false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg 515861 1 <B>Nihilism and self-loathing scale unprecedented comic heights in this autobiographical collection.</B><BR><BR>A psychiatric case study masquerading a fancy-pants graphic novel, <I>Misery Loves Comedy</I> collects Ivan Brunetti's early issues (no pun intended)&#133; wait, let's rephrase that. <I>Misery Loves Comedy</I> collects the first three issues of the legendary comic book series <I>Schizo</I> in their entirety, as well as a host of miscellaneous flotsam and jetsam from various anthologies, c. 1992-2005. Readers will find the author's unwitting self-caricature as a paranoid, deluded young man intriguingly repugnant and often chuckle-inducing. Besides Brunetti's trademark nihilism, self-loathing, relentless depression, and inchoate, spittle-soaked misanthropy, these earlier comics offer a dollop of scatology and blasphemy for that extra puerile, lowbrow tang. These are comics for those who enjoy witnessing one man's sanity in its final death rattle, swinging its tail from anhedonia to schadenfreude and back again. Also: lots and lots of filthy jokes. 503803 30 5 2007 Misery Loves Comedy total:120|5:35|4:49|3:22|2:8|1:6| 120 459 159 34 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 4 2 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 07:24:01 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 13:59:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 5 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Apr 22 06:03:22 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 06:03:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 4 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 19 23:04:18 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 19 23:13:05 -0800 2007 more...]]> 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 4 0 false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 09:12:52 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 12:24:52 -0700 2009 after the romantics and the realists, after the modernists and the high modernists, after it all has been experienced and passed through, when we find ourselves landing hard on the stony earth of the postmodern, we'll see brune...more...]]> 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 3 0 false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 13:02:27 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 13:21:25 -0800 2009 1
And so opens the cesspool of sex, crime, vitriol and violen...more...]]> 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 4 1 false Mon Jul 16 14:04:54 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 16 14:05:40 -0700 2007 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 4 0 false Sat Feb 07 15:18:14 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 15:22:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 1 0 false Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 12:36:31 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 12:36:31 -0700 2009 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 5 0 false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 19:44:40 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 19:50:17 -0700 2009 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 5 0 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 28 13:22:45 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 28 14:16:02 -0700 2007 Schizo, is one of the most beautiful comics i have ever read. Ivan has some issues for damn sure. His therapist writes the introduction. In the letters page for Schizo 2, R. Crumb asks, "Have you ever heard of Prozac?"...more...]]> 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 0 0 false Sat Oct 24 20:33:49 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 20:37:32 -0700 2009 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 5 0 false Wed Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 14:59:26 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 15:41:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 4 0 false Sat Jul 26 12:21:45 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 21:49:35 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 12:21:45 -0700 2008 Answer Me" where the Goads gleefully cheer on the top 100 s...more...]]> 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 3 0 false Fri Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 17:04:37 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 10 16:30:35 -0700 2008 Misery Loves Comedy is the first three issues of Ivan Brunetti's "Schizo," followed by some supplemental material from years later. If it were not for that supplemental material I'd have given this book two stars instead of three.

"Schizo #1" has some great moments, ...more...]]> 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 1 0 false Sun Feb 03 09:35:26 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 22 10:39:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 5 0 false Sun Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 22:19:50 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 22:54:17 -0700 2008
Despite the title of his comic (Schizo, all four issues of which are collected here),...more...]]> 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 2 0 false Thu Jan 17 04:07:22 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 04:10:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 2 0 false Mon Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 27 07:55:14 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 03 06:53:01 -0800 2008 I admire the totality of his negative visions!. Because it would be true, but it also really doesn't mean anything. ...more...]]> 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 5 0 false Fri May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 22:38:48 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 22:40:04 -0700 2008 515861 1560977922 9781560977926 120 34 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175454485m/515861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515861.Misery_Loves_Comedy 3 0 false Mon Apr 07 20:37:17 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 20:42:11 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=515861