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...Rall, president-elect of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, mocking the outcry...
...Jennifer T. Rall ’05 was initially confused by what she termed “a sudden increase in the number of vaguely European douche-cocks” in circulation during the last two weekends. The mystery was cleared up when Rall remembered that the Spee has been padlocked?...
...Afghanistan and Back," also makes for a fascinating look at the life of the foreign press. Sleeping on vermin-infested mats in freezing bungalows, Rall describes how they all became walking ATMs, dolling out $120 a day for translators and $800 for ten-minute car rides. But who's exploiting who in such an impoverished country? When a Northern Alliance leader tells the journalists at the front, "If you stay after dark some of my troops will rob you. And maybe worse," it becomes a "commuter war," complete with parking attendants. Even under constant threat of bombs, robbery and murder...
Fast and crude, Rall's drawing style perfectly matches the urgency and tone of the book. Boxy, flat characters with both eyes on the sides of their head inhabit environs with only the barest of detail. The cartoons function strictly as a way to efficiently set the place and action. As a result the fifty-pages-long comic in the middle of the book makes much of the prose chapters redundant. It does seem like the speediness of this book's appearance comes at the price of cohesiveness...
...Afghanistan and Back," makes a fascinating contribution as both comix and journalism. Though Ted Rall's relentlessly snarky editorialization limits his usefulness as a historian, he takes full advantage of the medium's strength as a you-are-there tool. With this book Rall finds news in the world and a new kind of comix journalism...