I only knew Jacques Debrot as a grad student and teacher (a good one), so I was surprised at the strong reactions my mention of him produced: delight (I think) from Kasey, horror (I think) from David. I remember towards the end of our tutorial Jacques rather reluctantly admitted that he was a poet and pointed me to some of his comics in Ribot, which at the time I found even more puzzling than I was finding Tender Buttons.

A quick Google turns up Jacques's 2000 book Confusion Comix, a poem in cwhobb?, some stuff from the East Village Poetry Web, and this.