Kill Your Boyfriend
| Kill Your Boyfriend | |
|---|---|
 Cover of Kill Your Boyfriend one-shot, art by Philip Bond. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Vertigo |
| Format | One-shot |
| Genre | Romance, Black comedy |
| Publication date | June 1995 |
| No. of issues | 1 |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Grant Morrison Philip Bond D'Israeli |
| Written by | Grant Morrison |
| Penciller(s) | Philip Bond |
| Inker(s) | Philip Bond D'Israeli |
| Letterer(s) | Ellie De Ville |
| Editor(s) | Helen Craven Jennifer Lee Tim Pilcher Art Young |
Kill Your Boyfriend is the title of a comic book one-shot written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Philip Bond and D'Israeli for DC Comics Vertigo imprint in June 1995.
Publication history
[edit]Originally published as part of the Vertigo Voices series of one-shots in 1995, Kill Your Boyfriend was reprinted in the prestige format (ISBN 156389453X) in 1998[1] with an afterword from Morrison and a paper fortune teller. A third edition was published in October 2008.[2]
Synopsis
[edit]The story is a darkly comic satire of British youth culture which revolves around a bookish middle class schoolgirl, who has a bland unexciting life until she meets a strange young boy who convinces her to kill her boyfriend. They then go on the run together for a series of anarchic adventures across Britain.
Meeting up with a group of travellers in a double-decker bus, the pair indulge in more crime and sexual experimentation before making their way to Blackpool to meet their final fate.
Writing
[edit]Morrison notes in the afterword of the second edition that the story is inspired in part by the myth of Dionysus.
Reception
[edit]In 2013, ComicsAlliance ranked Boy as #10 on their list of the "50 Sexiest Male Characters in Comics".[3] One critic draws parallels with such films as Natural Born Killers.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Julian Darius' "Sequart Organization": Grant Morrison - Kill Your Boyfriend. Accessed May 29, 2008
- ^ "Kill Your Boyfriend" third printing at DC Comics.com
- ^ Wheeler, Andrew (2013-02-14). "ComicsAlliance Presents The 50 Sexiest Male Characters in Comics". ComicsAlliance. Archived from the original on 2015-10-18. Retrieved 2015-07-28.
- ^ The Savage Critic: "My Life is Choked with Comics #9 - Kill Your Boyfriend & Girl #1-3", September 14, 2007 Archived March 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Accessed May 29, 2008
External links
[edit]- Kill Your Boyfriend at the Grand Comics Database
- Kill Your Boyfriend at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Before All Star - Grant Morrison on Kill Your Boyfriend, Newsarama, November 6, 2008
Reviews
[edit]- Review of Kill Your Boyfriend by Matt Fraction, Art Bomb
- Review of Kill Your Boyfriend at KvltSite