Underworld

If you like black humour, if you like thick ink on frisky paper, if you think life sucks, this book is for you.

My Standard Operating Procedure for reading Kaz's "Underworld" is to flip through until I read a page that makes me say out loud "Oh, my God! That's horrible!"Then I put it away for a couple of days until the mood strikes me to flip through it once again.Give copies to all your friends and family and watch with glee as they slowly realize you are not who they thought you were...

Kaz, the master of the underground comic buisness, has made an incredible depiction of the underground life in cities. He satires drinking, drugs, sex and abuse with ease and makes you laugh at those things that you know you shouldn't. His characters are flawless symbols of evil and imperfection and the artistic look of the general book is amazing. A buy worth every penny.

Underworld is a hilariously nightmarish cartoon city where the denizens are a twisted mockery and amalgam of all the cartoons from gag strips of Yore. You will see somewhat familiar faces, skewed and distorted. Its everything that cartoons have ever been, without the limitations of staying within the safe confines of Cartoonyland...The gags are just as corny as any Family Circus you've ever read, with a disturbing twist that makes the old jokes absolutely hilarious. Kaz knows comics. Kaz is comics. There is something truely upsetting yet oddly hysterical about reading a simple punchline like "heroin" that causes a bizarro Snuffy Smith to faint off camera. Once you read Kaz's work, you will crave more...for any fan of reality and any enemy of King Features Syndicate.

Funny! Surreal! If you let people tell you how you should live your life at least don't let them tell you what to read. Life is too short and Kaz's vignettes make note of that. His cartoons are one of a kind and in need of experiencing. Well, I have.