REVIEWS
REVIEWS
REVIEWS
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My washcloth stinks!- the blurbs
"Lonnie millsap: twisted comic genius or just weird Rhonda Winter / Ecolocalizer (9/2011) I met the cartoonist Lonnie Millsap over a twenty five cent can of Pabst Blue Ribbon last month in Culver City. How could such a miraculous thing be possible, you ask? In the magical city of angels, Los Angeles, California, apparently anything can happen. Millsap and friends helping tocelebrate the 75th anniversary of the local Culver City dive, the Backstage Bar & Grill. By the time I had finished mythird can of twenty five cent beer, Mr. Millsap and I found out that we had a great deal in common. We are both artists native to southern California, as well as friends of the world famous syndicated cartoonist Keith Knight, and we evenboth briefly shared a zip code in Atlanta Georgia thirteen years ago. Lonnie gave me his first two books to read, andI was immediately engrossed; I even laughed out loud reading a few of the cartoons. I found this cock- roach pillow talkstrip especially perverse and satisfying. How can you go wrong with effusively honest praise like that? I couldn’t waitto start reading it. Although my favorite insight into the local artist’s work comes fromhis own mother. In her concise blurb for his book, she flatly retorts: “Lame, Lame, Lame What black person draws cartoons like these??†Millsap’s twisted observationalhumor is often compared to the likes of Gary Larson and DanPiraro, but his visions are somewhat more visceral and less polite than their work. His subjects range widely, from the peculiar conjectures and concerns of various creatures and inanimate objects, to just an expansively odd view of the world. His original perspective could also possibly be described as something that maybe got dropped on its headreally hard, and then left out in the melting sun for just a bit too long. This hilarious cartoon about some of the unforseen logistical problems posed by the rapture illustrates what I mean about the artist’s uniquely twisted thought process:
"Lonnie Millsap's cartoons are good and make me laugh. I don't laugh at everything. In fact, most cartoons are not very interesting. I will always read a Lonnie Millsap cartoon book, because I know that I will laugh many times and maybe even CRY LAUGHING!" -
Gary Panter- World Famous Artist- garypanter.com
"...(Lonnie's) website is hilarious. After visiting for a few minutes I feel compelled to buy his book..." -
Matt Kelley, What Weekly/ whatweekly.com
"...Panter recruited Atlanta cartoonist Lonnie Brooks—“His cartoons make me laugh and have a great offhand attitude,†says Panter..."
- John Lewis, Baltimore Magazine
(Lonnie Brooks?!?....Name correction appeared in following issue)
"So funny that we literally fight with each other over who controls our copy of the book."
- Maya and Jacob Bryant
"...nor do the original panels by professional cartoonists John Callahan and Lonnie Millsap qualify as “outsider art.â€
-Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper/ citypaper.com
(First time I've ever been called a professional cartoonist!!!)
i hate my job!- the blurbs
'Lonnie Millsap's incredibly stupid jokes crack me up time after time, even though i can tell that he is trying to make me laugh and I resent that.'
-Gary Panter- the father of punk rock art- garypanter.com
"Silly, twisted, demented...Lonnie Millsap's cartoons are just what the doctor (whose license has been revoked) ordered!!" Weird, silly little cartoons--and I mean that as a compliment!!"
-Keith Knight (the Knight Life, the K Chronicles, (th)ink) - www.kchronicles.com
"Like Tarantino, Millsap makes me laugh at murder and racism, and I don't care for it."
-Denise Du Vernay- Author- the simpsons in the classroom
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