‘PEOPLE OF THE WORLD… RELAX!’ For the first time ever, the two issues of C Comics (1964 – 1966) – offshoot of the legendary 1960s New York School magazine, C Poetry – are available in one sumptuous volume. A glorious mix of irreverent kitsch and highfalutin social satire, C Comics is the brainchild of Joe Brainard – cartoonist, poet, painter, ‘assemblagist genius’. The idea was simple: Brainard would draw the comic strips with empty speech bubbles and give them to his poet-friends (Frank O’Hara, Barbara Guest, John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan) to fill in the words. The result is pleasing on the eye and mischievous too, a paean to the collaborative energy of mid-sixties New York.