The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish

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Marvel Comics artist Scott Koblish (Deadpool, Spider-Man) has been illustrating his own demise for many years in morbidly funny, 4-panel black-and-white comics. He's the one person struck by a comet, suddenly overrun by a pack of baboons, resting under the precarious rock tipped by a single bird, or the target of his daughter's (of course homicidal) teddy bear cometo life. Though it's always Scott on the receiving end, the comics perfectly capture that irrational feeling we all have that everything can go very wrong in one irrevocable, albeit hilarious instant. Slapstick, surreal, and eerily plausible, with extended scenarios and pops of colour throughout, this collection of cosmic reckonings shows that if the end is nigh, at least it'll probably be funny.

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"In four-panel pages he has imagined himself being defenestrated, knocked down in the street, knocked off a mountain, murdered by monkeys, scorpions, cats, aeroplanes, eaten by monster trees and plain common or garden monsters." -- Herald Scotland
"this funny, breezy collection ends up being one of the year's most bizarrely life-affirming reads." -- NPR

Author Bio

Scott Koblish is an Eisner nominated cartoonist, Guinness Book of World Records-holder, and all-around Bon Vivant who has worked on over 500 comic books. His previous projects include The Jet Pack Pets for Disney, The Weapon for Platinum Studios, O.M.A.C for DC Comics, and X-Men '92, Thor, Captain America, Spider-Man, Electra, and Deadpool for Marvel Comics. He is currently drawing Spider-Man/Deadpool. He lives in Los Angeles.