With Washington in the thrall of a cabal of idiots and crooks, Paul Ryan is an armada of judgments, jabs, and jokes in the one vehicle politicians fear most: a parody magazine.
More than 192 pages about Paul Ryan, this is also a parody about magazines. We're satirizing every glossy you find in your mailbox, at your doctor's office, at CVS: Muscle mags. Tabloids. Sports Illustrated. In-flight magazines and alumni magazines and High Times, Vanity Fair, Boys' Life, TV Guide, Architectural Digest, The New Yorker.
The initial funding for the print run came from a successful campaign on Kickstarter.
I was excited about this project because we need a laugh from politics now. Also, it was going to be style parodies of various magazines. But, I forgot something - humor is very subjective. And so I often found myself wondering when I was going to finally finish this blasted thing. Just as with my biggest criticism of SNL for the past decade or so - the smaller articles tended to work best. The longer ones just stretched what was usually a pretty thin joke even thinner.
This is the first creative thing I've kickstarted where I wish I'd just saved my money. Oh well.