Connective Tissue

by Bob Fingerman

Video store clerk Darla Vogel is fed up, until one of her customers, a precocious home-schooled kid, offers her some of his meat-tinged candies. Darla takes a plunge down the rabbit hole into a surreal world of throbbing, veinous buildings, compulsory public nudity, weird creatures and more. If William S Burroughs, Lewis Carroll, H.P. Lovecraft and Harvey Kurtzman had a mutant lovechild, it might resemble Bob Fingerman's bold new confection, Connective Tissue . Fingerman, a cartoonist and novelist best known for an acclaimed graphic novel ( Beg the Question , a Gen X classic) and an acclaimed prose novel ( Bottomfeeder ), merges the disciplines in Connective Tissue , a genre-bending and medium-mixing work best described as a fully illustrated novella.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

128 pages, Hardcover

First published April 30, 2009

About the author

Recent releases are From the Ashes, a satirical "speculative memoir" set in post-apocalyptic New York (IDW, March 2010) of which The Onion wrote, “As a blitz of astringent satire, an unabashed love letter to his wife, and a love-hate manifesto aimed at the whole human race, From The Ashes is a gem; as an addition to the often-staid canon of post-apocalyptic pop culture, it’s a revelation… A“

In August 2010 my second novel, Pariah (Tor Books), a Pinteresque zombie tale, was released. It rec'd a starred review from Publishers Weekly and an A- from Entertainment Weekly and was Fangoria's Book of the Month selection. The mass market pocket edition came out in 2011.

My most recent release is the deluxe oversized hardcover collection Maximum Minimum Wage, from Image Comics (April 2013), which made Entertainment Weekly's Must List and received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.

Reviews

[Erin · Rating 5 out of 5]

A perfect example of what Bob Fingerman is capable of and evidence of his knack for inner and spoken dialogue. Sometimes wacky, sometimes surreal, sometimes gross but always smart and sharp.

[Rex Hurst · Rating 4 out of 5]

Video store clerk Darla Vogel is fed up, until one of her customers, a precocious home-schooled kid, offers her some of his meat-tinged candies. Darla takes a plunge down the rabbit hole into a surreal world of throbbing, vienous buildings, compulsory public nudity, weird creatures and more. It contained too many pop culture references in my opinion, but it was an enjoyable light read.

[Lindsey Stawiszynski · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was not my kinda book.

[Wayne · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm biased. I like Bob Fingerman. Many years ago, I had him for a store signing, and he's really a great guy. His art is really bizarre, but I really like it. It's not very commercial though and I have a hard time selling his stuff. I'll carry it anyway. The closest artist style- wise that's made it also is Dave Cooper. I really like them both. Back to the book. This is mostly prose, interspersed with art, but still manages to satisfy. He puts his wife Michelle in a lot of his work, she must be pretty special too.I would imagine, I don't know for sure, that his stuff is kind of cultish, and I'm a card carrying member. When I spell check the word cultish, it suggests codfish. Ha Ha !

[Derek · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh. The book had potential - I enjoy some of Bob Fingerman's word use in the text - but it seemed that every time it was on the verge of doing something interesting or inspired, it veered in the wrong direction. Not terrible, but not that great.

[Chris Estey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bob Fingerman is insanely talented. Need to start picking up his new pamphlet too but may wait till it's collected. Here is a guy that finds sex in the apocalypse.

[Dana Jerman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fingerman juxtaposes one page of text per page of art. His wit is super sharp just as the drawings are the opposite: bubbly and heavily penciled. It's "almost" a love story!