THE ANGRIEST DOG IN THE WORLD BY DAVID LYNCH
The Angriest Dog in the World is a comic strip conceived by David Lynch in 1973, but not realized until 1983, when it first ran in the alternative weekly newspaper Los Angeles Reader. Visually each strip is the same, with the panels never changing. Word balloons are changed out over time in one or more of the panels, indicating speech from unseen characters, usually in the form of an aphorism or non-sequitur. The strip appeared in the Los Angeles Reader until 1992.
The Angriest Dog in the World has been reproduced here for the first time at the same scale it was published in the Reader. The original versions of the strip contained lettering rendered by various hands, as Lynch had, while location-shooting, phoned-in the text. For this publication, that lettering has been replaced by a typeface that replicates the handwriting of Lynch, to achieve a consistency throughout. This is the first reprinting approved by David Lynch and consists of 17 strips not previously seen since their original publication.
Includes a foreword by French film theorist and composer Michel Chion.
About David Lynch: Born Missoula, Montana. Eagle Scout.
“The most surprising thing about reading (The Angriest Dog in the World) is how fresh and funny each gag is, despite the unrelenting repetition of images. The tension that Lynch created in each strip, meant to appear at random in a newspaper, is an irreducible package.” —Rob Clough, Solrad: The Online Literary Magazine for Comics
Limited printing of 500 copies | 40 pages | black and white | perfect bound | 2020