On Sale Now! When the mysterious gray book that drives their twisted relationship goes missing, Ollister and Adelaide lose their post-modern marbles. He plots revenge against art patriarch The Platypus, while she obsesses over their anti-love affair. Meanwhile, the art school set experiments with bad drugs, bad sex, and bad ideas. But none of these desperate young minds has counted on the intrusion of a punk named Punk and his potent sex drug. This wild slew of characters get caught up in the gravitational pull of The Platypus' giant art ball, where a confused art terrorism cell threatens a ludicrous and hilarious implosion. Zach Plague has written and designed a hybrid typo/graphic novel which skewers the art world, and those boring enough to fall into its traps.
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An intrigue of mundane proportion
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"Designed to death, Plague’s seething contempt for banal art gives this satire an edge" —Publisher's Weekly
"One absurd plot twist after another, a tie-dyed spiral of schemes, porn, and drug-induced insanity. Though boring's style and theme make it easily likened to Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, its made-up slang, depraved characters, and sour ending bring it closer to A Clockwork Orange." —The Austin Chronicle
"Alienation devices(!) Ridiculous(!) Cute(!) Antic(!) Anticlimactic(!) Clever(!) Fairly interesting(!) Mostly well written(!) Occasionally funny(!) Sex(!) Drugs(!) Stale satire(!) Art world nonsense(!) —Chicago Reader (exclamation points added for emphasis)
Portland Mercury interview with Zach Plague about booty.
"Besides featuring some gorgeous design, boring7 starts out with one couple's endangered anti-love affair and ends with art terrorism" *Suggested* by The Seattle Stranger.
"With graphic surprises, exotic fonts, and format zaniness on every page, Zach Plague's new "hybrid typo/graphic novel" boring boring boring boring boring boring boring is anything but." —Interview with the East Bay Express
"This is the most negative book I have ever read. It's as if that lemon-headed baby from "The Family Guy" did audio commentary for the DVD of Terry Zwigoff's "Art School Confidential." —Austin American-Statesman
"Dang cool." — *Highly Recommended* by the Willamette Week
"A sometimes esoteric title." —Eugene Weekly
"Unique is sometimes not strong enough a word to describe a book. A brilliant work of satire, Boring is for any fan of fiction seeking something different." —Midwest Book Review
"Written in a serious tone—sometimes coming off as tounge-in-cheek, other times as pompously sincere—the book is dripping with irony and self-awareness." —UR Chicago
"Author/Designer Zach Plague is known for thinking beyond the binding when it comes to presentation, but his debut novel... defies classification." —The Onion (Austin A.V. Club)P I X E L * P R A I S E
"An intelligent, sometimes witty, and sometimes sad book that offers sharp criticism of the art world, and our society in general. Boredom has brought many an empire to its knees in the past, and Zach Plague has done a fine job of depicting the ennui that sucks the life out of us." —Richard Marcus, BlogCritics Magazine
"Sparkling, Sexy, Bizarre." —Three Imaginary Girls
"boring boring is an entertaining romp with a hilarious cast of characters who keep the plot moving along in several different directions. We loved it." —Art MoCo
"Zach Plague caters to those with fleeting ADD. Jump in anywhere for quirky character studies or definitions of words such as beeramid (a pyramid of empty beer cans)." —DailyCandy
"A hybrid typo/graphic novel that is as artistically stunning as it is well-written. Boring... is a unique and beautiful debut." —Interview at What to Wear During an Orange Alert
"A beautiful hybrid of typography and imagery." —Design Milk
"A dizzying mixture of obsessive typography and design wrapped around a bonkers tale of sex and drugs." —Under the Covers
"boring boring boring boring boring boring boring is a collection of incidents that never builds any momentum." —PopMatters
"What makes this book stand out amongst many others is its beautiful hybrid of typography and imagery. I feel like a kid in a candyshop. *drooling*" —This That These and Those
"A rollicking good skewer of hipsters, the art scene and most commonly held notions of book layout and typography." —O-Scene
"I’ve only seen an online version of this book, but I love the graphic concept behind it." —Cheeta FightR A N D O M * P R A I S E
"Hahaha! A really innovative book."—NPR
“This book gleans the generational malaise of its characters, floundering and beautiful. It manages to amble along the surface of their lives falling here and there into pockets of private desires and loneliness. These are the stunning moments, buttressed by deft absurdity, hilarious antics and wordplay. boring boring boring boring boring boring boring is fantastic.”—Ryan Markel, Author of 101 Reasons Not To Have Children.
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