This is a new comic by Ben Snakepit detailing his trip to the sunshine state. What we learned by reading this: 1)There's almost always cool girls on either Greyhound or the train. 2)Marriage hurts more than tattoos. 3)After crying, take a nap. 4)San Francisco's buildings are made of grids and melt together 5)You stick your tongue out when you're plastered 6)Breasts look like upside down question marks 7)The sun smiles and wears sunglasses 8)Boomboxes belong on pedestals 9)Fate is a nickel toss. The real beauty of Ben's comics is that he doesn't reflect on his actions. He just explains his day in the simplest terms and never (well, rarely) tries to rationalize what he did. (Pez and Joe)h
This is Ben Snakepit's incredibly moving story of "Pills"; his ex-wife. It begins at their meeting, then how their relationship progressed, to them getting married, how their lives changed, and then finally their doomed breakup. The story is VERY sad and compelling so I'd advise you to know that before you read it. As with all of Ben's comics it's truly an excellent work and I just don't want the story to end.
Maddy does a split comic issue with Ben Snakepit utilizing her unique drawing style (and crazy life) to complement Ben's style (and life) very nicely.
Ben draws the cutest little comic frames to illustrate his life. His drawing and writing style is honestly sincere and heartfelt and you can imagine and feel his highs and lows. He obviously has a lot of passion for his friends, going to shows, playing in bands, going to parties, drinking and smoking pot, and working in a record store. Each day captured is in 3 frames, along with what he was listening to while drawing the frame. Despite his skull t-shirts and rough exterior you can tell he's a big softy and not just cruising for the next kiss or party. This issue covers a spring breakup. Cover by Jim Mahfood.
Ben draws the cutest little comic frames to illustrate his life. His drawing and writing style is honestly sincere and heartfelt and you can imagine and feel his highs and lows. He obviously has a lot of passion for his friends, going to shows, playing in bands, going to parties, drinking and smoking pot, and working in a record store. Each day captured is in 3 frames, along with what he was listening to while drawing the frame. Despite his skull t-shirts and rough exterior you can tell he's a big softy and not just cruising for the next kiss or party. This issue documents Ben's "Revolution Summer" '04, touring with numerous bands, coming up to the zine symposium, recording a new J Church record, and getting numerous offers he can't refuse!
Ben draws the cutest little comic frames to illustrate his life. His drawing and writing style is honestly sincere and heartfelt and you can imagine and feel his highs and lows. He obviously has a lot of passion for his friends, going to shows, playing in bands, going to parties, drinking and smoking pot, and working in a record store. Each day captured is in 3 frames, along with what he was listening to while drawing the frame. Despite his skull t-shirts and rough exterior you can tell he's a big softy and not just cruising for the next kiss or party. This issue documents a tour with his band, J CHURCH, and Ben's otherwise seemingly uneventful fall of '04
Ben draws the cutest little comic frames to illustrate his life. His drawing and writing style is honestly sincere and heartfelt and you can imagine and feel his highs and lows. He obviously has a lot of passion for his friends, going to shows, playing in bands, going to parties, drinking and smoking pot, and working in a record store. Each day captured is in 3 frames, along with what he was listening to while drawing the frame. Despite his skull t-shirts and rough exterior you can tell he's a big softy and not just cruising for the next kiss or party. This issue documents a European tour with his band, J CHURCH, kissing a new girl, and of the glorious mundanity that is everyday life!
Ben draws the cutest little comic frames to illustrate his life. His drawing and writing style is honestly sincere and heartfelt and you can imagine and feel his highs and lows. He obviously has a lot of passion for his friends, going to shows, playing in bands, going to parties, drinking and smoking pot, and working in a video store. Each day captured is in 3 frames, along with what he was listening to while drawing the frame. Despite his skull t-shirts and rough exterior you can tell he's a big softy and not just cruising for the next kiss or party. This issue documents a low period in his life, going to the STAPLE convention, touring Japan with his band, J CHURCH, going to lots of punk shows, and of the glorious mundanity that is everyday life!
Follow Ben through his daily comic adventures involving beer, weed, work, shows, tour, love, and parties filled with monsters. His drawing and writing style is honestly sincere and heartfelt and you can imagine and feel his highs and lows. Each day captured is in 3 frames, along with what he was listening to while drawing the frame. Despite his skull t-shirts and rough exterior you can tell he's a big softy and not just cruising for the next kiss or party.
A sudden and unexpected departure from Ben's normal life of succinct 3 panel comics illustrating his life. This issue is about his moods, thoughts, and feelings on tour in Japan with J Church. He obviously has a lot of passion for his friends, obsessing about a relationship gone awry, Japanese food and music, going to shows, playing in bands, going to parties, drinking and smoking pot, and working in a record store. Despite his skull t-shirts and rough exterior you can tell he's a big softy and not just cruising for the next kiss or party.
Chris Terry's Gullible side captures punk rock culture wth words and is a good preservation of it. Contains tour stories and descriptions of his homelife. Very entertaining and Chris has a good sense of local history and a good idea of his peronal ethics which translates to good reading.
Ben draws the cutest little comic frames to illustrate his life. His drawing and writing style is honestly sincere and heartfelt and you can imagine and feel his highs and lows. He obviously has a lot of passion for his friends, going to shows, playing in bands, going to parties, drinking and smoking pot, and working in a record store. Each day captured is in 3 frames, along with what he was listening to while drawing the frame. Despite his skull t-shirts and rough exterior you can tell he's a big softy and not just cruising for the next kiss or party.
Ben draws the cutest little comic frames to illustrate his life. His drawing and writing style is honestly sincere and heartfelt and you can imagine and feel his highs and lows. He obviously has a lot of passion for his friends, going to shows, playing in bands, going to parties, drinking and smoking pot, and working in a record store. Each day captured is in 3 frames, along with what he was listening to while drawing the frame. Despite his skull t-shirts and rough exterior you can tell he's a big softy and not just cruising for the next kiss or party. This issue packs a US tour with J Church and a summer crush with a co-worker.
Ben draws the cutest little comic frames to illustrate his life. His drawing and writing style is honestly sincere and heartfelt and you can imagine and feel his highs and lows. He obviously has a lot of passion for his friends, going to shows, playing in bands, going to parties, drinking and smoking pot, and working in a record store. Each day captured is in 3 frames, along with what he was listening to while drawing the frame. Despite his skull t-shirts and rough exterior you can tell he's a big softy and not just cruising for the next kiss or party. Ben and his friends start a Misfits cover band to rock out for Halloween!
Ben draws the cutest little comic frames to illustrate his life. His drawing and writing style is honestly sincere and heartfelt and you can imagine and feel his highs and lows. He obviously has a lot of passion for his friends, going to shows, playing in bands, going to parties, drinking and smoking pot, and working in a record store. Each day captured is in 3 frames, along with what he was listening to while drawing the frame. Despite his skull t-shirts and rough exterior you can tell he's a big softy and not just cruising for the next kiss or party. This issue: J Church tours in Japan and Ben makes a big decision.
Follow Ben through his daily life illustrated as 3 comic panel adventures involving beer, weed, work, shows, tour, love, and parties filled with monsters. His drawing and writing style is sincere and heartfelt and you can imagine and feel his highs and lows. Each day is illustrated along with what he was listening to while drawing the frame. The quarterly and bi-monthly formats are no more, and now each year will be collected in a single slim paperback, just like in the beginning.
Ben draws the cutest little comic frames to illustrate his life. His drawing and writing style is honestly sincere and heartfelt and you can imagine his highs and lows. He obviously has a lot of passion for his friends, going to shows, playing in bands, going to parties, drinking and smoking pot, and working in a record store. The collection issue is his bread a butter; Over 100 pages of his life with each day captured in 3 panels (along with what he was listening to while drawing the frame). The split issue with Clutch is the perfect match. They illustrate diary style comic frames on a daily basis and both have very defined character to their styles. It's refreshing to see such a suitable pair.
By now you know the drill: Ben White draws his life everyday in 3 comic panels. This was his first book, collecting quite a few various zines. After describing dozens of various Snakepit titles I'm going to defer to the wisdom of Jimmi Payne's Punk Zine, "Taken individually, each strip resembles what a friend would say if you asked what they had done that day. Ben sifts through the minutiae of life as well as the full experience of time in a day. This is different than James Kochalka's work as there is no pretense at narrative or point. The narratives in Snakepit open up on the macro level. If Snakepit is to be read on the toliet, a mere bowel movement is enough time to live months through the protagonist's eyes. Patterns emerge and story arcs materialize and years of common actions load into a highly concentrated snapshot that wakes you up to the ongoing machinations of life beyond your present day. This has led many to label Snakepit an existential text." Introduction about doing cocaine by Aaron Cometbus.
In a sense, despite turning the big 3-0, Ben Snakepit captures the same spirit in the comics he draws to summarise each and every day of nearly the last decade of his life. In his second collection condensing the last three years we see our hero move to and from Canada, tour the world with J Church, hang out with the Sainte Catherines, meet Mike Watt, get caught in the throes of whirlwind romances and we're there to watch helplessly as he gets his heart broken. There's also more pants-shitting, Adderall tripping and days of doing absolutely nothing to keep the old school fans happy. Also keeping with tradition there's a song allocated to each day and this collection comes with a mix cd of some of those songs for the maximum Snakepit life experience.
Voted Best Minicomic - Wizard March 2006! Voted Best local comic – Austin Statesman 2006! ISBN 0-9788665-5-X
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