Twilight of the Assholes (The Chronicles of the Era of Darkness 2004-2009)

Цена 23.31 - 49.50 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781606993989

Брэнд Fantagraphics Books

Автор

Страниц 288

Год выпуска 2011

Tim Kreider refuses to let the Bush administration off easy.Tim Kreider’s first cartoon collection, The Pain—When Will It End? was one of the few bastions of sanity throughout the awful aberration in American history known as the Bush Administration. The end of his second volume of political cartoons, Why Do They Kill Me?, saw its author in despair over the 2004 election. In this new volume, Twilight of the Assholes, as reality gets ever bleaker, Kreider’s humor becomes increasingly apocalyptic, deranged, and hilarious. He juxtaposes the Biblical Christ with His blonde, flag-draped, machine-gun-toting American incarnation in “Jesus vs. Jeezus,” proposes a third political party that represents Americans’ real values in “The Sex Party,” draws the dead Saddam Hussein as a mischievous invisible imp still causing trouble, and envisions the officials of the Bush administration getting their comeuppance in the grisly fashion of Dick Tracy villains. And he finds two cartoons’...