Snakepit Gets Old: Daily Diary Comics 2010 - 2012

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

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Eventually you have to accept that it's time to take responsibility. Snake Pit Gets Old sees our hero transitioning from the pants-pooping idiocy of youth to the responsibilities of adulthood. Join Ben as he quits his band, gets a real job, has a kidney stone removed and much more! We see him interacting with familiar characters in some shitty job' at the local tacqueria, or hanging out with a motley assortment of punks at home. In this graphic novel, Ben's three-panel strips are as entertaining as they are real.'

Reviews

Somehow, even in the overwhelming face of the modern world's overpowering doldrums, Snakepit continues to be one of the most entertaining diary strips around. - Brian Heater, Boing Boing

"Ben's shitty comics have created a book that's impossible to put down, with lessons usually reserved for more pretentious art." --Vice Magazine

"Snakepit stands out for the foolishness of the protagonist's life. The endless punk rock shows,
drinking binges, and rotating girlfriends makes life seem both utterly meaningless and yet still there's a power there...or at least an energy of some kind. A little crudely lived, but with gusto, and crudely recorded as little comic strips." --James Kochalka

"Perhaps Snakepit's life is in a rut, but he's basically happy, especially when he has a girlfriend, and what he records simultaneously with his own adventures is a bohemian, or lumpen bohemian, scene healthier and miles less pretentious than, say, Verlaine and Rimbaud's Parisian niche or the Beats' conclaves in Paris and San Francisco." --Booklist

" ... Empathic, generous, and all-around good time of a journal-cum-comic-strip-collection."
-Austin Chronicle

"One of the most amazing graphic novels I've ever shamefully sped through in a half-hour." -Sleaze Grinder

"Ben's comic is the visual embodiment of what I really enjoy about DIY punk. " --Razorcake

Author Bio

Tom Neely is a painter and cartoonist best known for the cult-hit indie comic bookHenry & Glenn Forever, which he created with his artist collective the Igloo Tornado. His art has been featured in galleries in California and New York, in dozens of magazines and literary journals, and on album covers. His debut graphic novel,The Blot, earned him an Ignatz Award and made it onto several of the industrys Best of 2007 lists as well as theComics Journals Best Graphic Novels of the Decade 20002010. He authored the Melvins comic book,Your Disease Spread Quick, a collection of comic strip poems called Brilliantly Ham-fisted, and the painted novel,The Wolf. He lives in Los Angeles. Rob Halford is the openly gay singer of Judas Priest.