(W) Johnny Ryan (A/CA) Johnny Ryan
Upholding crime and corruption, one fast food joint
at a time.
Fat Cop never passes up a possible grift, a chance to use excessive
force, or a pit stop at any chain restaurant he passes. He chafes
when forced to take a new partner, Pete Rick, to keep him on the
up and up. Even when he lucks into a heroic deed, he manages
to do so repulsively. But when Fat Cop uncovers a child slave
ring operating out of the local Trader Joe's, he may have met his
match on the reprehensibility scale. If he's not careful, it might
be a transformative experience that causes him to reconsider
his role as a loving partner and father. Well, up to a point, anyway
- sometimes a fat cop is just a Fat Cop.
Johnny Ryan returns to his lowbrow humor roots following
his cult classic and violent fantasy series, Prison Pit. Ping-ponging
his antihero through an ever-escalating and cascading series
of violent, scatological, and wildly imaginative absurdities (most
but not all of Fat Cop's own making), Ryan's brilliance as a visual
and verbal gag writer shine on every page of this master class in physical humor and
comics storytelling. Fat Cop is as hilarious as it is profane, and a welcome return to
long-form comics by the cartoonist and animation veteran Johnny Ryan.
Johnny Ryan is the creator of the cult favorite Angry Youth Comics, a co-creator of
the Nickelodeon series Pig Goat Banana Cricket, and was the story editor of Warner's
mid-2010s reboot of Looney Tunes. He lives in Glendale CA.
In Shops: Jan 31, 2024
