Horror Hospital Unplugged
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (958 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062004344 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Stunning Youthful angst is rarely portrayed as this terrifying.” —LibraryJournalDennisCooper and Keith Mayerson’s boundary-breaking graphicnovel Horror Hospital Unplugged is back in a long-awaited reissue.Crystallizing a primal period of creative experimentation for both Cooper,whose Frisk-era storytelling is at its finest, and Mayerson,whose gritty, unadorned visual style would later explode into color, HorrorHospital Unplugged is a vital piece of underground comics craft. The moody,kaleidoscopic, and sexually charged story of would-be rock star Trevor Machine,and his flirtations with love, fame, homosexual identity, and the disaffectionof youth, is a provocative immersion in world of ambition, confusion, anddebauchery—and an crucial glimpse at the early creative achievement of two culticons.
. teen scene as well as all of popular culture. Dennis Cooper, best known for his transgressive novels of gay teen angst and brutal sexual longing, has adapted one of his early short stories into this large-sized, punked-out graphic novel. Horror Hospital Unplugged is artistic cross-pollination of the highest order: smart, shocking, and always just over the line. The superb, surrealistic drawings by Keith Mayerson bring Cooper's descriptions and dialogue to new heights of demented parody and social commentary; it is if Antonin Artaud and Keith Haring took the wrong drugs and collaborated on a kids cartoon show. Tracing the early career of Trevor Machine, rock star on the rise, Cooper manages to parody the L.A
"Required Reading for Punks, Queers, and Artists" according to MJB. Keith Mayerson lends his vast artistic talent to Dennis Cooper's short story about a fledgling L.A. band and its confused singer, Trevor Machine. Mayerson's art swipes from a range of art and illustration, from symbolism to manga to advertising. The style changes as the story develops and. Eric L. said This was a gift but I read it too.. I love Cooper, I have read nearly everything by him. This was an excellent translation of his story to a graphic novel. Beautiful and disturbing I loved every page.. "Not at all up to Cooper's usual standards." according to Robert Beveridge. Dennis Cooper, Horror Hospital Unplugged (Juno, 1996)One has to wonder whether Cooper has the same morbid fascination for the movie Horror Hospital evidenced by others of my acquaintance. Why else would he name his wannabe-Nirvana characters after a relatively obscure (and not so relative