My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down by David Heatley

My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down by David Heatley

What if you wrote and drew a comic strip that honestly depicted every sexual experience you ever had, from junior school (don't ask) to last week (ditto)? It would force you to re-examine your life in ways that would make your shrink blush. In 2004 that's exactly what David Heatley did, and called it (what else) 'My Sexual History'. It originally appeared in an obscure comics anthology called Kramer's Ergot, which was nevertheless given a starred review by Publisher's Weekly, which singled out the strip and remarked that it was 'page after page of tiny, crudely rendered but wincingly remembered incidents'. And what else to follow that up with than 'Black History', which chronicles every African-American he ever encountered, whether it was Lennie from daycare who taught him the N-word, or the artist's impressions of Michael Jackson's Thriller. All of it rendered in, um, black and white. So make no mistake -- David Heatley is anything but withholding. Quite the opposite. But the great surprise is that he's not simply playing for shock effect either. He's just trying to tell you what happened as succinctly and colourfully as he can, whether it was in a dream or at a game of group Strip Pig in his friend's basement. Which ended in a sort of awkward, slow-motion orgy. These things happen. My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (which gleans its title from the refrain of a song by the Ramones, FYI) marks the start of a brilliant cartooning career.

DAVID HEATLEY is a cartoonist, illustrator and musician living in Queens, New York, with his wife and two children. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, The Best American Comics of 2006 and 2007, The New Yorker and the Op-Ed page of The New York Times.

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ISBN 13	9780224085380
ISBN 10	0224085387
Title	My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down
Author	David Heatley
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2008-10-02
Number of pages	128
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