Mature Readers

384 pages; hard cover; black & white

John Porcellino has long been considered the greatest of all cartoonists, coming from the self-publishing and zine movement of the early ‘90s. His spare approach with words and pictures focuses on the smallest of details, revealing a wealth of meaning and emotion in everyday events that most of us overlook in our daily hustle and bustle. Since 1989, he has released over 65 issues of his self-published comic King-Cat Comics and Stories. This large collection focuses on the first fifty issues, with extensive endnotes, an index, and selections of all the extra ephemera that makes an individual issue of King-Cat its own unique experience — essays, articles, stories, and letters from friends. King-Cat Classix presents an artist who always knew what he wanted to do, demonstrating Porcellino’s confidence and skill as it has grown steadily over the past eighteen years.