Real Deal Comix

by Lawrence Hubbard, H. P. McElwee

Overview

A vital piece of alternative comic history about black culture by black cartoonists.

Inspired by magazines like Mad and traditional superhero comics, Real Deal magazine was a self-published,independent comic book created in the 1990s by Lawrence Hubbard (a.k.a “RawDog”) and H.P. McElwee (a.k.a. “R.D. Bone”). Peopled with a cast out of a blaxploitation movie — convicts, hustlers, drug addicts,crack whores, car thieves,and murderers — these cult-classic comics straddle the line between satirizing and showing the harsh realities of urban life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781606999264
Publisher:	Fantagraphics Books
Publication date:	09/06/2016
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	16 Years

About the Author

Lawrence “Rawdog” Hubbard is a Los Angeles native. He is an artist and the publisher of Real Deal Comix, which garnered a cult following during its run.

H.P. McElwee (a.k.a. “R.D. Bone”) passed away in 1998.

Editorial Reviews

10/17/2016
Entertainment made by and for African-American audiences has often featured aspects glorifying "bad dudes" since slaves first regaled one another with wish-fulfillment yarns. The comics medium, however, has seen very little of this, with most of its black characters serving as exemplars of what their (usually white) creators saw as role models. This volume offers a scabrous counterpoint to such well-intentioned pap, taking a dizzying banquet of sleazy and negative bad-dude stereotypes to a level that borders on sociopathy. From its first panel, the authors thrust the reader face-first into a crudely-illustrated DIY cartoon world populated exclusively by pimps, hoods, gamblers, mafiosi, drug addicts, sex workers, and just about everyone else one would find in blaxploitation thrillers, only with the profanity, ultra-graphic violence, and abuse of women cranked up to an extreme degree while presented as darkly humorous. Originally published in the 1990s, this sepia Chernobyl of offensiveness is recommended solely for those who can handle its sandpaper-rough lashings of brutal vileness. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

"Raw immediacy that yanks your head back then follows up with a perfect throat punch. Real Deal Comix is just about every kind of disgusting you can think of but impossible to look away from."

io9

"Real Deal IS the real deal. There is no realer, better comic out there. This is high, high, high comics art. Each issue is a constantly escalating explosion of violence, violent sex, and hostile violence, but made beautiful through the drawings of the self-taught Lawrence "Raw Dog" Hubbard."

Vice