B.I.Buke. HIRNPLATZT Zine edition. Signed by the artist.A graphic novel written and illustrated by American cartoonist Michael Olivo, first published in 2012 by Never Press in Oakland, California. The work features an epicly detailed narrative structure involving a convoluted series of flashbacks nested within one another. Originally released in a limited edition, it has undergone multiple reprints, including a 2017 edition of 140 copies.Michael Olivo is an American cartoonist and designer, currently residing in Rutherford, New Jersey.“Except for an opening "fuck" ... the comic is a silent one, tracing the journey of one humanoid creature and his interactions with some sort of cult/collective. A good bit of the comic focuses on the yanking off of someone's head and then the delivery (or rescue?) of that headless body, which spouts blood continuously. While Olivo is no slouch with color, as you can see on his website, B.I. Buke is black and white, contains close-ups of genitalia and...I'm not gonna use the word "weird", because that word seems a little too dismissive. This is a comic more in line with comics-as-music than it is comics-as-screenplay, and its the sort of thing that there really should be more of.” - Tucker Stone, TCJThis edition was published by HIRNPLATZT Zine in Austria."HIRNPLATZT Zine is a limited run magazine published by Hirntrust dedicated to underground arts, alternative comics, illustrations, drawings, collages, photos, scrapbook scum & other visual vomit."
