The Fly Chronicles

Click to enlarge Full color 136pp TPB. April 2005 | $17.95 Diamond #FEB052447

By Michael Blaney

Crawling out of the trash can into trade paperback! A wry look at life through the eyes of the ordinary housefly and his wife and kids, The Fly Chronicles is a series of laugh-out-loud hilarious All-New spot cartoons in the tradition of Gary Larson's The Far Side.

"(Blaney) must have been a bug in several past lives, because there’s no other way to explain how he can so precisely capture a bug’s view of life, and successfully mock humans' over-enlarged egos." (4/5 stars)
-- Lance Eaton @ Curled Up With a Good Book

"A collection of FAR SIDE-style sick panel gags with a fly's-eye view of the world. Literally. Much of it focuses on filth, but while there's a stiff every so often, most of it's pretty funny and surprisingly restrained, as when a dead spider arrives at the gates of Heaven to be greeted by a fly St. Peter, who says 'I hope you don't mind my saying, but the look on your face is priceless.'"
— Steven Grant

"I think it's Brilliant!"
-- Cathy Guisewite, creator of 'Cathy.'

"If I ever find a fly in my soup, I hope it's one of these guys... I know I'll enjoy it."
-- Bill Rechin, co-creator of 'Crock.'

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