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iTunes Terms and Conditions: The Graphic Novel

The comic artist R. Sikoryak has combined the little read iTunes terms and conditions that we’ve all blithely ignored countless times with his deep knowledge of comics history to produce a truly genius mash-up of the unexpected. His 96-page work “Terms and Conditions” takes that legal language and inserts it into off-kilter renditions of familiar comics like “Peanuts,” “Calvin & Hobbes,” “The Simpsons,” “Spider-Man,” “Batman” and more. The star of each page is an often grossly exaggerated Steve Jobs—who sometimes bulges with super-hero muscle and sometimes springs off the page like your favorite characters from the funny pages. It’s all bizarrely hilarious but a true masterwork of absurdist pop art.

Here are some samples, first in the style of Bill Waterson’s “Calvin & Hobbes”:

In the style of Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts”:

In the style of Steve Ditko’s “Spider-Man”:÷

In the style of Frank Miller’s “The Dark Knight Returns”:

In the style of Dave Gibbons’s “Watchmen”:

You can see all of the pages at itunestandc.tumblr.com and learn more about the print edition of this project, in bookstores March 7th, at drawnandquarterly.com.

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