Why Do They Kill Me?
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: July 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781560976639
Subjects: Cartoons & comic strips; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Graphic Satire And Humor; Comics & Graphic Novels; Humor; Fiction; Comics & Cartoons; Topic - Political; 2001-; Caricatures and cartoons; Politics and government; United States
First sentence: There are moments in life when laziness and genius coincide.
Description: "For years Tim Kreider's cartoons, as collected in 2004's The Pain: When Will It End?, were single-panel non sequiturs in the tradition of B. Kliban, about the squalor and ridiculousness of the human condition. But after the takeover by the Bush-Cheney regime and the War on Terror, he focused his bitter humor on more timely issues. His political cartoons have been, in the words of Ted Rall (not known as a sentimental softie), "among the most viscerally anti-Bush work around." As reality has become ever more nightmarish, Kreider's been driven to push the outer limits of humor to parody it. Cynical, astute, blackly hilarious, and deeply biased, these cartoons are neither the superficial, obvious jibes that appear in your daily paper's editorial section nor the didactic left-wing rants syndicated in your local alternative weekly; they are the artistic equivalent of hollow-point bullets fired from a high-powered rifle with a laser sight directly into the brain of the Bush administration."--Amazon.com.