Fungirl the Book
Straight from the desk of Elizabeth Pich (War and Peas co-creater) comes this solo series: FUNGIRL.
Fungirl is a hapless (hopeless) hot mess of a woman crashing through life, leaving chaos in her wake. Although her oblivious antics infuriate her roommate-slash-ex-girlfriend, terrify the teenage skaters she tries to impress, and threaten her every opportunity for employment, Fungirl remains charming, transgressive, and hilarious.
Pich’s cartoonish art is simple and quirky, with clean lines and bold colors. The art transforms potentially graphic scenes of sex and violence into adorably cute, almost sweet, vignettes. Pich renders Fungirl’s particular messiness deliciously palatable, like an inappropriate wedding cake.
This book is hardcover, with a beautiful foil that shimmers wenn you move it, to reveal the title. The fore-edge painting and headband are in bright fungirl red, simply fire.
Praise for Fungirl:
Silver Sprocket has long been my favorite publisher of weird, radical comics and Fungirl is a particularly joyous addition to the catalog. Practicing a fiendish level of honesty, Fungirl (the character) causes abject chaos everywhere she goes, whether that’s reclining in coffins with snax at her job with the local funeral home, or just terrifying school kids on career day. Cartoonist Elizabeth Pich’s humor is at turns wacky, saucy, bleak, and occasionally vaguely re-assuring. So don’t let the phony moral panic of the Free Comic Book Day issue fool you, Fungirl has much more to offer than just dildos on the floor! (Not that there’s anything wrong with dildos on the floor ofc.) All in all, Fungirl is a wonderful slice of alternative ‘komix’ that works to thoughtfully subvert the unfortunate norms of that particular subgenre – all while still proving blissfully funny.
– Adam Karenina Sherif, Comics Beat: Best of 2021
“An outlandish romp past the boundaries of good taste and into dangerously revealing—and truly funny—psychic territory.”
“Hilarious basically from start to finish…. one of the best graphic novels of 2021.”
“Fungirl is a wacky trip through one impulsive act after another resulting in a cartoony, twisted world that I couldn't get enough of.”
—Archie Bongiovanni (Grease Bats)
“No matter what wacky, exaggerated situation Fungirl finds herself in, it somehow still makes you say ‘I've been there, sister,’ though you'd deny it in polite company. She's everyone's most regrettable ex, but the one you got the best stories out of.”
—K.Wroten (Cannonball, The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend is my Girlfriend)
Book Details
- 256 pages in full-color
- Language: English
- Publisher: Silver Sprocket
- Dimensions:
Straight from the desk of Elizabeth Pich (War and Peas co-creater) comes this solo series: FUNGIRL.
Fungirl is a hapless (hopeless) hot mess of a woman crashing through life, leaving chaos in her wake. Although her oblivious antics infuriate her roommate-slash-ex-girlfriend, terrify the teenage skaters she tries to impress, and threaten her every opportunity for employment, Fungirl remains charming, transgressive, and hilarious.
Pich’s cartoonish art is simple and quirky, with clean lines and bold colors. The art transforms potentially graphic scenes of sex and violence into adorably cute, almost sweet, vignettes. Pich renders Fungirl’s particular messiness deliciously palatable, like an inappropriate wedding cake.
This book is hardcover, with a beautiful foil that shimmers wenn you move it, to reveal the title. The fore-edge painting and headband are in bright fungirl red, simply fire.
Praise for Fungirl:
Silver Sprocket has long been my favorite publisher of weird, radical comics and Fungirl is a particularly joyous addition to the catalog. Practicing a fiendish level of honesty, Fungirl (the character) causes abject chaos everywhere she goes, whether that’s reclining in coffins with snax at her job with the local funeral home, or just terrifying school kids on career day. Cartoonist Elizabeth Pich’s humor is at turns wacky, saucy, bleak, and occasionally vaguely re-assuring. So don’t let the phony moral panic of the Free Comic Book Day issue fool you, Fungirl has much more to offer than just dildos on the floor! (Not that there’s anything wrong with dildos on the floor ofc.) All in all, Fungirl is a wonderful slice of alternative ‘komix’ that works to thoughtfully subvert the unfortunate norms of that particular subgenre – all while still proving blissfully funny.
– Adam Karenina Sherif, Comics Beat: Best of 2021
“An outlandish romp past the boundaries of good taste and into dangerously revealing—and truly funny—psychic territory.”
“Hilarious basically from start to finish…. one of the best graphic novels of 2021.”
“Fungirl is a wacky trip through one impulsive act after another resulting in a cartoony, twisted world that I couldn't get enough of.”
—Archie Bongiovanni (Grease Bats)
“No matter what wacky, exaggerated situation Fungirl finds herself in, it somehow still makes you say ‘I've been there, sister,’ though you'd deny it in polite company. She's everyone's most regrettable ex, but the one you got the best stories out of.”
—K.Wroten (Cannonball, The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend is my Girlfriend)
Book Details
- 256 pages in full-color
- Language: English
- Publisher: Silver Sprocket
- Dimensions: