Synopses & Reviews
"Bors embodies the highest virtues of political cartoonists: fearless, provocative satire and cutting, acerbic insights. He's also unfailingly funny." —Glenn Greenwald, columnist for
The Guardian
"Life Begins at Incorporation is equal parts maddening and hilarious. Matt Bors reminds us that in an unjust world, laughter is an absolute necessity. The only disappointment in this book is that despite my wishes to the contrary, 'The Avenging Uterus' is not in fact real." —Jessica Valenti, founder of Feministing.com & author of The Purity Myth
"Able to eviscerate a target with a single panel. You never want to end up on the wrong side of his pen and ink!" —Markos Moulitsas, Daily Kos
"Bors has the right stuff and then some." —Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great
Are corporations people? Is birth control a sin? Can the president kill you with a drone strike? In this essential collection, Pulitzer Prize Finalist Matt Bors mixes the best political cartoons from his prolific body of work with 15 essays to answer the most perplexing questions of our time. Never has reading about economics and mass shootings been this enjoyable! Distributed by Top Shelf. — a 240-pages full-color softcover strip collection with French flaps, 8" x 9".
Synopsis
Are corporations people? Is birth control a sin? Can the president kill you with a drone strike? In this essential collection, Pulitzer Prize Finalist Matt Bors mixes the best political cartoons from his prolific body of work with 15 essays to answer the most perplexing questions of our time.
From wandering the halls of a church-run haunted house in Ohio to meeting in Afghanistan with victims of America's War on Terror to speculating on the secret lives of homophobes, Bors ridicules the people and problems plaguing this fair nation. Never has reading about economics and mass shootings been this enjoyable
About the Author
Matt Bors is a nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist and editor based in Portland, Oregon. He was a 2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for his comics, which appear regularly in
The Sacramento Bee, Portland Mercury, Pittsburgh City Paper, and on Alternet and Daily Kos.
Bors worked as the comic journalism editor for Cartoon Movement and drew the graphic novel War Is Boring, a collaboration with journalist David Axe that was published in 2010 by New American Library.
His comics and writing have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Salon, The Nation, Village Voice, and The Oregonian. In 2012, Bors was the recipient of the Herblock Prize and the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for his editorial cartooning.