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Jonny Negron
Picturebox Jonny Negron is one of my favorite current guys in comics or drawing or fine art right now. He's done several comics for VICE and there are more coming up. Picturebox just released a book that serves as an introduction to his work and it's already selling like crazy. I don't know how much I have to explain about Jonny Negron's work. He's best known for drawing fashionable thick women loosely based on ladies he observes in real life. He also does comics, but his thick chicks are what he's getting heat for at the moment. This is a great book and basically an announcement of his arrival for people who weren't Tumblr-savvy. There are almost definitely going to be a lot more Negron books coming out in the future. I just did a really long interview with him, but for now just look at these images and read this short Q and A I did with him.
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I'd say about half is from 2011, the other half is from this year. I notice that there is no written description of you, yet there is a massive photo of you on the back of the book. Do you not want to reveal too much about yourself because the internet makes everyone so knowable?
I work with images and symbols, and I often find words unnecessary. I think people share too much of themselves on the internet. I choose not to talk about my personal life simply because I don't think it's that interesting.


Women don't ask for portraits of themselves or offer to pose for me too often. It happens once in a while though.

Johnny Ryan
FantagraphicsDescribing the plot of this book is pointless but fun. Cannibal Fuckface awakens in a crystalline prison that he can't escape from. His right arm is gone and in its place is a monster parasite, which is also a weapon. It holds his severed right arm in its mouth. Somehow the monster arm creates a new monster slave from CF's severed arm, which frees CF. Then they kill a bunch of people with hexagonal geometric helmets and then they fight some other creatures and then the slave monster is compromised and then the spaceship they're in crashes. Then CF kills some more creatures and then blah, blah, blah. There's no point in trying to explain Prison Pit. You can only experience it to understand it. Start buy buying all of them at once if you haven't yet. If you have the rest then buy this one too. It wears its intentional stupidness and violence on its sleeve while also showing off Johnny Ryan's sophisticated sense of composition and black and white ink prettiness. I love Johnny Ryan a lot. I've interviewed Johnny at least ten times now so this time I interviewed him through text message.
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