Bully

Sue Coe is widely regarded as one of the best and most scathing political artists of her time, a Kathe Kollwitz of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Her connection to comics began over 20 years ago when she was featured in almost every issue of Art Spiegelman's groundbreaking anthology RAW (where Maus was first serialized). She went on to publish the controversial books How To Commit Suicide In South Africa and X (the biography of Malcolm X), and has had numerous one-woman exhibitions across North America in the decade since then. With BULLY Coe returns to the print world with a vengeance, as she sets her sights on the years of George W. Bush, from the Florida ballots and 9/11 to Iraq and beyond. Juxtaposed with Coe's harsh imagery are quotations from the architects of the Bush agenda, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, et al, creating a graphic, dramatic "cause" and "effect." With a timely release for what promises to be a polarized 2004 election year, BULLY will provide the perfect antidote to Ann Coulter and her ilk, as one of the most politically-charged, unabashedly left-leaning books of the season this side of Michael Moore.