The Best of Steven: A Collection

by Doug Allen

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Genres: Comics

96 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1998

About the author

American underground cartoonist, illustrator, and musician. Best known for his long-running comic strip Steven, Allen has over the years collaborated with long-time friend Gary Leib on music, animation, fine art, and comics, including the two-man Fantagraphics anthology Idiotland.

Reviews

[Peter Landau · Rating 5 out of 5]

No. So says Steven. He also says, Eat paste! He says more things, of course, in the collected BEST OF STEVEN by Doug Allen, but usually he’s too busy drinking beer. Steven, who first appeared in the late ’70s and continued making the world safe for nihilists into the ’90s in alternative weeklies and comic books, is damn funny, boldly rendered and surreally told. It reminds me of a more negative and hilarious version of Sam’s Strip, which briefly ran in the early 1960s, and was made up of all the old newspaper strips in a post-modern mediation on the form. Steven is like that, self-aware of the panel prison and ink he’s sentenced to, but more absurd. His world isn't in dialogue with the history of comics, it's sui generis. This book is out of print, which is a tragedy of Greek or Shakespearean proportions, because we need Steven now more than ever.

[Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

I actually didn't read this collection - I read a bunch of the comix but they are not listed yet here in Goodreads. HILARIOUS!!!!

[Neal · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my 2nd reading of the series.
Not everyone's cup of tea of course.
It's fun.
Id stuff.
Perfect bathroom reading, which I mean as a compliment.

[StrictlySequential · Rating 4 out of 5]

ISBN 878166246 IS THE MONA ANTHOLOGY- NOT ALLEN