: he is inventive. The basic idea of Squeak the Mouse could be encapsulated in a single page. Mattioli sustains it for two entire volumes. It's a tribute to his creativity that it never gets boring.
If you liked the first book, you'll probably like this one. If you didn't, this won't change your mind.
February 25, 2018
the madness continues !!!
January 11, 2025
Mattioli continues his depraved twist on Tom and Jerry with another series of short strips. Squeak the Mouse 2 is as well drawn and crafted as the original volume, though the novelty is a little lost at this point. The stories themselves continue to be funny in their patented juvenile and grotesque way, but perhaps lacking the freshness the original set of strips had. It's still plenty fun to flip through Mattioli's vision of Italian horror flicks filtered through the aesthetic of a children's animated series, so you can't go wrong with this one if you enjoyed the first set of strips. Sharp cartooning in a 12 panel grid with vibrant colors makes this a gorgeous collection of comics, even if the stories themselves are a bit narrow in their variety.
August 8, 2020
Se o rato assassinado e regressado para assombrar o gato assassino foi o grande protagonista do primeiro volume, aqui os papéis invertem-se. Regressado à vida, o rato depressa despacha o gato, vingando-se finalmente. Mas desta vez é o gato que regressará para se vingar com extremo prejuízo, numa sequência de violências progressivamente exagerada. Tudo contado no formato episódico que caricatura o estilo narrativo dos cartoons e comics infantis.
January 3, 2025
After reading the first volume of Squeak The Mouse I was very much looking forward to the second and more of Mattioli's writing. This comic offers a fairly good sequel to the original few issues, though it's mostly just a reversal of it. It's still quite funny and wonderfully over the top, though like most sequels it fails to reach the height of the original. Still recommend if you're a fan of the first.
7.5/10.
7.5/10.
May 21, 2019
More or less the same as the first volume with a bit of a twist before the end.
October 10, 2014
La tapa promete...
¡Terror! (cumple o no según que acepción se tome)
¡Sexo! (metele que esto sí cumple...)
¡Carcajadas! (estas sí que no las encontré; alguna sonrisita a lo sumo...)
¡Emoción! (otra palabra lo suficientemente amplia como para decir que cumple o no según a qué tipo de emociones se refiera; si son positivas, casi te diría que no)
...así que un tomo muy cumplidor que digamos no me pareció. Quizás hace 20 años esto tenía ciertos elementos de rebeldía que hoy veo como una burda perpetuación de estereotipos.
¡Terror! (cumple o no según que acepción se tome)
¡Sexo! (metele que esto sí cumple...)
¡Carcajadas! (estas sí que no las encontré; alguna sonrisita a lo sumo...)
¡Emoción! (otra palabra lo suficientemente amplia como para decir que cumple o no según a qué tipo de emociones se refiera; si son positivas, casi te diría que no)
...así que un tomo muy cumplidor que digamos no me pareció. Quizás hace 20 años esto tenía ciertos elementos de rebeldía que hoy veo como una burda perpetuación de estereotipos.
November 28, 2014
Tapa medio mojada y marcada, de una edición zafable cuyo contenido poco vale la pena.
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