A Waste of Time

The first full-length collection of irreverent and sweet comic strips from Rick Worley. Featuring a foreword by StevieD and EvilJeff from the Comic Book Queers podcast.

Foul-mouthed, sex-obsessed and misanthropic, Rick is no ordinary cute cartoon rabbit. The strips in this hysterically funny, surprisingly sweet collection range from fantasy tales about a closeted fundamentalist teddy bear, an oversexed fox, and a doomed robot love affair to autobiographical comics that share maybe a little too much information about the author. In their quest for contentment, the characters fail, fail, and sometimes fail again, but they never stop looking. There’s always the chance they’ll find that one person who was worth the search.

Or maybe not.

136 pages. 9.75″x6.75″.
Black and white interiors, color cover with gloss coating.
$19.99 USD retail price.

Distributed by:
Diamond Distributors (North America and United Kingdom, item #SEP111192)
Prerogatives/PrideCatalog.com
Last Gasp
Haven Distributors
Bulldog Books (Australia)

VIEWS AND REVIEWS:

“There’s a brutal frankness and honesty coming from these foxes and teddy bears that you rarely see anywhere else. Comics are the one of the last havens to be truly offensive and beautifully unapologetic.” — from the Foreword by StevieD and EvilJeff from the Comic Book Queers podcast.

“Beautifully drawn, hilarious, wistful, profane and very human. Rick Worley’s A Waste of Time knocked me out.” — Robert Kirby, creator of Curbside, Boy Trouble and THREE.

“Rick Worley’s insightful A Waste of Time comic strips are simultaneously tender and perverse—like his bunny.” — Howard Cruse, author of Stuck Rubber Baby and Wendel.

Review on Lambda Literary by Cathy Camper — “The bunny uses his drawing skills as a pick-up trick, meeting young guys, inviting them home to pose, art modeling digressing to sex. It’s odd seeing realistic-looking guys conversing with cartoon animals, even more unnerving seeing them inter-porking. It’s not sexy, but it’s hella funny.”

Review on Read About Comics by Greg McElhatton — “Gay or straight, most readers will find a lot here that rings true; the inability to pin down where a relationship is going, the desire for steps that clearly aren’t going to happen, the big gestures that go over like a lead balloon. By the time the chapter came to a close, I had a new-found respect for Worley and A Waste of Time; he’d clearly found his voice in the comic and was moving it in interesting directions.”

Review in the Bay Area Reporter by Roberto Friedman — It’s rare to see the sometimes kinky sides of gay sexuality portrayed with such tenderness and knowing candor. If the habitues of Worley’s world are footloose and sorta depraved—but in a good way—his cartoons are solid keepers.”

Review at cxPulp by Andrea Speed — ”I found this book riveting and hard to put down. It’s very relatable whether you’re gay, straight, or an anthropomorphized rabbit. It’s a little ironic that a comic with so many animal proxies is so very human.”

Review at GayLeague.com by Joe Palmer — ”…while he cites the auto bio comics work of R. Crumb and Jeffrey Brown for thematic inspiration, Worley has his own voice. Oh dear, the die hard spandex crowd just had a collective wide-eyed stare at those names. Don’t you worry! You can enjoy this book without danger of your superhero-lover card being revoked.”

Review at Pink Kryptonite — ”Take the authenticity of Pekar’s American Splendor, and blend it with classicist artcomix values, and you get an idea of the beauty behind Rick’s book. He even goes so far as to invite all his readers so moved by his work to contact him and be his groupies. Literally fucking with your audience. It’s genius.”

Review at Starving for Ink — ”Ultimately, A Waste of Time is just the opposite. Worley has given us a refreshing dose of reality that I believe people will relate to, whether they’re gay, straight, or in between.”