Troubletown Told You So: Comics that Could’ve Saved Us from this Mess
Posted in Cartoon Comics on 05. Jul, 2010
$3.77
Product Description
The latest collection of Lloyd DangleÕs satirical comic strip, Troubletown, a popular syndicated feature in alternative weekly newspapers. Troubletown Told You So, chronicles the insanity and incompetence of the Bush war years in unflinching and hysterical detail. While the major media was snoozed, Troubletown told it like it was.
Troubletown Told You So: Comics that Could've Saved Us from this Mess
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Edgy and hilarious! For long time fans like me, this latest bumper collection is an essential purchase, and for Troubletown “virgins” it will be an excellent introduction to one of the top independent weekly strips. Lloyd Dangle is consistently funny (as in laugh-out-loud), thought provoking and highly quotable. As the title suggests, a lot of these cartoons came out when most cartoonists were being extremely cautious about criticizing the Bush administration as we sent troops in to occupy Iraq. Dangle went out on a limb and in retrospect we see he was right on the money.
Rating: 5 / 5
When will Americans wake up to the fact that alternative cartoonists should be employed as Rovian and Carvillian(?) masters of political campaigns who can predict the future? Maybe after reading this book.
As the title suggests, Lloyd Dangle’s “Troubletown” cartoon has been telling us what’s what–and making us laugh–week in and week out since he began cartooning during Lord Reagan’s reign.
This plump collection has all the tidbits you need from the last few years–from the divisive confirmation hearing of Vlad the Impaler to How A Bill Becomes A Law (Pole dancing is involved).
Cleverly disguised as a cartoon collection, this History book is presented in chronological order, which may be of use to someone desiring an absurdist trip down memory lane. For myself, the years-long assault on reason has blended all the nightmarish events together, so I’m thankful to Dangle for reminding me that Frist diagnosed Terry Schiavo via TV before the Korans were flushed down the toilet.
Forget the memoirs and dour political tomes–cartoon collections tell the true story of our turbulent times.
Rating: 5 / 5
There’s simply nothing sexier than an intelligent man with a razor sharp sense of humor. Lloyd Dangle’s wit, illustrated in his political cartoon “Troubletown,” is as sharp as his x-acto knife.
Reading these comics has become an addiction for me, especially because they’re so language intensive. Each five-by-five inch square is packed with a full service laugh. One might think a book of cartoons is a quick read, but this isn’t the case with the collection, “Troubletown Told You So: Comics that Could’ve Saved Us from this Mess.” You’ll want to spend time on each page and not miss the subtle notations and political barbs within the drawings. Indeed, many are amazingly prophetic, and evoked a sad-but-true reaction from me–even while I was laughing.
Good for the coffee table or the powder room collection, you might want to keep this away from your Republican acquaintances as they surely won’t appreciate the humor. But your well-read, intellectual friends (particularly those who peruse daily newspapers and have registered as political “independents”) will marvel at Dangle’s ironic, right-on take on the mess that is American politics.
Michele Cozzens, Author of A Line Between Friends and The Things I Wish I’d Said.
Rating: 5 / 5
I read trouble town in the paper and I recently had a chance to pick this book up from the author at a comic show. Not only does this book tell the tale of our troubled nation but it does so with terrific art! Not only that but Lloyd Dangle was very nice and sold his bok to me in a very convincing manner. Love it.
Rating: 4 / 5
If you haven’t read Troubletown, you probably live in a town like mine, whose alternative weekly paper hasn’t yet done us the favor of running this awesome, well-informed and wickedly-drawn political cartoon, syndicated in papers around the country, with a huge, progressive cult following.
Lucky for us, we can easily own this collection of several years’ worth of the strip and enjoy it from our bedside table–Dangle’s hilarious skewering of mainstream media and his dopey, baffled, pawn-like characters.
If, as you read or watch the news, you experience the unsettling feeling that what you’re seeing makes no sense, nor does it accurately describe our political reality, then read Troubletown to help you understand your nagging misgivings.
Rating: 5 / 5