‘Tedward’ is a delight of deserved misfortune | News World

There is no shortage of hapless, socially maladjusted male protagonists in the world of comics, whether it’s the solemn protagonists of Charles Burns, the unjustly egotistical Fante Bukowski, or even the presumably exaggerated autobiography of Jeffrey Brown.

Josh Pettinger’s Tedward is a worthy addition to that role call but screwed much further down into the distressingly absurd. Friendless, jobless, deeply misinformed about women and sex, Tedward’s an abject tailspin of a character who often finds himself unwillingly pulled into events just beyond his control.

The book begins with a breakup and ends in prison. The events between are a blur of cringing awkwardness held aloft by a character just oblivious enough to allow for a sort of maligned empathy from the…more

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