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...sucks? Tough. Because going forward the reevaluation of personnel will result in significant downsizing - strictly as a cost/benefit analysis correction - resulting in a reduction of opportunities for advancement. Know what I'm talking about? Hutch Owen knows. He knows it's b.s. He's that little guy inside your mind telling you you're wasting your life in a cubicle. He's the one chiding you as you plop down your dough for some stupid new gadget. He's also the star of Tom Hart's scathing new collection, "Hutch Owen: Unmarketable!" (Top Shelf; 180 pages; $15) A devastating satire...
Part of the do-it-yourself generation of young comix makers that include James Kochalka and Jeffery Brown, Tom Hart first introduced Hutch Owen in 1994's self-published "Hutch Owen's Working Hard." Rendered in a blunt scrawl, its freedom from convention and its unusual political and social content made it a memorable debut for those lucky enough to find it. (Both this and other tales later appeared in 2000's "The Collected Hutch Owen.") Since then Hart has worked on other projects but Hutch Owen has continued as his enduring, evergreen character. "Unmarketable" brings together several pieces that...
...Hutch is a bum. His big "entrance" on the first pages of the new book, in a story titled "Aristotle," has him staring through a caf? window, salivating at the sight of an abandoned, half-full coffee mug. He enters, drinks, and complains about it. Setting up to deliver a lesson on Aristotle to his young admirers Owen becomes incensed at the proprietor's suggestion that they buy something. "I don't pay for things," he says. "And I don't work." A stubborn malcontent with bad teeth and a dirty cap, Hutch has dropped out in order to follow...
...Hutch Owen confronts a uncomprehending marketer...
...Usually Hutch finds himself pitted against his bete noir, Dennis Worner, CEO of Worner industries, a multi-national conglomerate. We first see Worner - where else? - presiding over his group of toadying yes-men in a boardroom. He sports a puppet on top of his head as some sort of crazed motivational device. "What is the half-life of your innovation?" he screams, in a perfect parody of corporate newspeak. Hart's musical ear for creating nonsense versions of the aerobicized cynicism of biz language becomes one of the book's biggest pleasures. When Worner later runs into a disguised Hutch...