Just When You Thought Things Couldn't Get Worse The Cartoons and Comic Strips of Edward Sorel

by Edward Sorel

by Edward Sorel
Edward Sorel is widely recognized as America's premier illustrator. But when he wasn't painting covers and making drawings for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Time, and Rolling Stone , he was making comic strips. Sorel's strips are iconoclastic, cynical, and universally excoriating. No target escapes his watchful wrath: politicians, theological dynasties, idealogues left and right, lawyers, publishers, and the usual gang of movers and shakers (nor does he spare himself). Culled from the pages of The Nation , the Village Voice, Penthouse , and other magazines, Sorel proves he is that most dangerous of creatures - a cartoonist with a chip on his shoulder.

Genres: Humor, Comics

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Isidore · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Superpen" is the best Sorel collection. This later book, which reprints a few pieces from the aforementioned, finds Sorel tediously preoccupied with his anti-Christian prejudices, and has little of the range and variety of its predecessor. His art is still stunning to look at, however.

[David Weigel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some simplistic and repetitive anti-Christian Right jokes drag this down; not because they're mean, because you see no effort in them. Art's lovely and inviting, with showcases like a splash page of a new, modern hell that follows Republican preferences. Personal taste but this whole era of comedy feels dried-out to me. If you're more interested in it, buy buy buy.

[William · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun. Well-Drawn. Scathing in all the right places.