Snelson: Comedy Is Dying

Meet Melville Snelson: an edgy standup comic, white male division, who almost hit it big in the ‘90s. His act hasn’t aged well, and neither has he. Balding, sagging, and bitter, Snelson struggles to navigate a newly diverse comedic landscape and a younger generation’s definition of edgy. A hilarious and strangely poignant graphic novel of comedy in the 2020s, by writer Paul Constant (Planet of the Nerds) and artist Fred Harper (Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Terror).

I love this book. I know this character. Wait-AM I this character? Damn you Fred Harper!

-Patton Oswalt