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ATTITUDE 3: THE NEW SUBVERSIVE ONLINE CARTOONISTS features the work of 21 cartoonists who are moving from the world of print into the Internet to produce some of the funniest, outrageous and innovative comics around.

In keeping with the format of the first two volumes in the ATTITUDE series of comics anthologies, ATTITUDE 3 includes cartoons by, interviews with and personal ephemera (like childhood photos) of each creator. Featured are innovative artists who focus on politics, others on social commentary and still more who are out to make you laugh. Find out why webcomics are the hottest new comics around through this primer to some of the medium's brightest talents!

The featured cartoonists are:

1. Rob Balder: "Partially Clips"
2. Dale Beran and David Hellman: "A Lesson is Learned But the Damage is Irreversible"
3. Matt Bors: "Idiot Box"
4. Steven L. Cloud: "Boy on a Stick and Slither"
5. M.e. Cohen: "HumorInk"
6. Chris Dlugosz: "Pixel"
7. Thomas K. Dye: "Newshounds"
8. Mark Fiore: "Fiore Animated Cartoons"
9. Dorothy Gambrell : "Cat and Girl"
10. Nicholas Gurewitch: "The Perry Bible Fellowship"
11. Brian McFadden: "Big Fat Whale"
12. Eric Millikin: "Fetus-X"
13. Ryan North: "Daily Dinosaur Comics"
14. August J. Pollak: "XQUZYPHYR & Overboard"
15. Mark Poutenis: "Thinking Ape Blues"
16. Jason Pultz: "Comic Strip"
17. Adam Rust: "Adam's Rust"
18. D.C. Simpson: "I Drew This" & "Ozy and Millie"
19. Ben Smith: "Fighting Words"
20. Richard Stevens: "Diesel Sweeties"
21. Michael Zole: "Death to the Extremist"

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #393523 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Rall's third effort in the Attitude series turns its focus to online cartooning, a somewhat nebulous field that Rall has only middling success corralling into a book. There is a basic contradiction involved with publishing Web material in print: if the medium is viable, why does the work need a book? But that speculative question aside, this is a decent massing of some young cartoonists who practice the gag-a-day format in cyberspace. Most are no different from what one might see in a local alternative weekly, with unremarkable but competent drawings, generic gags and so on. But there are a couple of standouts: Nicholas Gurewitch's funny, surreal comics come from a personal, highly idiosyncratic place, as do Ryan North's, who has taken a clip art approach to gags. It's still unclear how these comics benefit from being online, as they don't use any of the features the Web offers (besides nearly free space), nor is it clear if the Web breeds a new kind of cartoon sensibility. Attitude 3 is an entertaining but random assortment of artists who happen to publish on the Web. (July)
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From Booklist
The third set of Rall's profiles of cartoonists he dubs subversive focuses on artists plying their trade online. Mostly unable to break into alternative weeklies, these new cartoonists use the Internet as their venue. A few get paid for simultaneous print appearances, but most self-publish, which allows them the freedom to be more radical than their dead-tree counterparts. Steven L. Cloud's webcomics consist solely of a dialogue between a head on a stick and a blank-faced snake. As Rall aptly notes, the visual style of Eric Millikin's Fetus-X "crosses Edvard Munch with an incipient victim of high-school suicide." Unfortunately, lack of editorial intermediation permits drawing styles including the primitive to the downright crude. The technology doesn't even require real drawing ability. Several of the represented cartoonists rely on digital cutting and pasting, and Michael Zole's strips just show two quarter-circles ("1" and "2") conversing. But the standouts--Mark Fiore's Flash-animated political cartoons and Nicholas Gurewitch's perversely gentle Perry Bible Fellowship--are unique and personal. Gordon Flagg
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From the Author
ATTITUDE 3 is a useful primer to the seemingly byzantine world of online comics. Many of these cartoonists embrace the Internet medium by drawing art specifically suited to the digital form while others do work that simply couldn't appear in print newspapers or magazines. Still others see the Web as a way to market their work directly to the public after being frustrated by clueless editors. All of them have a creative and anarchic spirit that make their work well worth reading and knowing about.

Customer Reviews

Any cartoonist particularly those interested in alternative graphic novels and works will find this absorbing
Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists covers online web cartoonists: over twenty daring, original creators whose works appear on the Net. From love and politics to humor and fun, Attitude 3 brings alternative cartooning to an offline audience in book form, presenting works and interviews with over twenty leading online cartoonists who are not limited by big media constraints and rules. Any cartoonist particularly those interested in alternative graphic novels and works will find this absorbing.