Crap Hound

What People Said

“Crap Hound is mesmerizing — browsing the pages is a near-mystical experience.”
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing, 2005
“Sean Tejaratchi is a taxonomic guerrilla and semiotic hoarder.”
Doug Harvey, Artillery, 2019
“Gorgeous and disturbing.”
Heinous, quoted in The Book of Zines
“Crap Hound plunders its graphics from hundreds of sources and then features them in gorgeous, endlessly fascinating mosaics and layouts.”
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing, 2008
“It’s like playing a party game I don’t know the rules to, and like shopping for a new tattoo.”
Gene Ambaum, Library Comic, 2020, on The Big Book of Unhappiness
“…the ‘War and Peace’ of semiotically appropriated collage graphic narrative.”
Doug Harvey, Artillery, 2019, on The Big Book of Unhappiness
“Each page is a kind of collage of stark, black-and-white imagery of these things, laid out with a lot of wit and yet with a solemn appreciation for the subject.… I could look at this thing for hours.”
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing, 2006, on Death, Phones & Scissors
“It will provide a lifetime of browsing enjoyment.”
Mark Frauenfelder, Boing Boing, 2019, on The Big Book of Unhappiness
“Sean works with several little boxes at a time and not only puts things in them that don’t belong there, but he then puts these boxes side by side which are more comfortably left far apart.”
Shark Fear, Shark Awareness, quoted in The Book of Zines
“…mutating the staid inventories of a Dover Pictorial Archive, with a dose of punk plunderphonics, into something rich and strange.”
Doug Harvey, Artillery, 2019
“It is often hilarious and sometimes disturbing — every time I flip the book open I need to see what came before and after the page I landed on.”
Gene Ambaum, Library Comic, 2020, on The Big Book of Unhappiness
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