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It's different from his other books as it's more bite-sized though the topics are great. "Peepshow" being his earliest works, they show how he started out writing tiny panelled one-pagers and slowly developed into a more confident artist/writer trying different styles, larger panels, longer stories until by the end of the book Joe is putting together pages and pages for a narrative rather than relying on the one page format. The strips chronicle his neuroses about masturbation (something readers of his other books would know only too well), his troubled relationship with his girlfriend Trish, his obsession with saving money, comics, as well as snapshots from his past at high school, art school, summer jobs, his family, former girlfriends, and how he came to meet Chester Brown and Seth. Joe Matt collects pages of his early comics work from when he started in 1987 up to 1991.

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For Peepshow, he has been nominated for four Harvey Awards: for Best New Talent in 1990 and for the Award for Humor in 1991, 1992, and 1993.Īlso, despite his view on coloring as a task that merely "pays the bills," Matt was nominated for a 1989 Harvey Award for his coloring work on the Batman/Grendel series He has received recognition for his work in the comics industry. for a book that most likely will not be released as single issues, but rather a self-contained book." Matt has stated that "I'll soon be writing / drawing about L.A. A collection featuring Peepshow #11-14 titled SPENT was released in June 2007. The most recent issue of Peepshow, #14, went on sale November 1, 2006. Please feel sorry for me and buy the book when it comes back into print in January 2007." Joe Matt has later stated, "Yes, HBO was interested in making a series based on The Poor Bastard, but they came to their senses and changed their mind. In 2004, it was reported that HBO was developing an animated series based on "The Poor Bastard" that would be produced by Matt and David X. Peepshow is part of a self-referential universe that includes Matt's contemporaries Chester Brown and Seth, all of whom have included each other in their books and none of whom have appreciated the label. As with these artists, Joe Matt's work frequently involves soliloquies "to camera". Joe Matt's work on Peepshow is part of the autobiographical comics genre, kickstarted by the confessional stories of Harvey Pekar and Robert Crumb.

His work is published by Canadian publishing house Drawn and Quarterly. He is the author of the autobiographical comic Peepshow, in which he examines his inadequate social skills, his addiction to pornography and the lingering effects of his Catholic upbringing. He currently lives in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Matt lived (illegally) in Canada from 1988 to 2002. In addition to his cartooning career, he is known for his large collection of vintage Gasoline Alley comic strips. He started drawing comics in 1987 and is best known for his autobiographical work, Peepshow.