Whatre You Looking At? (Collected Angry Youth Comix, volume 2)

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Synopsis This hilarious collection includes several stories featuring Ryan's signature creation, Loady MCGee (and straight-man Synus O'Gynus), a misanthropic, acne-scarred hustler who finds himself in scams that would make Wimpy proud, and responds to almost everything with an endless stream of wisecracks, puns, and X-rated double-entendres, Loady's ridiculous crackpot schemes - opening a brothel staffed by mutant lizards, get-rich quick inventions like the "Pussy Hunter 6000", founding a comic book school, and selling used toilet paper passed-off as new, just to name a few - serve as perfect comic set-ups, and Ryan's art is crammed with visual gags and existential asides that brings to mind the great Will Elder (Mad magazine). Needless to say, this is not politically-correct stuff, nor is it for children.Ryans' in-you-face humour spares no prisoners, as these stories indicate: Hipler, a riotous satire of our "extreme makeover" era and celebrity culture; Islamic Terrorist Spring Break, in which Ryan seemed to be single-handedly trying to counterbalance all of the self-censorship going on in the early post 9/11 media; and Ku Klux Kuties, which tests just how far the usual doe-eyed visual tropes can be taken. The book also includes Ryan's most infamous strip to date, The Gaytriot, which caused a p.c. stir when it was included in The Comics Journal's otherwise sincere and serious Cartoonists and Patriotism volume in 2002.