Minimum Wage 1: Focus on the Strange - Brossura

Bob Fingerman, who South Park / The Book of Mormon's creatorTrey Parker has described as "a brilliant satirist, artist and mind," hasreturned to his signature series Minimum Wage after a fifteen-year break.Spurred by assembling last year's definitive collection of the '90s eramaterial, Maximum Minimum Wage, Fingerman is thrilled to be creating newmaterial. Minimum Wage Volume 1: Focus on the Strange collects thefirst six all-new chapters, as well as a ton of bonus material including thecovers and a huge guest artist gallery featuring pin-ups by Bill Sienkiewicz,Farel Dalrymple, J. Bone, Joe Flood, and Brandon Graham.

Picking up thestory in spring of 2000, freshly separated Rob Hoffman is trying to reassemblehis life. Only 25, he's going through a divorce, his finances are in ruins, andhe's forced to move back in with mom. All around him things are changing. Theinternet is about to erase his number-one source of income: men's mags. But theinternet also offers a new angle on dating, and so begins Rob's adventures as asingleton.

Rob Hoffman,protagonist of the original Minimum Wage graphic novel, returns in a newcollection that finds him awaiting the finalization of his divorce. He's livingat home with his mother, eking out a living drawing pornographic cartoons, anddiving back into the sexual hunting ground that is the NYC bar and club scene.Rob's misadventures in and out of the sheets with three women-a stoner with bodyimage issues, a married post-menopausal children's show entertainer, and asuperior from his porn industry job-happen in impressively rapid succession, butall are punctuated by the unshakeable memory of his ex-wife, Sylvia. Rob's worldis all-too-identifiable, populated with visually distinct and quirky characterspossessing a fleshiness that lends realism to the book's many couplings. Thanksto Fingerman's facility as a writer and illustrator, the city lives and breathesas Rob navigates his way through a maelstrom of urban oddity. Fingerman'sprevious work was always grounded in candid, realistic examination of the humanexperience and this tale brings readers more of that, the author's ongoingevolution and maturation as a graphic novelist evident. A humorous and trenchantcomic for grownups that leaves the majority of its contemporaries in thedust. - PublishersWeekly