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The first story recounts young Eichhorn's discovery of "Mad" magazine, an event that so altered his childhood consciousness that he was compelled to vomit. Eichhorn's life-long anti-authoritarianism seems to emerge from the experience. The book moves on to tales of Eichhorn's days as a high...
In the mid-sixties Eichhorn discovers LSD and begins a period of odd jobs and wandering around. One remarkable story tells of a college trip to a mental home while tripping on acid. Each of the patients is brought out like a freak show, ending with the man who wouldn...
Part of what makes these highly entertaining stories so readable is their presentation in comix form. Eichhorn, who doesn't draw, was smart enough to hire the best cartooning talent at a time when alty comix were beginning to really blossom. Consequently, the artists read like a who's who...
Pulitzer-prizewinning novels don't usually get comic-book tie-ins, but with Michael Chabon's comic-themed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, the move makes sense. The Escapist (Dark Horse Comics), a new quarterly anthology series, collects stories starring the novel's Houdini-like superhero. The first...
BOOKS: A novel dares us to fall for a misanthrope; art-world tales are back, and the subtext is sex 61