Those Annoying Post Bros

Those Annoying Post Bros.
The cover of Those Annoying Post Bros. #1 (Vortex Comics, Jan. 1985). Art by Matt Howarth.
Publication information
Publisher	Vortex Comics (Jan. 1985-Jan. 1990) Rip Off Press (Apr. 1991-Apr. 1994) MU Press (Aug. 1994-1998)
Format	Ongoing series
Genre	independent comic
Publication date(s)	Jan. 1985 – 1998
No. of issues	63
Main character(s)	Ron Post Russ Post Bulldaggers Savage Henry
Creative team
Created by	Matt Howarth
Written by	Matt Howarth, Lou Stathis
Artist(s)	Matt Howarth
Letterer(s)	Ty Templeton, Matt Howarth
Collected editions
Das Loot	ISBN
Disturb the Neighbors	ISBN

Those Annoying Post Bros. is an independent comic mostly by Matt Howarth about two fun-loving bad boys, Ron Post and Russ Post, from the fictional Bugtown. Equally inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Philip K. Dick, and ambient electronic music, the series ran for 63 issues (published by a number of companies) from 1985–1998, making it one of the longest-running indy comics titles.

The Post Bros. are natives of a mysterious transdimensional locality known as Bugtown, where all residents possess the ability to engage in Interdimensional travel. Anyone killed in Bugtown or brought there immediately after death will soon regenerate. According to creator Howarth, the Post Bros. are "are greedy, pathologically trigger-happy, completely corruptible, endlessly irritating, psychotically solipsistic and — unfortunately for all — possessed of the ability to instantly shift between all possible reality levels."

The spinoff character Savage Henry, guitarist for the Bugtown band the Bulldaggers, ended up with his own series, published from 1987–1994.

The real-world experimental musician Conrad Schnitzler of (Tangerine Dream and Kluster) was a regular guest in Those Annoying Post Bros., appearing in issues #2, 5, 42, 48, 50, and 63 (with cameos in issues #7, 16, and 41); and Annuals #1–2 (with a cameo In #3). In addition, the real-world avante-garde art collective The Residents appeared in Those Annoying Post Bros.: Stalking Ralph (Aeon Press, 1995).

The Post Brothers debuted in the early 1980s in Heavy Metal magazine, and their adventures were serialized there for a number of issues. In 1985, Vortex Comics began publishing Those Annoying Post Bros. It ran for 18 issues until 1990. In 1991, the title was taken over by Rip Off Press, which published an additional 20 issues until 1994.