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The Collected Hutch Owen Paperback – December 1, 2000

by Tom Hart (Author)

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Despite his looks and bad attitude, Hutch Owen is not a bum. Hutch is a hardworking vagrant and full-time rebel, self-appointed to keep society on the right path. Hutch Owens first appeared in mini comics in 1994, and this new book collects those strips and two works published for the first time. These simply drawn, whimsical broadsides against the modern corporate media state manage to combine political outrage, antic comedy and a lot of charm. In the story "Working Hard," we're introduced to Hutch's evil nemesis, Dennis Worner, president of Worner Products, a soulless international conglomerate, who is working relentlessly to turn every aspect of human life into a profitable commodity. He's responsible for the Punk Rock Car ("Get angry for it") and is about to release a film sequel, Gratuitator III ("three times the carnage of Gratuitator I!"). Then there are plans to bulldoze Chimuhumhum, a sacred Indian forest ("We changed the name to Northfield"), where he wants to park his Party Blimp, and the new line of Slacker Gear (to go "along with our Hippy Freak and Rebel Scum lines"). But while Hutch is occasionally down (his anti-Worner graffiti sets the bad guys after him), he's never quite out. He's an everyman fed up with office cubicles arranged in a maze, the hysteria for professional sports, stock market idolatry and bars crowded with yuppies on cell phones. Hart's black and white comic offers a sweet, left-wing diatribe against the corporate takeover of the marketplace and the apparent consequent acquisition of our souls.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Top Shelf Productions (December 1, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1891830171
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1891830174
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 - 16 years
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 8.9 inches

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Hi, I'm Tom Hart, a cartoonist. I started The Sequential Artists Workshop, a school and arts organization in Gainesville, Florida.

Before that, I taught at School of Visual Arts for 10 years, a did a bunch of other stuff (below.)

My book about my daughter, Rosalie Lightning, was a NY Times #1 bestseller and been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese, and was featured on many best of 2016 lists, and was nominated for two Eisner Awards.

Before that, I was the creator of the Hutch Owen series of graphic novels and books. The Collected Hutch Owen was nominated for best graphic novel in 2000.I was an early recipient of a Xeric Grant for self-publishing cartoonists, and has been on many best-of lists in the Comics Journal and other comix publications. I was called "One of the great underrated cartoonists of our time" by Eddie Campbell and "One of my favorite cartoonists of the decade" by Scott McCloud. The Hutch Owen comic strip ran for 2 years in newspapers in New York and Boston, and his "Ali's House", co-created with Margo Dabaie was picked up by King Features Syndicate.

I was a core instructor at New York City's School of Visual Arts for 10 years, teaching cartooning to undergraduates, working adults and teens alike. Among his students were Dash Shaw, Sarah Glidden Box Brown and other published cartoonists like Leslie Stein, Jessica Fink, Josh Bayer, Brendan Leach and many others.

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Polly Davis

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Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2015

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all the hutch owen stuff by tom hart is fantastic. great social commentary, while remaining funny and engaging.

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Mr. Dave K.

There is no other cartoonist quite like Tom Hart

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2016

There is no other cartoonist quite like Tom Hart. He is a special and unique voice in comics. The sentiments in this book ring very true to me. It also reflects a way of thinking that seemed prevalent to me as a teenager in the 1990's. Rereading this book makes it even more relevant to me now. The world needs a little bit more Hutch Owen. Thank you, Tom! Highest recommendation!

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Daniel V. Reilly

A lot of laughs, and a lot to think about.

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2001

I bought Hutch Owen expecting to laugh, not learn. But if a cartoon book about an anarchic vagrant can be funny, and educational, and touching, and a thousand other things, so much the better.

Hutch is a hard-working man, whose work just happens to be railing against the system and alerting the common man to the depradations of Big Business, embodied in the book by "Worner Products". (CEO Dennis Worner has some...odd....ideas, among them a line of Malcolm X clothing and paraphernalia and a bizarre soft drink, plus the "Punk Rock Car.....GET ANGRY FOR IT!!!!" I suspsct that some of these products would, in real life, be big sellers....)

Hutch tries to impart gentle lessons in humanity to people, and I found his friendship with a little boy, and their quest to build a "Hideout" from the rest of the world to be particularly touching. The 3rd story in the 4 story book is a flat-out gutbuster, as Hutch is forced to get a job (gasp...) for the stock-market. The way he innocently plays all of the idiotic traders for fools, and casually manipulates the market, is hilarious.
In the end, we would all be better off if we really had a Hutch Owen......

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