HO! Chris Schweizer Simon (Sam) Rodia had no

Simon (Sam) Rodia had no formal engineering or architectural training

and the dream of how we just might get out

The new gonzo graphic novel love letter to 90s action movies by Eisner-nominated cartoonist Kyle Starks (SEXCASTLE

His skillful hand at illustration and ironic way with words

and the impulse that we all sometimes have to give a comically serious answer to a child’s comically serious question

HO! Chris Schweizer Simon (Sam) Rodia had noBy Ivan Brunetti. Published by Fantagraphics. Hardcover, 112 pages, B&W, 2009 The vast majority of Brunetti's morally questionable, aesthetically confusedand absolutely gut bustinggag cartoons, discreetly presented in an uninviting, funereal package of unglamorous black and white. Hoping to further increase his irrelevance to the esteemed world of graphic novels and thus cement his status as former cartoonist, the saturnine Ivan Brunetti (author of