Search And Destroy: Cartoons by Ted Rall

by Ted Rall

Witty, acerbic, razor Ted Rall has been called a spokesperson for his generation. But the political cartoonist doesn't leave anyone untouched - even his own Generation X - as he focuses his caustic imagination on everything from pop culture to the environment, from underemployment to political trends. Search and Destroy is Rall's first cartoon collection in five years. His previous books, Waking Up In America and All The Rules Have Changed were best-sellers, especially among young people looking for someone to voice their frustrations, their hopes, their angst. Likewise, his groundbreaking book of essays and cartoons, Revenge Of The Latchkey Kids, spoke loudly across generations. Ted Rall brings an insightful understanding into the forces that are shaping our society today.

Genres: Humor, Satire, Politics

160 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2001

About the author

Ted 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.

Reviews

[Dominick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well, this is interesting material. Rall has a vicious sensibility, which often serves him in good stead as he tackles topics such as corporate greed, political hypocrisy, and so on. His cartoons are often funny. He also has a good sense of design--he uses an array of devices, such as different type faces, layouts, and so on, to vary the basic grid and look of his strips. However, his art is often ... well, too crude to be effective. He has a deliberately primitive, basic style that fits the tone of his humour well, but it fails him in many instances when, for instance, it's important that you can tell that a certain figure is, say, Bill Clinton, or someone else equally real and recognizeable. That rather blunts the effectiveness of more than one joke....

[B · Rating 3 out of 5]

741.5973 Cynical but funny cartoons.

[Ty Keith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ted Rall is always good for a chuckle, a laugh and some deep thinking.