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In case you are not familiar with "Get Your War On," this is stark,Mamet-like, wry cartooning at its best, a cult classic.

This is an all new autumn 2008 edition (in large format) that "combines strips from the first two publications with sixty-five percent new material created in the last three years."

Here's a video preview of the book.

Here's a "Get Your War On" take on Sarah Palin's paleolithic stance on rape.

"A glorious excoriation of our post-9/11 loony bin"

�New York Times

"Riotous and principled."

�Washington Post

"[T]he Thomas Nast of the internet."

�Comedy Central

"[H]ilariously deadpan fatalism . . . a surprisingly articulate expression of our anxieties."

�Newsweek

"Rees [is] a phenomenal cult hero."

�Variety

"Get Your War On" is all the more incredible because it is basically in the style of mundane red clip art with captions that are weighted with irony, anger, and humor constrained by the spatial limits of your stereotypical corporate office.

"Get Your War On" is bitterly sardonic, caustic, and all the more full of impact because its captions loaded with wit, sacrasam and bitterness hang over denizens of the corporate world who spend most of their time on the phone or in front of a computer (or both).

The conversations between characters in the comic strips are filled with profanities, cynicism and long captivating captions.

Here's one example we love: "If we stopped fighting the War on Terrorism, it would free up more time for all of us to fight the really important war: The Vietnam War." That's kind of the entire McCain campaign in a nutshell: refighting the Vietnam War.

From the publisher;

David Rees's infamous cartoon book �which went on to be serialized in Rolling Stone, adapted for the stage, and animated�isn't just a caustic analysis of American foreign policy. It's also an emotional kaleidoscope of American life and absurdity,from October, 2001, when American bombs first fell in the poverty-stricken, terrorist safe haven of Afghanistan, to 2008, when bombs continue to fall in the poverty-stricken, terrorist safe haven of Afghanistan. (There's some stuff about Iraq in the middle, too.)

This is the final, definitive collection of Rees's comic. It is also the first definitive account of the War on Terror. . .

And it's f**king hilarious.



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