Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man

    (La Mano, 2005)
™ and ©2005 John Porcellino

From the Publisher:

When he was a young man, comics artist John Porcellino worked five seasons as an exterminator—a mosquito abatement man—and wrote about his on-the-job experiences in his award-winning, self-published magazine King-Cat Comics.

Now, La Mano collects all the Mosquito Abatement stories that first appeared in King-Cat, 1989-1999 (man of which have been rarely seen before), as well as over thirty pages of new material done especially for this volume.

From the raw, spontaneous, punk-inspired energy of the early strips to the gentler, more reflective lyricism of the later ones, Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man chronicles John’s difficult path from a nihilistic belief in the meaninglessness of life to a deep respect for the world as is, and an acceptance of his place in it.
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