There is this graphics book called "Chicago' written by comic artist Glen head. This book covers some loser who just wanted to smoke cigarettes and drink booze as he dropped out of art school in the seventies and most likely is a memoir of himself. Tis is a comin g of age story of this underground writer and whether any of the stuff is true only lies in the head of Glen head. Glen recalls how miserable his life was in suburbia and how he just had to get out to some art school in Cleveland. Th
e rebellious Glenn is such a pain in the head for the at teachers that he winds up getting kicked out of this art school and then ends up shacking with some negro in Chicago begging for jingle for booze and smokes. the complex relationship Mr Head has with his father the elder Head is examined and this clearly got into the head of Glen Head. One gets from reading this book that Glenn's mental state was always fucked up and comics was an outlet for him to vent his frustrations and disappointments of conclusions. This guy seems to have had an inattentive salesmen of a father who cared more for material objects than the objects and desires that were in Glenn's loose brain as a youth. Many children of the upper Middle Class have all these objects that give them momentary distraction and fulfillment but the more they have the more bored and lack of motivation it seems to produce for so many. Luckily for Glenn Head he found an opportunity for his expression through Hugh Heffner's Playboy magazine and a head is lucky this outlet was there at that momment in time. 
In Chicago Glenn meets some Black dude named Aaron who offers him room and board and one imagines that glen head often had to give head for free rent and board. later in the book Glen draws that he meets Muhammed Ali in the streets of Chicago and calls him the N word making a scene in the windy city. This book is described as a brutal portray of life for young folks by some book reviewers but I will describe this book as just fucking brutal and an awful waste of paper and publishing time. One has to think why Fantagraphic books would allow this crap to be published. who cares that this rural backwater loser leaves his home to fulfill his dream of being a peddler on the street and a cartoonist in his mind. Glen Head is an awful comic artist and his work and storyline is lame. He deserves to have his work in the underground and the sewers are really a place I would say the work and comic artwork of a Glenn head belongs. Chicago is a book that is neither a positive reflection of a lame sublime life nor is it of any comedic value of a comic illustration. I really don't know who would want this book either to buy or loan out and read. There are many fucked up heads and minds in the millennium generation who think and follow the examples set forth by previous comic con geeks like Glenn Head. The increasing popularity of these comic conventions and so forth are a sign of this outlet of idle Class youth frustrations and realizations that their lives suck and following comic costume flakes and eating up their bad stories s is the best medicine 
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