Porn Basket

by Johnny Ryan

This hardcover brick of a book collects 368 pages from Ryan's hilariously profane sketchbook, as originally seen on Ryan's influential @outlawscumfudge Instagram account (over 100K followers). Certain to have you taking pictures of every page to text to your filthy, like minded friends. Limited to 1200 copies and certain to sell out, so reach for the Porn Basket while you can!

368 pages, Hardcover

Published April 12, 2022

About the author

John F. Ryan IV (born November 30, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American comics creator, writer, and animator. In a throwback to the days of underground comix, Ryan's oeuvre is generally an attempt to be as shocking and politically incorrect as possible.
Ryan started his career self-publishing Angry Youth Comix, a series of eleven mini-comic issues from 1994 to 1998. In 1998, he began showing his work to Peter Bagge, creator of Hate comics, who introduced the material to Eric Reynolds of Fantagraphics. In 2001, Fantagraphics began publishing volume 2 of the series.
Among Ryan's creations there are the comic strip Blecky Yuckerella and the comic book series Prison Pit.
In animation, Ryan has worked as story editor for the Looney Tuness and co-created the Nickelodeon show Pig Goat Banana Cricket with Dave Cooper. Ryan and Cooper have collaborated on a number of comics as well, usually under the pen name 'Hector Mumbly'.
Ryan's illustrations have appeared in MAD, LA Weekly, National Geographic Kids, Hustler Magazine, The Stranger, and elsewhere. Ryan has also done work for clients such as Nobleworks greetings cards, Rhino Records, and Fox TV. His comics have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese and French.

Reviews

[Ruz El · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one is a collection of drawings, some "finished", some appear to be from sketch books. All of them are offensive/transgressive and many of them are probably responsible for Johnny Ryan getting kicked off of instagram at some point. I'm a Ryan fan from the Angry Youth Days and while I miss his narrative work, I do love these kinds of illustrations. some are really funny, others are flat out horrific and it's these latter ones that speak to where we are in society than many of us are probably comfortable with.

This is the kind of book you could flip through within an hour, but I suggest taking it in small doses to really relish the charms.

[Atom · Rating 5 out of 5]

Better than the Bible...

[Laurent De Maertelaer · Rating 3 out of 5]

🤯🤢🤮🙄😦🫣

368 pages from Ryan's pretty sick sketchbook, as seen on his influential and by now banned @outlawscumfudge Instagram account.

[Susannah Breslin · Rating 1 out of 5]

I regret spending money on Johnny Ryan’s Porn Basket. It’s the artistic equivalent of watching a child play with its own feces. The child thinks it’s hilarious; you shake your head. Ryan seems chronically stuck in a reflexive need to attempt to offend, but his work is uninteresting and redundant. I like art that offends; I’ve created some of it myself. But this is merely dull. If you’re an eight-year-old boy, you’ll love this book.

[John “Hoss” · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of Johnny Ryan’s Instagram doodles. These are obscene, offensive, distasteful cartoons and I enjoyed every page. This guy has no concerns with how this stuff will be approached. It’s definitely crude but funny.

[Trey Ball · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every page is an assault on all 5 senses.