Angry Youth Comics is an adult humor comic-book written and drawn by Johnny Ryan. It generally features the characters Loady McGee and Sinus O'Gynus, as well as Blecky Yuckerella, Boobs Pooter, and Sherlock McRape. The comic, like most of Ryan's oeuvre, is generally an attempt to be as shocking and politically incorrect as possible. Johnny Ryan (1970 - ) is an American alternative comics creator. ...
Angry Youth Comics was self-published by Ryan starting in 1994, and ran until 1999. The series was picked up by Fantagraphics in 2001. Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, underground comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, and graphic novels located in the Maple Leaf neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. ...
Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, underground comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, and graphic novels located in the Maple Leaf neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.
In 2003 the company nearly went out of business, but was saved by a restructuring and an outpouring of support from customers.
Fantagraphics is a company dedicated to promoting comics as a respectable art form, although it is financially dependent on its adult-oriented sub–division, Eros Comix.
Johnny Ryan is the creator of ANGRYYOUTH COMIX, one of the most-talked about minicomics of the last several years (it's nominated for a "Best Mini" Ignatz Award at this year's Small Press Expo).
It was because comics were viewed as trash that cartoonists had the freedom to do whatever they wanted.
Comics were one of the few mediums where you could be as big an asshole as you wanted to be.