KAZ discusses his new book UNDERWORLD: FROM HOLLYWOOD TO HOBOKEN with BEN SCHWARTZ

Underworld: From Hoboken to Hollywood (Fantagraphics Books)

Join underground cartoonist Kaz, and writer Ben Schwartz, to discuss the first ever complete collection of Underworld, the award wining alt-weekly strip of brilliant parody-like characters in their off kilter city of Underworld. 

Praise for Underworld

"Kaz is the last of the Mohicans. True hardcore. His shit is the shit." - Jack Black

"I started reading Kaz' comics in the early '90s-hilarious! I love his distorted point of view. When he came on board to work on SpongeBob, I was nautically nonsensed!" - Stephen Hillenburg

"[Kaz' strip] 'Look-Away Popeye' made me sit and contemplate the medium for two hours. The back of Popeye's head as he looked away! If it wasn't for Kaz I never would have started drawing comics professionally. He made it seem possible." - Tony Millionaire

"Kaz' comics make me feel crazy. But in a delightful way that I'm not sure I want to read anything normal ever again." - Julia Wertz

Born in Hoboken, NJ, Kaz began his comics career in the 1980's as a contributor to Raw magazine. In 1992 Kaz createdUnderworld, published by Fantagraphics, and has continued to create weekly strips that have been published all over the country. Kaz now lives in Los Angeles, working as a writer and animator on shows like SpongeBob Squarepants, andPhineas and Ferb.

Ben Schwartz has written jokes for the 84th Oscars, Letterman monologues, Wits, as Suck.com’s Bertolt Blecht, and his screenplay Home By Christmas is on the 2011 Blacklist. As a journalist and critic, he has written for The New Yorker, Lapham’s Quarterly, Bookforum, The Baffler, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and is currently a judge for theLos Angeles Times Book Prizes for graphic novels and comics. He is currently working on a history of American humor set between the two world wars, published by Fantagraphics. He lives in Los Angeles and can be followed on Twitter at @benschwartzy.