Written by Jonathan Ames Art and cover by Dean Haspiel "Hysterically funny and gut-wrenchingly dramatic...graphic lit at it's best." - WIZARD MAGAZINE "Painfully honest, shockingly revealing and totally riveting." - Blair Butler, G4TV "An engaging graphic novel ...Unflinching ...Powerful." - THE NEW[...]
Perhaps all of Jonathan Amesâ problemsâand the genesis of this hilarious bookâcan be traced back to the late onset of his puberty. After all it canât be easy to be sixteen with a hairless âundistinguishable from that of a five year oldâs.â
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"A storyteller of refreshing inventiveness and subtlety" "(San Francisco Chronicle), " Jonathan Ames has won critical raves for this delightful "comedy of impeccable manners with a debauched '90s spin" "(Elle)."
Meet Louis Ives: well-groomed, romantic, and as captivating as an F. Scott [...]
When Alexander Vine finishes his work day, he leaves his post as a doorman at Manhattan's exclusive Four Seasons restaurant -- and enters a nighttime landscape of chance and danger, excitement and reinvention in the city's erotic underworld. Walking a tightrope between sexual desire and self-extinct[...]
WAKE UP, SIR! is an homage to the novels and stories of P.G. Wodehouse. It is the story of a young alcoholic man, Alan Blair, and his valet, Jeeves. Now this Jeeves is not the same Jeeves as featured in Wodehouse - the fact that he possesses the same name is simply a mad coincidence. But, there is s[...]
The author of I Pass Like the Night and The Extra Man transforms his own adventures, neuroses, joys, heartaches, and insights into a series of profound and hilarious anecdotes in a new collection of essays. Reader's Guide available. Original.[...]
An insightful look inside the world of transsexuals shares excerpts from the personal memoirs of seventeen gender pioneers, including Christine Jorgensen, Renee Richards, and others who braved hostility, lack of understanding, and other challenges in their quest to find their true selves. Original. [...]
Wildly original novelist, essayist, and performance artist Jonathan Aames delivers his best collection yet--a hilarious, risque, and loveable selection of articles, essays, and fiction, including several previously unpublished pieces.With an HBO pilot based on this collection's centerpiece ("Bored t[...]
Meet Louis Ives: well groomed, romantic, and as captivating as an F. Scott Fitzgerald hero. Only this hero has a penchant for ladies clothes, and he s lost his teaching post at Princeton s Pretty Brook Day School after an unfortunate incident involving a colleague s brassiere.
Meet Henry Harriso[...]
A brilliant contemporary reimagining of the greatest comic relationship of all time, which goes far beyond pastiche to places even Wodehouse couldn't. Alan Blair, the hero of Wake Up, Sir!, is a young, loony writer with numerous problems of the mental, emotional, sexual, spiritual, and physical vari[...]