Product Description

Never shy about commenting on sensitive and controversial political and social events, Prickly City is always timely yet humorous. This first collection of the conservative strip is sure to move right along with today's political current, while giving its readers plenty of reasons to laugh.

Carmen, a straightforward, sensible kid, and her unlikely best friend, Winslow the innocent coyote pup, frolic and tussle in the American Southwest while discussing such hot-button issues as condoms in schools, violent video games, gay marriage, and highly contested presidential campaigns. As Carmen might say, "We may not be correct but we will always be right."

Prickly City creator Scott Stantis has emerged as an up-and-coming conservative social and political voice. His strip is syndicated in more than 40 newspapers, in such big markets as Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Seattle, Denver, Detroit, San Antonio, and Atlanta.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #671593 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Scott Stantis is the editorial cartoonist for the Birmingham News, Alabama's most-read newspaper, and he produces an editorial cartoon weekly for USA Today. His work is syndicated to more than 400 newspapers and has been featured by Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, the New York Daily News, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune.

Customer Reviews

Refreshing
Ignore the fools who claim to have purchased this book without knowing what was in it. Any high school student could read half this book standing in the book store. Those that don't like it, don't like it because it doesn't agree with their politics, plain and simple. I can disagree with a liberal cartoonist's politics, but appreciate their satire. A clever cartoon is a clever cartoon reguardless of whether or not you agree with the opinion. I agree with the politics in prickly city and laugh at the satire.. so for me it's a win win situation.

Wish there's more "Prickly City" books
My newspaper runs the strip in the "opinion" page (after over 2 years in the regular comics page) and it's one of the strips I look forword to everyday.

A lot of people doesn't like the drawing style, but I for one think it's cool looking. It can sometimes be TOO sketchy but it's not too awful. And the writing isn't too bad. Pretty poetic in some strips, actually. So in essence, it's generally has the feel of those ancient strips, with strips about the current pop culture and politics.

This book collects the first 9 months of the strip (from July 2004 to April 2005). I'm hoping there will be more book collections, soon.

So, whether you're a liberal or a conservative, or just plain nuts, I think it's worth reading the strip.

(hey, I think we can all agree the strip is WAY better than "Mallard Fillmore")

Ignore the bad reviews and know what you are buying
It is right-leaning political humor 65% of the time. The rest of the time it makes fun of how "PC" and idiotic our society is becoming. It is very funny at times. Those giving it bad reviews obviously do not share the same political views and thus prove a major point of Prickly City; the left just tries to shout you down and doesn't know how to listen to anything but their own opinion. Reasonable debate is lost on them. This is an excellent book and I look forward to reading the strip everyday.