Since then, Chippendale has been touring and recording with Lightning Bolt, working on his web comic Puke Force and plugging steadily away at the recently released brick of a book If 'n Oof, which we could try to summarize, but couldn't even get remotely close to doing justice.

It was pretty much the perfect distillation of the entire Fort Thunder ethos. The result was Ninja, a massive hardcover that tracked Chippendale's childhood characters and expanded upon them from a more adult vantage point. Not too long ago, he linked up with Picturebox to start publishing his work in more permanent form. Or maybe you know him from the Fort Thunder art collective that grew out of Providence and spawned a whole movement of dudes making intricate drawings and zines and comics with stony childlike wonder.

Chippendale's artwork makes each panel a masterpiece of thrumming linework and lo-fi magic, as his storytelling wends and winds its way to a fascinating conclusion.Chances are, you're probably familiar with Brian Chippendale because he is the drummer in the spastic art/noise/punk group Lightning Bolt. Sardonic and self-aware, Puke Force asks all the right questions, providing a startling and on-point take on contemporary social issues. Throughout this dystopic graphic novel, Chippendale uses humor and a frantic drawing style to show how the insidious nature of corporate greed and the commodification of everything have warped society into a killing machine. We see the inevitable as the characters bicker or celebrate, unaware of what's coming. A bomb explodes in a coffee shop: the incident is played out over and over again from the perspective of each table in the shop, revisiting moments from ten and twenty years before. In scathingly funny single-page strips that build and build, he takes on social media narcissism, governmental propaganda, racism, and a culture of violence, skewering the malice of the right and the hypocrisies of the left. obsessively detailed feel like been shot straight from his brain onto the page.' - Village Voice Puke Force is social satire written dark and dense across Brian Chippendale's deconstructed multiverse of walking, talking M&Ms, hamsters, and cycloptic-yet-glamorous trivia hosts.

If 'n Oof by Brian Chippendale