The Complete Lockpick Pornography

Description

This collects Joey Comeau's Lockpick Pornography and its previously unpublished follow-up, We All Got It Coming into one volume for the first time. The first is a genderqueer adventure story and the second is about a young couple dealing with the aftermath of an act of violence. Both explore the prejudice and the ramifications of violence with a slightly unhinged humour and unexpected tenderness. From kidnapping the son of a family values' politician in Lockpick Pornography to the violent confrontation of We All Got It Coming, these are characters that fight back.'

Joey Comeau is the author of "One Bloody Thing After Another," "Overqualified," and" It's Too Late to Say I'm Sorry," as well as the popular web comic "A Softer World." He lives in Toronto.

"The Complete Lockpick Pornography is an engaging, occasionally moving, and consistently well-written item--both for fans already familiar with Comeau's A Softer World comics and those encountering him for the first time." -- Broken Pencil "[Comeau] has a well-deserved reputation for cheerfully deranged work, borne out by this pair of thematically linked stories." -- Publishers Weekly "Comeau holds membership with a tiny group of envelope-pushing Canadian writers who challenge what we collectively view as worthy and acceptable subject matter in our literature and ... has an unparalleled knack for finding the sweet sadness and rare humour in common pain, in the painfully commonplace." -- Quill & Quire "Comeau is unmistakably a provocateur, though his literary ambitions extend beyond simple provocation... The Complete Lockpick Pornography, a collection of two thematically linked novellas, is both gleefully and constructively subversive." -- Winnipeg Review "The best parts of Toronto-based writer Joey Comeau's stories in The Complete Lockpick Pornography are his surprising yet compassionate endings...Both endings leave you reconsidering notions of violence, gender, sexuality and prejudice that surround us everyday." -- The Coast