Big Black Thing (Colin Upton’s…)

(Starhead, 1994)
©1994 Colin Upton

Colin Upton’s “Big Thing” books for Fantagraphics were something of a prank carried to the level of obsession. That four-issue series had long since been cancelled when the joke began anew with Big Black Thing, published by Seattle Washington’s Starhead Comix.

Inside this Big Black Thing you’ll find socialist turtles, ornery bus riders, and the mystery of the foreign money found under the cushions of the couch. Funniest of the bunch, however, are the goofy Hotxha the Albanian and the straitlaced but cheerfully homicidal Happy Ned. Of course, there’s much more, all rendered in Upton’s clear, slightly whimsical art style. To find out about it, you’ll have to open a Big Black Thing for yourself.

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