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Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus

Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on March 5, 2007 – 1:44 AMNo Comment

I can’t recommend it enough. Cometbus started out as a punk-show ‘zine and evolved into a sort of Samuel Pepys-type chronicle by the pseudonymous Aaron Cometbus, and his writing is direct and funny and lyrical at times, and if you liked Ben Is Dead you’d like this too. It’s a great book to dip in and out of; I don’t know why it took me so long to finish it. Love it. (3/10/05)

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