Like R. Crumb Richard Suicides work combines social commentary with undergroundart comics in a murk of densely inked urban anomie. He uses the local atmosphere of Centre Sud the poorest neighbourhood in Montreal as fodder for his stories. A writer and artist of savage wit his humourous and often absurd comics are an amazing testimony of life in the East End. Much of his early work has only appeared in French in various international anthologies including Comix 2000 France Stripburger Slovenia Th