'Superbad' book takes balls to read
Andy Boyle
Issue date: 4/2/08 Section: Features
When my editor asked me to review this book, I knew the exact reason why: It takes a dick to know some dicks.
"Superbad: The Drawings" is a collection of the cock and balls drawn and shown during a hilariously awkward scene in the movie "Superbad." You know, all of those big veiny ones.
This book was probably one of the longest and hardest books I've read in the past few weeks. David Goldberg's illustrations seem to jump off of the page, thrusting their cultural significance into your face.
More importantly, after reading it, the book doesn't leave a bad taste in your mouth.
In the importance of full disclosure, I think it's important that you know I have a perpendicular pipe of my own, but I promise that won't affect my book review. Us journalists have standards,
you know?
Let's start with the forward: Seth Rogan (a guy I bare no resemblance to who happens to play chubby curly-haired guys) and Evan Goldberg ("Superbad" writer and producer) joke about drawing each other's wangs while they were young. Somewhere during the process of writing "Superbad," Rogan came up with the reason the characters Seth and Becca would dislike each other.
"Seth should have a dick-drawing problem that he constantly tries to hide," writes Rogan in the forward. "Becca should end up seeing one of his drawings and tattle on him. Then he gets in trouble with the principal and has to see a shrink, and that is why Seth hates Becca."
Then came the legal ramifications of having pictures of so many tallywhackers on the screen.
Wrote Evan: "Apparently it's not legal for underage kids to see cartoon images of penises."
Anywho, Evan Goldberg's brother David ended up drawing most of the uptight citizens.
My favorite torch of cupid is "Che Dick," which satirizes that all-too-often-seen-on-T-shirts-of-kids-who-like-Rage photo of
Che Guevara.
The best part about the crotch cobra drawings is that most of them are drawn on loose-leaf paper. That's how they were presented in the film, but it's
"Superbad: The Drawings" is a collection of the cock and balls drawn and shown during a hilariously awkward scene in the movie "Superbad." You know, all of those big veiny ones.
This book was probably one of the longest and hardest books I've read in the past few weeks. David Goldberg's illustrations seem to jump off of the page, thrusting their cultural significance into your face.
More importantly, after reading it, the book doesn't leave a bad taste in your mouth.
In the importance of full disclosure, I think it's important that you know I have a perpendicular pipe of my own, but I promise that won't affect my book review. Us journalists have standards,
you know?
Let's start with the forward: Seth Rogan (a guy I bare no resemblance to who happens to play chubby curly-haired guys) and Evan Goldberg ("Superbad" writer and producer) joke about drawing each other's wangs while they were young. Somewhere during the process of writing "Superbad," Rogan came up with the reason the characters Seth and Becca would dislike each other.
"Seth should have a dick-drawing problem that he constantly tries to hide," writes Rogan in the forward. "Becca should end up seeing one of his drawings and tattle on him. Then he gets in trouble with the principal and has to see a shrink, and that is why Seth hates Becca."
Then came the legal ramifications of having pictures of so many tallywhackers on the screen.
Wrote Evan: "Apparently it's not legal for underage kids to see cartoon images of penises."
Anywho, Evan Goldberg's brother David ended up drawing most of the uptight citizens.
My favorite torch of cupid is "Che Dick," which satirizes that all-too-often-seen-on-T-shirts-of-kids-who-like-Rage photo of
Che Guevara.
The best part about the crotch cobra drawings is that most of them are drawn on loose-leaf paper. That's how they were presented in the film, but it's
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