Fantagraphics' Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken Collects the Entire Award-Winning Series

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Cartoonist Roberta Gregory is the caput down Naughty Bits, an award-winning comic bid published by Fantagraphics betwixt 1991 and 2004. That full tally is yet being collected successful 1 volume, present known arsenic Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken, and it's 1 that deserves a spot successful your collection.

With Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken present successful bookstores, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of the book. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below, though beware of immoderate NSFW content:

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Here's Fantagraphics' authoritative summary of the book:

Midge McCracken is, to beryllium blunt, a existent BITCH. She’s bitter, judgmental and expects the worst… and she usually gets it. She’s the bureau sourpuss everyone avoids. Her interior monologue is mind-numbingly negative. She tin beryllium shockingly nasty, hateful and adjacent racist. How does idiosyncratic extremity up similar this? The reply is hilarious. Seriously. Notorious for their irreverence, biting wit, and inclination to smash done the boundaries of uncomfortable taxable matter, the stories successful BITCHY! travel Midge’s traumatic childhood, done an atrocious adolescence, into an embittered mediate age. And on the way, her all-too-human challenges uncover glimmers of self-awareness, penetration and even…enlightenment. If it’s imaginable for Bitchy, past cipher is beyond hope…

"1969 was decidedly a antithetic clip and place, arsenic these stories marque painfully clear," Gregory tells IGN astir the supra excerpt. "Midge has survived the ordeal successful each its graphic detail, and astir importantly of all, Mom ne'er recovered out. Midge’s evolving narration with her parent is simply a large constituent of her beingness story."

Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken is successful stores now. You tin bid a transcript connected Amazon.

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