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Emo Boy #1
Emo Boy, Vol. 1: Nobody Cares About Anything Anyway, So Why Don't We All Just Die?
Poor Emo Boy -- he's unpopular, unloved and has no family. Not only does he need to deal with things like pondering suicide and questioning his sexual identity, but he's also got these emo super powers that only seem to bring destruction and disaster, causing everyone to hate him more than they already do. His first love suffers a head explosion, the football team wants him dead and he got an F in English. No wonder he's so depressed!
176 pages, Paperback
First published November 22, 2006
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About the author
Stephen Emond
13 books152 followersHello, my name is Stephen Emond, or just Steve if you prefer. There isn’t much about that me isn’t be said in this excerpt from the HAPPYFACE page on amazon.com:
About the Author
Steve Emond does not have any superhuman powers, neat tricks, or famous relatives, but he’s a pretty cool guy who can draw. He is the creator of Emo Boy, which ran for 12 issues and two collections, and the comic strip, Steverino. He grew up in Connecticut, where he wrote and directed a public access sketch comedy show that only his grandmother watched.
I’m pretty sure my editor on the book wrote this to mimic my sometimes self-deprecating manner because I don’t remember writing it myself.
Anyway, I’m a creator, I guess you can say. I focused solely on drawing in my youth, wanting to be a comics artist. Not so much the kind I became, I was more interested in superheroes. Starting with Spiderman, which led to the New Warriors, which led me to following Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee, the guys that wound up at Image. I was a huge Image fan until a girlfriend turned me on to indie comics, which read more like the things that went on in my head.
Another thing I drew, that fed into my later love of writing, was a comic strip called STEVERINO. I did STEVERINO from my senior year of highschool, and for about six years after. Even after that, I returned to the strip off and on, the last stretch in ‘06. You can read those comics by clicking the Steverino box at the top of Stephenemond.com. I think STEVERINO really helped me develop as both an artist and a writer. The comic strip is a great way to learn writing, because every strip has a beginning, middle and end to it. It’s short, but you learn a lot in what’s interesting and how to set up and close an idea. I did twenty-five page books every month, three cartoons per page, and sent them to never more than thirty people. I worked through a lot of my own neuroses in those years, but it was a lot of fun.
Feedback for Steverino was generally positive. I won a national contest, Andrew-McMeels/Follett College Store’s STRIP SEARCH: DISCOVERING TOMORROW’S TOP CARTOONISTS TODAY and had my comic printed in a book of the same name. I had three or four local newspaper articles and ongoing dialogues with a few syndicate editors. There wasn’t really any hook, though. It was just me and my thoughts. They liked the art, they liked the writing, they thought it was charming, but you couldn’t sell it.
Eventually I had the idea for EMO BOY, which was “what if this emo kid had superpowers, but they were completely destructive and he was too emo to use them anyway?” It was a joke at first but my girlfriend at the time urged me to go on with it. I did a mini comic, ashcan style – 8 1/2X11 pages folded down the middle and xeroxed. In it, Emo Boy joins a garage band, falls for a pretty girl, kisses her and explodes her head in a fit of emo-nerves. The band is ready to beat him down when he comes up with a hit emo song about the experience.
I sent the comic to SLG Publishing, because honestly, who the heck else would publish it? In the meantime, I had so much fun with it that I kept making the books. I did four more issues, without the emo powers, just as a comedy comic about an emo kid and his happy-go-lucky friend Maxine. About eight months after I mailed the book to SLG, I got an email from Dan Vado asking if I was still looking for a publisher. Indeed, I was! I sent him the new issues to show how the art and writing had improved, although Dan did recommend giving him the powers back, as it lent the series a feeling of suspense, not knowing what was going to happen next.
EMO BOY ran for twelve issues. It started strong, but as is the case with most indie comics, sales slipped to a point that it wasn’t cost-effective to continue printing each issue. I was left with the option to do it as a digital comic, or to do a series of graphic novels. I decided to take some time off.
Durin
About the Author
Steve Emond does not have any superhuman powers, neat tricks, or famous relatives, but he’s a pretty cool guy who can draw. He is the creator of Emo Boy, which ran for 12 issues and two collections, and the comic strip, Steverino. He grew up in Connecticut, where he wrote and directed a public access sketch comedy show that only his grandmother watched.
I’m pretty sure my editor on the book wrote this to mimic my sometimes self-deprecating manner because I don’t remember writing it myself.
Anyway, I’m a creator, I guess you can say. I focused solely on drawing in my youth, wanting to be a comics artist. Not so much the kind I became, I was more interested in superheroes. Starting with Spiderman, which led to the New Warriors, which led me to following Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee, the guys that wound up at Image. I was a huge Image fan until a girlfriend turned me on to indie comics, which read more like the things that went on in my head.
Another thing I drew, that fed into my later love of writing, was a comic strip called STEVERINO. I did STEVERINO from my senior year of highschool, and for about six years after. Even after that, I returned to the strip off and on, the last stretch in ‘06. You can read those comics by clicking the Steverino box at the top of Stephenemond.com. I think STEVERINO really helped me develop as both an artist and a writer. The comic strip is a great way to learn writing, because every strip has a beginning, middle and end to it. It’s short, but you learn a lot in what’s interesting and how to set up and close an idea. I did twenty-five page books every month, three cartoons per page, and sent them to never more than thirty people. I worked through a lot of my own neuroses in those years, but it was a lot of fun.
Feedback for Steverino was generally positive. I won a national contest, Andrew-McMeels/Follett College Store’s STRIP SEARCH: DISCOVERING TOMORROW’S TOP CARTOONISTS TODAY and had my comic printed in a book of the same name. I had three or four local newspaper articles and ongoing dialogues with a few syndicate editors. There wasn’t really any hook, though. It was just me and my thoughts. They liked the art, they liked the writing, they thought it was charming, but you couldn’t sell it.
Eventually I had the idea for EMO BOY, which was “what if this emo kid had superpowers, but they were completely destructive and he was too emo to use them anyway?” It was a joke at first but my girlfriend at the time urged me to go on with it. I did a mini comic, ashcan style – 8 1/2X11 pages folded down the middle and xeroxed. In it, Emo Boy joins a garage band, falls for a pretty girl, kisses her and explodes her head in a fit of emo-nerves. The band is ready to beat him down when he comes up with a hit emo song about the experience.
I sent the comic to SLG Publishing, because honestly, who the heck else would publish it? In the meantime, I had so much fun with it that I kept making the books. I did four more issues, without the emo powers, just as a comedy comic about an emo kid and his happy-go-lucky friend Maxine. About eight months after I mailed the book to SLG, I got an email from Dan Vado asking if I was still looking for a publisher. Indeed, I was! I sent him the new issues to show how the art and writing had improved, although Dan did recommend giving him the powers back, as it lent the series a feeling of suspense, not knowing what was going to happen next.
EMO BOY ran for twelve issues. It started strong, but as is the case with most indie comics, sales slipped to a point that it wasn’t cost-effective to continue printing each issue. I was left with the option to do it as a digital comic, or to do a series of graphic novels. I decided to take some time off.
Durin
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June 20, 2020
I enjoyed some parts.. but I don't know why I read it.. sometimes we all do this right..😛
June 7, 2010
This was hilarious. I love how this blatantly makes fun of Emo bands like Bright Eyes & Weezer. It brought back a lot of memories for me of the ‘trendies’ and their little cliques at the bar when I went to see shows. Emo Boy has powers of emotion that he can’t control and result in him turning into a giant, blowing a girl’s head up and healing some death-door illness. I love how everyone just talks about ‘he’s just so emo’. It’s not an actual emotion, emo is something entirely different. This is, however, very tongue in cheek. I thought it was great. I would read more if I saw them. it’s very silly, but if you know anyone who looks like that annoying Dallas Green guy and constantly whines then you will think this is fantastic!
November 13, 2007
this comic is pure hilarity. "emo boy" pokes fun at himself but also does a fantastic job of defining what it is to be "emo". his emo-kisses blow up girls' heads, turning them into zombies; his emo haikus prompt jocks to commit suicide; he is even quoted in a game of dodgeball as "[taking a hit with the ball] for the women that have been neglected...for feminism." this is a little gem of social anthropology. ...oooh, it hurts!
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May 15, 2009This book was an excellent book for Emos. It was about a boy who was always neglected and didn't have a family. He was always thinking about suicide.. and was unsure of his sexual identity.... and the books describes his emo powers but it ends up making people hate him more.
February 27, 2015
Not what I was expecting.....It went from dreary to comicical and then some super powers that....just didn't fit. I feel as if I am reading a bad emo version of Scott Pilgrim. This book either needs to go the sad direction with the poetry (which I loved) or jokes and super powers.
March 17, 2011
This book is really good. Its about this emo boy who thinks notihng matters in life.He has no feeling nothing.But he finds out there is a meanign to live. People do have feelings. And things hurt
August 4, 2018
I thought this might be fun, cheeky graphic novel but it's hard to follow and so tonally unstable that it's difficult to grasp the point. There's at least some nice commentary on one of emo's primary flaws: masturbatory self-loathing.
October 4, 2019
One and a half stars.
It earned the extra half star just because of the kiss. For what could an emo know about kissing, and surely, a thing as intimate as that would've blown his head off. (Ahmm....)
An okay-ish read.
Wouldn't necessarily recommend, but still
It earned the extra half star just because of the kiss. For what could an emo know about kissing, and surely, a thing as intimate as that would've blown his head off. (Ahmm....)
An okay-ish read.
Wouldn't necessarily recommend, but still
August 25, 2018
I never write these but i really love this book
June 30, 2009
One of the worst thing's I've ever read. Imagine Scott Pilgrim with half the humor and only a quarter of the storytelling abilities.
Or to put it another way: The guy at a party who makes one good joke and continues to riff on it for the rest of the night while people continue to get more and more annoyed.
Avoid. Unless you're in high school. Then you'll probably love it. Five years ago, I probably would have.
Or to put it another way: The guy at a party who makes one good joke and continues to riff on it for the rest of the night while people continue to get more and more annoyed.
Avoid. Unless you're in high school. Then you'll probably love it. Five years ago, I probably would have.
June 14, 2010
I picked this up because I really enjoyed 'Happyface' and wanted to see what else Emond had done. Mistake. I'm not sure who this book is for because it's not funny and there are no real stories and it's kind of hard to follow. I got about halfway through and decided I had too many other books I wanted to read. Sorry, Emo Boy.
October 23, 2008
Such cute drawings and short stories.
He's so emo it's just ridiculous!
That's what i love about it, it's just over the top and not believable but totally believable and heart-wrenching at the same time.
He's so emo it's just ridiculous!
That's what i love about it, it's just over the top and not believable but totally believable and heart-wrenching at the same time.
January 14, 2011
this is a crazy book and i like to read this book over becasue who wants some one to die like that is so dumb but werid and cool some peolpe should read this book its like crazy some will love it but some might not
December 28, 2009
This is a good book. i REALLY enjoyed this :D
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April 26, 2012When i Read the Title i feel awsome and also i think it will be awsome to read this because the title looks awsome.!
December 27, 2012
The funny sabotage trials of an emo boy in school. Some real situations and some funny moments. An enjoyable read.
November 5, 2013
amusing, silly and irreverent. Didn't really get its hooks into me though. Could have done more with the concept in terms of references than modify famous emo bands from the 90s
October 27, 2008
ok. kinda entertaining though, slightly sad and discomfitting.
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