Don’t miss a super cool reading + book signing with Josh Pettinger to celebrate the release of TEDWARD! He’ll be joined by special guest Chris Cilla to celebrate the release of his new book, FEAST OF GREASE. Josh will also have copies of his newest comic PLEASURE BEACH.
Meet Tedward — a blockhead with a heart of gold, and a talent for making bad situations worse.
Tedward is, in many ways, the quintessential ‘lovable loser’ — an almost literal blockhead and mangenue in the grand tradition of Pee-Wee Herman, Candide, and Flakey Foont, affording his creator the perfect vehicle to indulge his brilliantly absurdist storytelling instincts. Tedward’s susceptibility to temptation, exploitation (capitalistic or sexual), and misplaced trust continually lands him in ridiculous and hilarious situations, be they scatological, orgiastic, violent, or mundane. His heart of gold never wavers through it all.
Tedward is the latest collection from British-born Philadelphia cartoonist Josh Pettinger. A spiritual cousin to the humor of Simon Hanselmann and Daniel Clowes, Pettinger’s singularity of tone and style in these episodic comedies mark him as a master cartoonist just entering his prime.
WHO: Josh Pettinger and Chris Cilla
WHAT: Book reading and signing
WHEN: Sunday March 9, 4-6pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 1223 Lloyd Center