We Learn Nothing (Free Press, 2012) |
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Twilight of the Assholes (Fantagraphics, 2011)Volume II of the Chronicle of the Era of Darkness (Political cartoons, 2005-2009). Available at Fantagraphics, Abebooks, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, or Indiebound. |
Why Do They
Kill Me? (Fantagraphics, 2005)
Available at Fantagraphics, Abebooks, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indiebound |
"His cartoons are merciless, sparing no one--not even their own horrified, disoriented author. His drawings are inspired, his humor devastating, and his truthfulness almost unbearable. In short, he is to the satirical cartoon what Stanley Kubrick was to cinematic satire--e.g., Dr. Strangelove."
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The Pain - When Will It End? (Fantagraphics, 2004)Quite simply the funniest fucking book of cartoons ever published. Buy at Abebooks, Amazon, Barnes & Noble
"I have had the cartoon ''Male Anorexia' on my bathroom mirror for seven months. I cannot floss, shave, or pimple-scan without it. I am it; he is me. Kreider rules, and also has a simply mammoth penis--you'd (almost) have to see it to believe it."
"Tim Kreider is the unsung hero of contemporary comics. He is funny and crazy and brave enough to proclaim as truths the things the rest of us are too chickenshit to say out loud."
"Kreider obsessively dwells upon crucifixion in various scenarios, somewhat suspiciously, as it points to the heart of his work, which seems to be about humanity unable to love, unable to stop destroying each other, though there is a need for love, and there is a certain poetry to human destruction."
"He has a talent for connecting the tiny exasperations of life to the big fucking problems. There are many moments in the book that trigger a feeling of recognition, followed closely by a feeling of hollowness and shame, as in, 'Hey, that's something that might happen to me! Oh...Crap. That's not too good.'"
"Kreider's style is in the great scratchy, sensationalized and sick tradition of master satirists Gerald Scarfe and Ralph Steadman. Coarse, crude, confrontational and cool."
"Where other cartoonists 'poke fun at our foibles,' Kreider punctures them with a fisherman's gaffe, hoisting them aloft, gore-streaked and still warm and beating."
"He takes evil and shows it as pathetic."
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