Word: cartoonist
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...known that one of the first books about the war in Afghanistan came from a cartoonist. Ted Rall's "To Afghanistan and Back" (NBM Publishing; 112pp.; $15.95) describes itself as a "graphic travelogue" but belongs in the milieu of war-torn foreign correspondence trail blazed by Joe Sacco's "Palestine" and "Safe Area Gorazde." Unlike those carefully rendered books, however, Rall's has come out quick and dirty, like a dispatch from the front lines of an on-going war. Rall, a syndicated political cartoonist whose weekly "Search and Destroy" appears in alterna-papers, felt the only way to discover...
...well be America's Most-Despised Cartoonist--a title he earned earlier this year by making fun of Sept. 11 widows--but at least Rall came by his iconoclasm the hard way. Last November he went to Afghanistan, where he spent the next few weeks bored, terrified and enraged with the corruption and cynicism he witnessed. Rall's "graphic travelogue" is a gritty mix of photos, prose and his distinctive cartoons, which look as if they were drawn on the back of a math notebook. Though his perpetual jadedness can be infuriating, it's an astringent alternative to government press...
...November, HarperBusiness will publish "Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel" by bestselling cartoonist Scott Adams. According to his publisher, "In this hilarious book, Adams takes a look into the Weasel Zone, the giant gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. In the Weasel Zone, everything is misleading, but not exactly a lie." Huge marketing campaign scheduled...
...Derf's skill as cartoonist and storyteller make "Trashed" and "My Friend Dahmer" two of the most entertaining autobiographical comix I have ever read. By far the more enjoyable read, "Trashed" rivals Charles Bukowski's novel, "Factotum" for minimum-wage comedy. "Dahmer," on the other hand, has its own sort of disgusting verisimilitude. It turns out that Jeffrey Dahmer once got paid to "act" spastic in a middle-American shopping mall, and did it for two hours to the utter obliviousness of the authorities. You couldn't make this stuff...
...Automator” Nakamura throbbed out on to the street. Inside, the crowd was as hip, diverse and giddy as the band’s eponymous debut album: slightly ostentatious, but mostly with a self-deprecating sense of humor. As Nakamura’s set finished, Gorillaz cartoonist (and Tank Girl creator) Jamie Hewlett sipped his beer nervously behind his banks of projectors ranged on a platform at the back of the room. Unlike the first couple of shows in Britain, everyone had a pretty good idea what we were going to get: animated performers and images, projected onto...