Beat It, Rufus

From the author ofFante BukowskiandJoseph Smith and the Mormons, a hysterical character comedy about an aging rock-god-in-his-own-mind forced to face the music.

Publisher Marketing: Van Sciver's new power ballad Beat It, Rufus absolutely rocks.-- "Comics Beat" Review Quotes : This new book by Noah Van Sciver is about an aging deluded loser who continues to harbor 1980s hair metal fantasies of headlining an arena. I'm hooked from that alone, but add the leopard print spine and now you've got a book I badly want for my shelf.-- "Comics Bookcase" Review Quotes : A mix between slice-of-life character study and slacker comedy-drama... prime Noah Van Sciver territory from a cartoonist who never disappoints.-- "Broken Frontier" Review Quotes : With Rufus , [Van Sciver] superbly skewers the delusions of a faded never-was, placing the character in one ridiculous situation after another in his futile attempt to remain relevant in a world that long ago passed him by.-- "Cinema Sentries" Review Quotes : A must-read comic about a must-avoid person.-- "Publishers Weekly" Publisher Marketing : Rufus Baxter is an aging, professionally unemployed loser, desperately -- delusionally -- hanging on to his 1980s hair metal fantasies of headlining arenas, despite so much evidence to the contrary (like audience members ducking when he tosses promo t-shirts at an open-mic night). The rest of his bandmates in Funky Cool died decades ago in a horrible plane crash on the cusp of their first big break. When he gets kicked out of the Denver storage unit he's been illegally sleeping in, his only prospect is a last-second wedding gig the very next day -- in Wyoming. A hop in his car, and possibly a peyote button or two, sends Baxter on a psychedelic and existential road trip through his past, and forces him to confront every bad decision he's made along the way.

Format: Hardcover | Pages: 220 | Publication Date: 2025-03-11