Daydream Lullabies Billy Dogma Experience

by Dean Haspiel

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Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

96 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 1999

About the author

Emmy award winning artist, Dean Haspiel is a native New Yorker who created the Eisner Award nominated BILLY DOGMA, the semi-autobiographical STREET CODE, and helped pioneer personal webcomics with the invention of ACT-I-VATE.com. Dino has collaborated on many great superhero and semi-autobiographical comic books published by Marvel, DC, Vertigo, Dark Horse, Image, Scholastic, Toon Books, and The New York Times, including collaborations with Harvey Pekar, Jonathan Ames, and Inverna Lockpez, and draws for HBO's "Bored To Death," for which he won an Emmy for his contributions to the opening title sequence. Dean is a founding member of DEEP6 Studios in Gowanus, Brooklyn and steeps in psychotronic movies, cosmic electronica, and Jack Kirby pulp.

Photo by Luigi Novi

Reviews

[Brad · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've liked some of Dean Haspiel's comics I've seen on the internet, and was happy to see that my library had this book. His protagonist Billy Dogma is a weird existentialist/socialist riff on the superhero. He runs around with weirdly-powered guns, lacking a secret identity and a mission, save being lazy.
Most of the book is small, 1-5 page stories, so it's quite light reading, but the character's a bit too confusing and out-there for me to love.

[Idleprimate · Rating 5 out of 5]

for lovers of semantics, semiotics and tautology.

funny as all hell, wry, ironic, metasurreal hair on it's chest. if only there was more.

Haspiel's work everywhere is great, but billy dogma really is an experience

[Brady Dale · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Deeds. Not words."
Enough said.