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Hey, Poopie!: Life, Puberty, then the Pursuit of Happiness

by Real-Life Chris

100 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); comics; adult material; catalogue #06-2704; ISBN 1-4251-0946-2; US$17.95, C$20.64, EUR13.99, £9.28

Hey, Poopie! comics are good clean fun for straight and gay audiences alike. Enjoy the laughs as live-in lovers Chris and Lucky bravely and humorously take on the world. www.heypoopie.com

About the Book

Hey, Poopie! is good clean fun for straight and gay comic lovers alike. The strip centers around a nutty pair of gay, live-in lovers and their odd pets. No opportunity for innuendo goes unexplored, and no chance of misunderstanding slips by. Enjoy the laughs as Chris and Lucky - a loveable 20-something gay couple - bravely and humorously take on the world.

Lucky, who is the proverbial voice of reason, is always there to pick up the pieces when life's circumstances knock Chris on his behind, and return him to the straight and narrow... Okay, the gay and narrow, but you get the point. Lucky is Chris' loyal and faithful soul mate: thoughtful, kind, and infintely patient with Chris' never ending foilbles.

Chris is the happy-go-lucky sort who lives from one get-rich scheme to the next. Shamelessly silly, with an penchant for innocently getting himself into trouble, he is charmingly naïve, yet with a ravenous sexual appetite, and an unquenchable crush on television and movie star Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Incidently, Chris the the author's alter ego.

Never before has a gay cartoon couple been so endearing to an audience of both straights and gays of all ages. Hey, Poopie! is not about gayness, but rather about love and laughs and challenges that life throws at any couple, gay or straight. The gay lifestyle, however, lends itself to endless possibilities for circumstancial humor, and we here at Hey, Poopie! are not about to stand by and let Will and Grace get all the laughs.

Parental discretion is advised for children under the age of 13 due to our occasional use of the word "@$$," and relentless sexual innuendo. But rest assured that our primary objective is to provide clean, light-hearted humor at its best - not senseless filth.

About the Author

The author of this book has such a fragile ego and insatiable need for acceptance that he is actually writing his own "About the Author" notes. By "he," of course, I mean "me." So read this shamelessly self-serving diatribe about ME, ME, ME, and then, like me. You may even want to send me money. But enough about that; now more about meeee!

Although the author has always been a devoted fan of such gifted cartoonists as Charles Schulz (Peanuts), Johnny Hart (B.C.), Berkeley Breathed (Bloom County, Outland, Opus), Darby Conley (Get Fuzzy), and Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine), he never considered a career as a cartoonist until the age of 41. For the most of his life Chris Shirley, A.K.A. "Real Life Chris," had enjoyed a successful career as a photographer by day, and a night-club singer by night. He was only 5 years old when he decided to dedicate his life to making music, but truth be told, his underlying motive for this decision was to get close to an older man in his neighborhood who played the guitar, and with whom Chris had fallen deeply in love. The older man was 6.

In Chris's defense, it is a widely accepted notion tht 92% of all guitarists become guitarists for the sole purpose of getting laid. † Okay, so maybe getting laid wasn't exactly what 5-year-old Chris had in mind, but his decision was made for the love of another man, and that was just the begining of sooooo many things to come, including Hey, Poopie!

†margin of error 8% (source of statistic: I made it up)

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