Raisin Pie is an American alternative comics series by husband-and-wife duo Rick Altergott and Ariel Bordeaux. Fantagraphics, which marketed the series as "gosh-darned good comics by the domesticated duo of ... Bordeaux [and] Altergott",[1] published five issues of the series between October 2002 and July 2007. The series was nominated for a Harvey Award for Best New Comic of 2002.[1]
Overview
Like the Hernandez brothers' Love and Rockets, Altergott and Bordeaux essentially split the book, each doing their own ongoing storylines. Altergott's "Blessed Be" storyline featured his long-running character Doofus and a drug dealer "trying to get back at the judge who sent him to jail" ("and something to do with Satanists"),[2] while Bordeaux's "Maple Valley Public Library" was "the story of an irate woman who's trying to get a book banned and the woman who has to deal with her."[2]
AtomicAvenue.com characterized the series this way:
Made up of a series of short strip cartoons and one longer tale which ventures into the bizarre happenings in small-town America revolving around teen sex, drug dealing, lonely homeless people and religious separatism, the book is one long commentary on life outside the norm. One of the more interesting stories is "Maple Valley Public Library" which explores the dangers of censorship and the people who would impose it.[3]
