**"Unvarnished. Punk."-***The New York Times
King-Cat Classix* collects material from the first fifty issues of John
Porcellino's King-Cat Comics as they appeared in self-published,
handmade zines throughout the 1990s. These strips span Porcellino's
dynamic evolution from saturated, punk drawings to his characteristic
refined minimalism, revealing his work as nothing short of a catalyst
that has inspired artists like Chris Ware in the emerging literary
comics scene. In the inky drawings featuring beloved pets, awkward
teenage one-night-stands, and everyday blunders, we see a nascent style
steeped in truth and transparency--one that continues to ring true
today.
Porcellino's mind is spread out on the page, with an uninhibited id
running wildly about dreams and sexual fantasies, not unlike the gritty,
stabbing pen strokes of Julie Doucet. He sketches fragmented moments and
glimpses of interaction that seem to reflect the very manner in which we
process memory: we are made up of a stream of consciousness, captured in
fleeting mental images, and Porcellino externalizes that messy internal
reality. Follow along the path of Porcellino's dynamic evolution and
relish in the inspirational power of this groundbreaking collection.
