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All the Rules Have Changed: More Cartoons by Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a post-punk editorial cartoonist who "exposes the hypocrisy and absurdity of our current social and political state." He has said that editorial cartoons "are an opportunity to basically kick ass, destroy politicians, change the way people think, and just devastate the system from the editorial page." His collection All the Rules Have Changed is filled with dead-on humor, such as his advice to kids in the strip "Kid's Talk": "Even if you make it to adulthood without getting aborted, dumpstered, neglected, molested or murdered, your parents will eventually force you to subsidize their retirement while you struggle to get by ... [so] kill your parents before they kill you." No wonder he was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer in 1996.
96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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Ted Rall
50 books97 followersTed Rall is a prominent left-leaning American political columnist, syndicated editorial cartoonist, and author. He draws cartoons for the news site WhoWhatWhy.org and the email newsletter Counterpoint, and writes for The Wall Street Journal opinion pages.
His political cartoons often appear in a multi-panel comic-strip format and frequently blend comic-strip and editorial-cartoon conventions.
The cartoons appear in approximately 100 newspapers around the United States. He is a former President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and twice the winner of the RFK Journalism Award.
He is the author of 20 books.
His political cartoons often appear in a multi-panel comic-strip format and frequently blend comic-strip and editorial-cartoon conventions.
The cartoons appear in approximately 100 newspapers around the United States. He is a former President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and twice the winner of the RFK Journalism Award.
He is the author of 20 books.
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November 29, 2008
I'm starting to think that maybe it's not such a great idea to read a bunch of pessimistic, dark cartoons from the early 1990s recession when I'm jobless and prospectless in the middle of the late 2000s semi-depression. Maybe I should go get some horrible piece of happy pap by Zig Ziglar instead and bullshit myself into thinking everything's going to be all right.
And so what if Rall's a lawsuit-happy, ex-banker prick whose obscure jokes and ironic references sometimes don't make any sense? He's still funny 8 or 9 times out of 10, he does cartoons most others won't have the guts to do, and I keep going back to his site to see what he has to say about the events of the day. And this book is one of the few things from the 1990s that I've picked up recently that doesn't make me want to vomit over the naive vacuity of the subject matter.
And so what if Rall's a lawsuit-happy, ex-banker prick whose obscure jokes and ironic references sometimes don't make any sense? He's still funny 8 or 9 times out of 10, he does cartoons most others won't have the guts to do, and I keep going back to his site to see what he has to say about the events of the day. And this book is one of the few things from the 1990s that I've picked up recently that doesn't make me want to vomit over the naive vacuity of the subject matter.
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