Comments on: Exploding Head Man by Jason Overby

By: Madinkbeard » My Best Comics of 2009

Madinkbeard » My Best Comics of 2009 — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:19:06 +0000

[...] Exploding Head Man by Jason Overby (self-published) [...]

By: DerikB

DerikB — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:47:14 +0000

Definitely a more physical comic Jessica or Solipsist’s Doodles, though perception plays a fairly large role in the story itself here (particular at the end, which I didn’t get into here).

By: Bill Randall

Bill Randall — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:34:05 +0000

Perhaps it’s just because he uses the Sluggo imagery– but I really see Guston in certain of these pages. Whereas in Jessica Overby seemed to be more about perception, these feel quite physical to me. Lots of grotty textures pitched against iconic forms.

Cincinnati’s art museum used to have this great Guston hanging, & I’d get lost in the layers of paint more than the iconography. Overby’s one of the few cartoonists who can do that to me.

By: wcraghead

wcraghead — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:14:20 +0000

Dang I love this book. Overby is great. I love the freewheeling confusion all over the place.