Product Description

TO HELL with those hackneyed mainstream political cartoons! Donkeys and elephants are history. Daily newspaper cartoons make lame jokes about the news while sucking up to the corporations that own them. Here's the NEXT generation of artists out to save the world: political cartoonists who run in your local weekly alternative paper, uncensored and in the raw! ATTITUDE includes cartoons and interviews with: Tom Tomorrow, Peter Kuper, Ruben Bolling, Lloyd Dangle, Andy Singer, Don Asmussen, Clay Butler, Jen Sorensen, Scott Bateman, Tim Eagan, Derf, Lalo Alcaraz, Joe Sharpnack, Eric Bezdek, William L. Brown, Ward Sutton, Stephanie McMillan, Mickey Siporin, Jim Siergey, Ted Rall, & Matt Wuerker.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #802227 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 127 pages

From Booklist
Today's most provocative editorial cartooning isn't in daily newspapers; it is in alternative weeklies. Whereas old-school editorial cartoonists rely on timeworn traditions, topics, and techniques, the new breed tackles contemporary concerns, such as commercialism and environmentalism (invariably from the left), rather than electoral politics, and generally works in comic-strip, instead of single-panel, format. Rall, one of the most prominent newcomers, interviews 20 colleagues and presents generous samplings of their work. Some, such as Tom Tomorrow and Peter Kuper, are relatively familiar because of occasional appearances in mainstream publications like Time and Newsweek; others probably are known only by their local followings. Many don't draw that well; indeed, some can barely draw at all. Their drawings are usually subservient to their scripts, and both take a back seat to their attitude (as in chip-on-the-shoulder), which seems to be the essential ingredient for success in their milieu. The best of them possess so much lacerating wit and unswerving commitment that they fairly shame their hidebound mainstream counterparts into retirement. Gordon Flagg
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From the Author
These artists work in the netherworld between facile categorizations. Because they're passionate and strident, they're too alternative for mainstream daily papers. But they're not always considered alternative by the artsy crowd because they're articulate and actually care about ordinary people's concerns. Perhaps because they defy easy labeling, they're creating the most interesting work in cartooning today. It's an honor to help present this new genre to the public.

Customer Reviews

nice intro to some lesser known cartoonists
I had wished there were more cartoons and less interview text (3 1/2 stars?), but this collection was nonetheless a good introduction to some artists that you might not otherwise find in mainstream publications. The cartoons are not strictly limited to anti-Republican and anti-corporation themes but cover a range of topics including race relations, global warming, consumer culture, etc.

As a reader of the NY Times and Village Voice, I was familiar with the work of Ted Rall, Tom Tomorrow, and Ward Sutton. After finishing Attitude, I ordered a copy of Andy Singer's Cartoons, which is even smaller in size but excellent.