Présentation de l'éditeur
JEFF DANZIGER IS an independent political cartoonist whose work appears in hundreds of newspapers around the world via the
New York Times Syndicate. He draws from six to ten cartoons a week on a wide variety of subjects, from international folly to Hollywood hubris. An equal opportunity satirist, he is politically to the left of Genghis Kahn — everyone and everything is fair game. His dark drawings, pull-no-punches humor, and “Danziger” signature line are instantly recognizable to any regular reader of newspaper opinion pages. As with any great political humorist, Danziger’s funniest creations lampoon the most deadly serious subjects. Created in the heat of the moment and collected here for the first time, Danziger’s cartoons of George W. Bush’s ascent to the White House and first term in office amount to a highly entertaining excursion through the national and international political landscape of the past four years.
Wreckage Begins with “W” showcases a singular wit and an artist of uncanny prescience.
Revue de presse
“Jeff Danziger is everything a great political cartoonist should be in this over-reverential age: savage, merciless, accurate, ribald, and blessed with a lovely eye and hand. Again and again in recent years, Danziger has drawn what so few in the American press have had the guts to write.”— John le Carré
“Jeff Danziger’s muscular line cracks like a whip, flailing into shreds the hypocrisies that make up the body politic. Drawing like a dream, he renders these smart, witty (often hilarious), comic nightmares. His rage is our solace.”— Jules Feiffer
“Jeff Danziger’s cartoons are invariably great because his ability to draw, his ideas, and the composition, drama, and import of his work are great.”— Arnold Roth
“People laughed when Jeff Danziger said he wanted to be an internationally syndicated editorial cartoonist. They’re not laughing now.” — Martyn Turner
The Irish Times
Biographie de l'auteur
A native New Yorker, Jeff Danziger has been cartooning for nearly twenty-five years, starting at the
Rutland (Vermont)
Herald in 1975, to which he still contributes. He has worked at the
New York Daily News (1982-86) and the
Christian Science Monitor (1986-96), where he was twice a Pulitzer finalist. He has traveled widely and won an Overseas Press Award in 1993. This year he was awarded the Population Institute’s Press Award for Cartoons on the subject of global population growth.
Danziger served involuntarily in the U.S. Army from 1967-71 and was awarded the Bronze Star and Air Medal for his service as an intelligence officer and linguist in Vietnam in 1970. He has published one novel about the war,
Rising Like the Tucson (Doubleday 1991). He has also published ten books of cartoons. In addition to regular political cartoons, his illustrations have appeared in the
New Yorker, the
Atlantic Monthly, the
Times of London, and the
American Prospect.
He lives in Manhattan in what has so far (sixteen years) been a committed relationship with a nonsmoking female heterosexual. Plus two cats.
FRANK MILLER is one of today’s leading comic book and graphic novel authors. His creations include the
Dark Knight series of Batman stories, and the
Daredevil series of books.
