3. Dave Louapre
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Originally Aired on: Dec 13, 2008
So I’m kind of slow to comics. I wasn’t reading comics like I am now, back during the height of it in the late 80’s, early 90’s. A friend of mine introduced me to ‘Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children’ and I was immediately hooked.
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Published by Piranha Press, an offshoot of DC Comics, BSFUC blew me away on all levels. It was high comic literature. There were 30 issues and 2 graphic novels. It was beautifully and sparsely illustrated by Dan Sweetman and written by Dave Louapre. Each issue was a stand alone story, though throughout the series you came to discover most of the issues took place in and around Scaulderville. As writer of BSFUC, Dave Louapre challenged all notions of the comic story format. (Though, was it really a comic?) His writing is eloquent, poetic, dark, clever, hopeful, thought provoking, tear inducing, versatile in style and god damn hilarious. BSFUC is officially my favourite comic, forever and ever, amen. I can no longer count the amount of times I uttered, ‘genius’, while re-reading my collection. And I’m not the only one. Long before I even realized it was a comic, I had the first Mr. Bungle CD with the cover for BSFUC #1~ A Cotton Candy Autopsy. For years Mel Gibson was determined to turn it into a TV series.
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Cleo
Thursday, 27th January 2011 at 10:17 pm
I’m so glad to have found this. The title of the series was stuck in my head recently but I was sad to found that the creators have practically disappeared since the end of the series. I picked my copies up for less than cover price in the back bins of comic book stores in NYC and it always seemed that I was the only one who ever read this title.
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