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There are no characters in “Get Your War On”—just anonymous talking heads—and the pictures Rees uses seldom change from week to week. The punch lines are quick, the jokes sarcastic, and the humor based vaguely on the frequent...
Just a year earlier, Rees was working as a temp in the Harvard Planning and Real Estate office. But, thanks to Osama Bin Laden and the editors of Rolling Stone, Rees unexpectedly rode his new comic strip to underground cultural icon status.
Combining the obscenity of “South Park” and the sarcasm of “The Simpsons,” Rees has made his name by using the same two or three pieces of distinctive clip art for his visuals and referencing current events with a consistent...
In fact, Rees tried to hang the strip up back in 2004, optimistically telling his editors at Rolling Stone that he would discontinue “Get Your War On” if John F. Kerry managed to bump President George W. Bush out of the White House in November...
Rees never got to deliver on his promise, of course, and last Friday, at a reading and book signing in Boylston Hall sponsored by the Harvard Advocate, he admitted to a captivated audience that he was in the midst of a “professional crisis.” To...