{"product_id":"take-a-joke-9781606994641","title":"Take a Joke","description":"Johnny Ryan's transgressive masterpiece \u003cem\u003ePrison Pit\u003c\/em\u003e has been the talk of alt-comics circles for the past year since its debut in the summer of 2009. But before \u003cem\u003ePrison Pit\u003c\/em\u003e, Ryan garnered a considerable following via his one-man humor anthology (which doubled as a one-man War Against Political Correctness) \u003cem\u003eAngry Youth Comix\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eTake a Joke\u003c\/em\u003e collects many of the best stories from this inimitable series as well as many strips created for the wildly-popular Vice magazine, to which Ryan has contributed for years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Unlike Ryan's previous collections, which focused on very short stories, \u003cem\u003eTake a Joke\u003c\/em\u003e spotlights several of the artist's longest humor pieces to date, notably: \"Graveyard Goofs,\" in which Ryan's hapless antiheroes Sinus O'Gynus and Loady McGee exhume the corpse of the recently-deceased Santa Claus as part of a Top Secret experiment, fantasize an orgy with a collection of anthropomorphic condiment bottles (resulting in an unwanted pregnancy), and end up in Hell; \"Boobs Pooter's Jokepocalypse,\" starring a coprophiliac version of Godzilla who destroys the world with hilarious jokes and crazy pranks; and \"The World's Funniest Joke,\" a 24-page masterpiece that makes \u003cem\u003eThe Aristocrats\u003c\/em\u003e look like a Nora Ephron film.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e All this plus Cheeseburger Chase, Omletta DuPont, and \"The Day \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e Came to Town\"!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781606994641\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2011 pg. 51\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johnny Ryan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52051664765109,"sku":"9781606994641","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b2e62921-baed-4f42-b164-32031365df8c.jpg?v=1764047593","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/take-a-joke-9781606994641","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}