HAW!

by Ivan Brunetti

"[Brunetti is] a darkly funny, uncompromisingly nihilistic cartoonist." - The Chicago Reader "So caustic its impossible to ignore. Brunetti is amazingly ambitious, both in his misanthropy and his literacy." - Spin Haw! is the first book by the notorious Ivan Brunetti, creator of the cult-favorite comic book series, Schizo, likely the most riotously misanthropic and self-loathing comic book ever published. Haw! contains 96 pages of blackly humorous gag cartoons, which Brunetti describes as "each one less morally excusable than the next." Trust us, this is no Dilbert or Far Side. Also included are several four panel-strips and a page of "Party Jokes" that are sure to make even the dullest wit the life of the party. Fashioned after the once-ubiquitous digest-sized cartoon men's mags from the 1950s, Haw! is sure to be a popular conversation item and party favorite for years to come.

Genres: Comics, Humor, Cartoon, Graphic Novels, Comix

Paperback

First published October 15, 2001

About the author

Known for his dark humor and simple, yet effective drawing style. Brunetti's best known work is his autobiographical comic series Schizo. Four issues have appeared between 1994 and 2006. Schizo #4 won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic of the Year in 2006.


He has also done numerous covers of The New Yorker.

Reviews

[Chadwick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brunetti, in this collection of seriously, SERIOUSLY, FOR REAL I MEAN SERIOUSLY twisted cartoons somehow manages to mine the vast potential richness and poetry of the single-panel gag cartoon. These comics are glorious, the best of them have the self-contained perfection of an early Kinks song or Donald Barthelme short story. Not for your grandma, and hide it from impressionable children, but do carry it around on the bus, wearing a fake mustache as you read it, and cackle at Brunetti's glorious misanthropy.

[Aaron Esthelm · Rating 1 out of 5]

this can shift depending on factors but like first reactions. gross. vile no thank you

[Al McCarty · Rating 4 out of 5]

More amazing than that Brunetti actually brought these horrible, disgusting, thoroughly repugnant “gags” into being, is that this slim (thank god!) volume is meant to be filed under “humor/ queer studies.”

[Ian Hrabe · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ok, so the cover does advertise that this slim volume contains "Horrible, horrible cartoons" but damn. This is an exercise in pure filth. I love Brunetti's art, and even thought some of these brief, depraved, scatological comics were hilarious, but this book is also the worst.

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

something terrible must have happened to Ivan as a child. and his readers reap the benefits.

[Joseph · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pure hilarity for the hell-bound. Let me just put it this way: The panel about little kids playing 'bortion is one of the least offensive ones here.

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I recommend "Haw!" to people they either thank me and buy a copy for themselves or they never want to talk to me again.

[Arch · Rating 3 out of 5]

extremely un-PC and entirely in bad taste but pretty funny for one read-through. the jokes don't really hold up to re-reading.

[Bill Haun · Rating 5 out of 5]

Laugh out loud funny!

[Heather McCoy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Totally sick in every way, that is to say, genius!

[Eoin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short but definitely without the sweet. This is fucked up humour at its very best.

[Austin Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

This my friends is simply five-star humor all the way. Bank on it.

[Matt Champagne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious. Fun for the whole family.

[Ashley Rivera · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ivan Brunetti is my favorite, without any doubt.

[Bryan Murray · Rating 5 out of 5]

This beautiful book has something to offend EVERYONE!! It is so wonderfully wrong!