Bully

by Sue Coe

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.

100 pages, Hardcover

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.