Oddjob (comics)

Oddjob
Publication information
Publisher	Slave Labor Graphics
Schedule	Bimonthly
Format	Standard
Publication date	Spring 1999 - May 2001
No. of issues	8
Main character(s)	Moe, Investigator of the Odd
Creative team
Created by	Ian Smith and Tyson Smith
Written by	Ian Smith
Artist(s)	Tyson Smith
Collected editions
Oddjob: The Collected Stories, Vol. 1	ISBN 978-0943151632

Last updated April 28, 2019

Oddjob is a comic book series published by Slave Labor Graphics and created by Ian Smith and Tyson Smith, featuring Moe, Investigator of the Odd. The comic is an action/humor series with absurdist tendencies. Oddjob was published in bimonthly from Spring 1999-May 2001. All eight issues (and an additional story) were collected in a trade paperback by Slave Labor in 2003.

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative, usually, dialog contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. Although comics has some origins in 18th century Japan, comic books were first popularized in the United States and the United Kingdom during the 1930s. The first modern comic book, Famous Funnies, was released in the U.S. in 1933 and was a reprinting of earlier newspaper humor comic strips, which had established many of the story-telling devices used in comics. The term comic book derives from American comic books once being a compilation of comic strips of a humorous tone; however, this practice was replaced by featuring stories of all genres, usually not humorous in tone.

Slave Labor Graphics (SLG) is an independent American comic book publisher, well known for publishing darkly humorous, offbeat comics. Creators associated with SLG over the years include Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Woodrow Phoenix, Jhonen Vasquez, and Andi Watson.

Absurdist fiction is a genre of fictional narrative, most often in the form of a novel, play, poem, or film, that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value. Common elements in absurdist fiction include satire, dark humor, incongruity, the abasement of reason, and controversy regarding the philosophical condition of being "nothing." Works of absurdist fiction often explore agnostic or nihilistic topics.

Characters

Moe is assisted by the failed clown Robin and a former baseball player Moose Mulligan, who owns the bar The Spittoon (the base of their operation). Some of their adversaries include Amish cyborg, sloths and living gummi men.

A clown is a comic performer who employs slapstick or similar types of physical comedy, often in a mime style.

The Amish are a group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships with Swiss German Anabaptist origins. They are closely related to, but distinct from, Mennonite churches. The Amish are known for simple living, plain dress, and reluctance to adopt many conveniences of modern technology.

A cyborg, short for "cyberneticorganism", is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts. The term was coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline.

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