You Back The Attack!: Remixed War Propaganda

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U.S. Airborne Ranger-turned-dissident comic book artist, Micah Wright here offers a stunning, hilarious and politically incendiary full-colour poster book that reworks classic American World War I and II propaganda into commentaries on war, peace and patriotism for the post-September 11 era. Here forty posters of yesteryear such as Uncle Sam's I Want You,' and 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' are reworked with messages of peace and protest against the Bush White House, the War on Terror, the 2000 Presidential Election, and much more. With 40 pages of vibrant full-colour art.'

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Reworking American propaganda posters from WWI and WWII, Wright reveals his satiric take on current events: one poster reads, 'Millions of troops are on the move All To Protect Your Oil Supply! Is your SUV really worth their lives' In another, a girl sitting in her father's lap asks, "Daddy, why don't YOU or any of your friends from ENRON have to go to war" And many are messages from the Orwellian-sounding 'Ministry of Homeland Security': The Statue of Liberty points to the onlooker and commands, 'You! Stop Asking Questions! You're Either With U.S. or You're With The TERRORISTS!' The antiwar contingent will read these and weep, rather than laugh.Publishers Weekly

Micah Ian Wright's book of "remixed" war posters, You Back the Attack! We'll Bomb Who We Want! manages to be both comic and chilling as it skewers just about every military-minded institution of the Bush administration.AlterNet

Author Bio

Micah Wright, a former Airborne Ranger in the U.S. Army and an award-winning children's animation writer, currently writes StormWatch: Team Achilles, a blood-and-guts vision of human special forces soldiers who do battle with out-of-control superheroes and the sinister Military-Corporate Complex that creates these supersoldiers gone mad. Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most prolific and respected authors of the 20th century. His novels include Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle. Howard Zinn, a famed historian and activist, is the author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed A People's History of the United States and ten other books including the Zinn Reader (also available from Turnaround). He received the Eugene V. Debs and Lannan Foundation awards for his writing and political activism.