Ryan Goes To "Prison"  Thu, October 21st, 2010 at 1:58pm PDT
Comic Books Chris Mautner, Contributing Writer  Johnny Ryan
talks "Prison Pit" with CBR News  "Restrained" is not a word one
uses when describing the comics work of Johnny Ryan. Neither is
genteel.  For several years now, Ryan has been breaking just
about every sexual, ethnic, racial and societal taboo possible,
all for the sake of a good belly laugh. Books like "Angry Youth
Comics," "Blecky Yuckerella" and "Comic Book Holocaust" are a
raised middle finger to political correctness and the more
rarified, serious sensibilities of the burgeoning alt-comix
movement, while frequently being utterly hilarious.  Now Ryan
has upped the ante with "Prison Pit," a Grand Guignol, no-holds
barred action tale set in a grim prison world where the brutal
anti-hero C.F. (don't ask what his name stands for) must battle
one dangerous monster/fellow prisoner after another. Stripping
away virtually all of the jokes, Pit combines Ryan's interest in
horror films, manga, f