Kickstarting Comics: Craig Yoe’s ‘Woman & Man+’ Underground Comix

by Richard Bruton

Another great looking comic project to get behind now — Craig Yoe’s Woman & Man+ Underground Comix — a wildly surreal autobiographical tale of Yoe’s troubles with love and life…

Some 50+ years after his first underground comix release, author, publisher, comics historian, animator, designer, and comic artist is working with Clover Press to publish the new wordless graphic novel Woman & Man+ with a crowdfunding campaign running on Kickstarter.

Plenty of tiers to look at, plus original art, sketches, original art faux comix covers, and a lot more available at the Kickstarter.

Here’s how Clover Press describe the book…

“A wildly surreal autobiographical comic which will be crowdfunded on Kickstarter. The graphic novel depicts the artist losing his love, his home country, and (some say) his sanity—and tells the story of his struggle to reinvent himself.

Yoe’s passion for drawing comics was sidetracked for over a half a century by a career as a creative director for Jim Henson and the Muppets, Disney, Nickelodeon, and MTV. Coming back to his roots, he now dives deep into sex, horror, and drama, with a hint of humor and a whiff of hope.

The highly anticipated loudly wordless graphic novel Woman & Man+ has a revolutionary approach that breaks all the rules of conventional comic storytelling. Steranko meets Hieronymus Bosch by way of R. Crumb and Dali. The unique art style has been deemed, “Yoe-Brow”!”

And Yoe has this to say…

“I’m high as a kite from excitement that, thanks to my pals at Clover Press, Woman & Man+ is being offered to you. The humble-underground comix-slash-pretentious-art book is a psychedelic telling of my fleeing the U.S. to hook up with underground comix comrades in Berlin, then booted out of Germany to find solace—then devastating heartbreak—in the Canary Islands. Finally the Philippines have granted me asylum… and hope. My story is all told through comics surrealism, IT’S A LOUD WORDLESS BOOK!!!”