{"product_id":"take-a-joke-johnny-ryan-9781606994641","title":"Take a Joke","description":"Johnny Ryan's transgressive masterpiece \u003cem\u003ePrison Pit\u003c\/em\u003e has been the talk of alt-comics circles for the past year since its debut in the summer of 2009. But before \u003cem\u003ePrison Pit\u003c\/em\u003e, Ryan garnered a considerable following via his one-man humor anthology (which doubled as a one-man War Against Political Correctness) \u003cem\u003eAngry Youth Comix\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eTake a Joke\u003c\/em\u003e collects many of the best stories from this inimitable series as well as many strips created for the wildly-popular Vice magazine, to which Ryan has contributed for years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Unlike Ryan's previous collections, which focused on very short stories, \u003cem\u003eTake a Joke\u003c\/em\u003e spotlights several of the artist's longest humor pieces to date, notably: \"Graveyard Goofs,\" in which Ryan's hapless antiheroes Sinus O'Gynus and Loady McGee exhume the corpse of the recently-deceased Santa Claus as part of a Top Secret experiment, fantasize an orgy with a collection of anthropomorphic condiment bottles (resulting in an unwanted pregnancy), and end up in Hell; \"Boobs Pooter's Jokepocalypse,\" starring a coprophiliac version of Godzilla who destroys the world with hilarious jokes and crazy pranks; and \"The World's Funniest Joke,\" a 24-page masterpiece that makes \u003cem\u003eThe Aristocrats\u003c\/em\u003e look like a Nora Ephron film.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e All this plus Cheeseburger Chase, Omletta DuPont, and \"The Day \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e Came to Town\"!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Johnny Ryan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1606994646\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781606994641\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2011 pg. 51","brand":"Johnny Ryan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47611786068223,"sku":"9781606994641","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_99a8efb0-39a8-426a-921c-de8a0d94a1bb.jpg?v=1764516055","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/take-a-joke-johnny-ryan-9781606994641","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}