Matthew Thurber: 1-800-MICE

By Matthew Thurber

1-800-MICE is Matthew Thurber's comic book anthropological study of the imaginary city of Volcano Park: a cross between Thomas Pynchon, Robert Altman and J.R.R. Tolkien. Over the course of the story we meet Peace Punk, a punker on the verge of a bourgeois lifestyle; Tom Chief, a beat cop with an identity crisis; and Groomfiend, a daffy creature who leads the narrative. The serial has earned Thurber rave reviews from, among others, cartoonist Ben Katchor, who writes: "Matthew Thurber has singlehandedly revived the Surrealist program of revolutionary politics through dreamwork. What more can you ask for in a comic-book?" This edition collects five issues of 1-800-MICE , plus 48 pages of new material.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0984589260
• ISBN13: 9780984589265
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: PictureBox
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.8" x 8.3"