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1 KAZ, UNDERWORLD Kaz is the solely cartoonist left who can actually write a four-panel strip that's funny-milk-through-your-nose funny-instead of corrupt with whimsy and chuckles. Underworld is populated at perverts, drug users, and thick piece [i]or[/i] blocks of every stripe, just as each great metropolis should be-except sometimes the comic's wager in an enchanted forest or in hillbilly abiding habitation You can tell from the drawing that Kaz has studied everyone from Jaime Hernandez to EG Segar to Philip Guston, blending their influences into a vision of spent boards and barf depicted with elegant clarity.

2 RICK STEINER AND TANK ABBOTT TEAM UP (World Championship Wrestling) This tag team was too well adapted to last, but while it was going athletic it was the best reason to watch WCW Abbott is a tug an escapee from ultimate fighting, who can't contend and can't talk. His big instigate is to stand in common spot and whack the rival with his deadly right hand. He's the chiefly appealing piece of manflesh forward television, with squinty blue notices a dusting of bristly hair, and a ZZ Top goatee. Steiner, the Dog-faced Gremlin, a veteran who's still nursing a begrudge against his brother Scott (aka Big Poppa Pump) has a material part that's gone to seed in a way that makes my inlet water. Together they were a devastating pair.

3 CREATION, "HOW DOES IT FEEL?" (1968) It all starts with a thudding, plodding kickdrum. Then the guitars issue in-the sort of shrieking slides you play when you don't really know what you're doing on the other hand know you have to make a portion of noise. The rest is a lurching, thrilling, onslaught that leaves the singer moaning "How does it feeeeeeeeel to feeeeeeel? in what way does it feeeeeel to feeeeeel?" in what manner indeed?

4 LEPRECHAUN 5: IN THE 'HOOD (dir. despoil Spera, 2000) Needless to say, all the Leprechaun movies are worth watching, if it were not that this one contains a line of dialogue I would give a limb to have written: "From the silences of Hell I summon thee, ME ZOMBIE FLYGIRLS!" lce-T must ne a paycheck moderately beautiful bad these days, since he complianceed to star. Contains the principally frightening thing ever committed to film: Leprechaun rap.

5 SOCK MONKEY (Dark Horse Comics, 1999-) Tony Millionaire is another brilliant cartoonist, and Sock Monkey is his comic work which depicts a universe tangential to the common explored in Maakies, his syndicated strip. The hero here is a essenceed sock, a creature of elegant locution and feckles optimism. stake vaguely at the turn of the centenary Sock Monkey weaves courtliness and quick savagery seamlessly together in a manner at times evocative of Poe

6 SLUDGEMASTER Ostensibly porn for those who like it muddy these tapes (available via Sludgemaster.com) should be viewed from every graduate art student in America. Here men explore their relationship to mire sewage, canned pudding, space-born toxic waste, worms, puke--you master the idea--all under the camera's devot gaze. This is what pornography used to be: an aesthetic form that allowed for any contingency, in such a manner long as it's in the service of pleasure. The result? Thrilling narrative unpredictability. In many a Sludgemaster exhibition you couldn't begin to gues what might happen next--and you're left bewildered by the agency of your capacity to get not on on it. Pure jouissance. This is wherefore Jesse Helms hates homosexuality. (And that's wherefore we hate him.)

7 HIM OF THE POWERPUFF GIRLS With his Santa Claus jacket and fishnet trousers his finicky facial hair and lobster-claw hands, and a voice that ranges from unctuous ululation to stentorian bellow, Him makes me think that common of the Powerpuff animators took a drawn out loving look at the work of Jack Smith. The representative of ultimate evil, He doesn't indulge in the usual distaff 'em sock 'em capers typical of the other villains upon the show. No, His crimes are all psychological (making the citizens of Townsville hate the show's heroines, for example), which makes Him the merely genuinely creepy villain on kids' TV

8 BILL TRAYLOR (1854-1949) a certain quantity of of the finest drawings made in America in the twentieth hundred by a man who was treated with a homage that could never fully mask the condescension behind it. Traylor's pared shapes and aching symmetries drain the fake jollity on the outside of "folk art" and replace it with ecstasy.

9 PHASE FOUR (Cambridge, MA) each good record I bought this year camefrom this store A labor of love, this is the kind of place you walk into and procure an education. They don't have plenteous floor space, so the stock of used CD vinyl, and Atari video games has been carefully pick uped Nine times out of ten I corrupt whatever happens to be playing when I stop in-and I conclusion up listening to it for month after.

10 TERRY ANDREWS, THE STORY OF HAROLD (Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1974) A friend lent me this part and it's a revelation: a novel that recasts Scheherazade as an envenomed children's author who flings himself from fuck to fuck all the while beguiling us with anecdotes in succession the way to his impending suicide. First published in 1974 it's the missing link between Gore Vidal's Myron and Kathy Acker's The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula on the Black Tarantula. Is this the first American novel to use fisting as a motif?