Bully!: Master of the Global Merry-go-round by Sue Coe (30-Jun-2004) Paperback

by Sue Coe

Sue Coe sets her sights on our president, casting him as Bully, the ringleader of a nightmarish carnival. Judith Brody's lyrical prose set the stage for Coe's gorgeously rendered paintings, and both are juxtaposed against choice quotations from the architects of the Bush agenda. With a timely release for what promises to be a polarized 2004 election year, Bully! is one of the most politically charged, unabashedly left-leaning books of the season.

Paperback

First published June 1, 2004

About the author

Sue Coe grew up next to a slaughterhouse in Liverpool. She studied at the Royal College of Art in London and left for New York in 1972. Early in her career, she was featured in almost every issue of Art Spiegelman’s groundbreaking magazine Raw, and has since contributed illustrations to the New York Times, the New Yorker, The Nation, Entertainment Weekly, Time, Details, The Village Voice, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Esquire and Mother Jones, among other publications. Her previous books include Dead Meat (winner of the 1991 Genesis Award) and Cruel. Among her many awards are the Dickinson College Arts Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art, and a National Academy of Arts Award (2009).

Reviews

[Jon Nakapalau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sue Coe is always interesting...I don't agree with all her points of view, but I do appreciate her honesty. Bully! looks at the symbiotic relationship between big business and politics; how that relationship has become (overwhelmingly) to the detriment of society. Some very deeply shocking revelations are reveled in this book.