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Stickboy

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Renvoyé de son travail, le protagoniste se heurte à des recruteurs sadiques, et autres humiliations bien connues des chômeurs non-qualifiés. Ecoeuré des compromis, il détruit son logement et choisit de devenir SDF. C'est le début d'une plongée dans l'Amérique de la fin du vingtième siècle. Celle des drogués, hippies, punks, gourous, ados rebelles... Mais aussi des businessmen, politiciens, et autres « gagnants » de la société de consommation. Tourmenté et fataliste, Stickboy est obsédé par sa place dans l'univers. Ici, il prend conscience de son statut de personnage aux mains d'un créateur sadique ; là, il croise un insecte qui lui vante les mérites du développement personnel. Mais le voilà qui glisse entre les espaces-temps, et atterrit dans des dimensions parallèles. Il y rencontre son alter-égo, l'odieux Cubeman. Encore plus misanthrope que lui, ce dernier finira avachi sur un trottoir, à insulter les passants, sans jamais se considérer responsable de son sort. Cartoon trash à l'humour cinglant, quête métaphysique jusqu'aux limites de l'introspection, Stickboy est le miroir de son auteur, éternel marginal n'ayant jamais trouvé sa place. Le protagoniste tutoie la folie, meurt, ressuscite, atterrit en prison, subit une apocalypse nucléaire, affronte Dieu en personne... Mais qui blâmer pour ses souffrances ? Son créateur ? La société ? Ou bien son propre cynisme ? À moins qu'il n'y ait aucun responsable, et que le cosmos soit indifférent à ses créatures ? Cette quête de réponses qui plonge notre antihéros en enfer, c'est peut-être simplement celle d'un homme comme les autres, aux prises avec le mythe américain du self-made man.

160 pages, Paperback

Published February 28, 2020

About the author

Dennis Worden

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Dennis Worden started out doing underground comics in 1981, appearing in Robert Crumb’s “Weirdo” magazine and a few punk rock fanzines, such as Flipside. In 1982 he met a guy with an old printing press in his garage and published his first book, “SLUR”. Throughout the 1980’s and 90’s he appeared in various underground/alternative comics, and punk publications, but most importantly, got his own title, “Stickboy”, published by Fantagraphics Books in 1988. In all there would be eight Stickboy books through four different publishers, and several other books, such as Bongo Dick, Pedestrian Vulgarity, Suburban Teens On Acid, and Cruel And Unusual Punishment. Recently Dennis republished most of the old Stickboy books, as well as combining them into an anthology, “The Stickboy Saga”. He also did an expanded version of his 1992 auto-bio comic, “Suburban Teens On Acid“, and compiled a bunch of his early comic work, and other obscenities, into the anthology, “The Floating Skull and Friends”.
Worden had been selling paintings directly to fans of his comics since the mid 1980's, then in 1994 got his first gallery show of paintings at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, the premier “lowbrow” art purveyor and all around cool-as-hell place. He’d show there many more times, and in several other venues around the country. Recently he published a book of his paintings, wood carvings, block prints, and other art, called "Worden - Loser Art". It covers the entire 37 year span of his art career to date, and some earlier work as well.
He also wrote a non-fiction book (not a comic), “The Way Of The Good Hedonist”. It’s a book of philosophy, not a book about hedonism. Similar to what some of the Stickboy books were up to, just way more so, and not quite as funny (though funnier than some realize).

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May 17, 2023
Intelligent mais décousu, avec sans doute une perte d'intérêt dans la traduction et pour la culture française.
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February 9, 2024
Du nihilisme cynique pur qui se transforme en de l'hédonisme, tout ça dans un style underground et minimaliste. Des univers parallèles se croisent de manière complexe et non sans humour.
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