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April 7, 2002

BOOK REPORT: Canadians Launch Wartoons

Canadian War Toons is a 46-page, magazine-format anthologythat reprints over 100 cartoons,some in color, by 45 cartoonistsreacting to the events of September11. It was edited by Ottawa Suncartoonist Sue Dewer and publishedby Sun Media. Price is $3.99 U.S.($5.99 Canadian), with all proceedsgoing to the Canadian Red CrossSeptember 11 fund.To order online, got to http://shopx.canoe.ca/shops/.

Attitude: The New SubversivePolitical Cartoonists will be publishedin May by NBM Publishingof New York. The book features 21artists whose work epitomizes alternative-weekly political cartooning.

The 128-page compilation includeswork by editor Ted Rall andfellow AAEC members Lala Alcaraz,Scott Bateman, Joe Sharpnack andMatt Wuerker. Other cartoonistsshowcased are Tom Tomorrow, PeterKuper, Ruben Bolling, LloydDangle, Andy Singer, DonAsmussen, Clay Butler, JenSorensen, Tim Eagan, Derf, EricBezdek, William L. Brown, WardSutton, Stephanie McMillan, MickeySiporin and Jim Siergey. In addition,Rall interviewed all the artistsand asked them to submit ephemerafrom their personal lives."Perhaps because they defyeasy labeling, they're creating themost interesting work in cartooningtoday, Rall writes, "and it's anhonor to help present this newgenre to the public."

The book can now be orderedonline from amazon.com.

AAEC member Vaughn R.Larson, editorial cartoonist at TheReview in Plymouth, Wisconsin, hadpublished his first book. In theWurst Way: A Collection of (Mostly)Sheboygan County and WisconsinCartoons came out in Decemberand is described by the artist as "amodest effort to get my feet wet."

Price for the 100-page collection is$10. For more information, contactLarson at sgtlarson@yahoo.com

The 30th anniversary edition ofBest Editorial Cartoons of the Year,edited by retired Birmingham Newscartoonist Charles Brooks, is nowout and on its way to contributors.The 208-page paperback contains400 cartoons. Copies are availablefrom Pelican Publishing of Grenta,Louisiana, for $14.95 each.

Pelican has also re-released twoearlier BECY collections in paperback:the 1979 edition and the1983 edition. They're available for$18.95 each. To order, call 800-843-1724.