Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People - Softcover

Fish

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ISBN 10: 161775014X ISBN 13: 9781617750144

Verlag: Akashic Books,U.S., 2011

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"Mr. Fish dissects the journalistic responsibility he faces as a cartoonist to make it make sense. It being his raw emotional output in response to a given stimuli (government, society, et al) manifesting itself via pen on paper without regard to the cleverly pointed punchline that will accompany and ultimately define it. . . The drawings are a celebration of the technical mastery and unbridled emotional truth of Dwayne Booth -- the Clark Kent to Superman's Mr. Fish."
--Huffington Post

"Fish’s work makes you want to do something--even if you’re not entirely sure what that something is--to change things for the better, and the feeling stays with you long after the book is closed."
--Verbicide Magazine

"Few individuals are as clued in to the volatility of the current political climate as iconic cartoonist Dwayne Booth (aka Mr. Fish). . . known for pointed and piquant single-panel cartoons that fearlessly and relentlessly take on the most sacred of cows in public life."
--LA Weekly

"A vibrant example of political cartooning as it is practiced at its heights… Anyone who thinks political cartooning is stale need only take a closer look at this body of work… Certifiably brilliant… The photographic elegance and immediacy with which this drawing is executed is typical of the most refined Mr. Fish style."
--Los Angeles Review of Book

This debut volume of political cartoons from the revered Mr. Fish spans politics, popular culture, the economic crisis, the Obama presidency, and much more, where nobody--right, left, or middle--is safe from his razor-edged satire. The volume also includes original essays by Mr. Fish.

Mr. Fish has been a freelance writer and cartoonist for eighteen years, publishing under both his real name (Dwayne Booth) and the penname of Mr. Fish with many of the nation's most reputable and prestigious magazines, journals, and newspapers. In addition to his weekly cartoon for Harper's and daily contributions to Truthdig.com, he has also contributed to the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, the LA Weekly, the Atlantic, the Huffington Post, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones, the Advocate, Z Magazine, the Utne Reader, Slate.com, MSNBC.com, and others.

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Dwayne Booth a.k.a. Mr. Fish has been a freelance writer and cartoonist for eighteen years, publishing under both his real name (Dwayne Booth) and the pen name of Mr. Fish with many of the nation's most reputable and prestigious magazines, journals, and newspapers. In addition to his weekly cartoon for Harper's and daily contributions to Truthdig.com, he has also contributed to the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, the LA Weekly, the Atlantic, the Huffington Post, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones, the Advocate, Z Magazine, Slate.com, and others. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and twin daughters.

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"Nobody does what Mr. Fish does, and even if they did, they wouldn’t do it as well as Mr. Fish does. Go Fish is that rarest of creatures: an essential collection of political cartoons."
--David Reese, author of Get Your War On

"Mr. Fish is one of the few brilliant souls who describes and illustrates the earth’s insanity and all of the hypocrisy and still somehow doesn’t detract from my need to masturbate constantly."
--Richard Lewis, Comedian/Actor

"Mr Fish’s penis obsession has evolved into unique visual metaphorical truths that probe the very core of politics, culture, religion—pick a target, any target—yes, he has indeed learned to think outside the cocks."
--Paul Krassner, author of Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counter-culture

"Behold the cartoons in Go Fish: there is no more savage yet brilliant wit then that possessed by Mr. Fish, who will never compromise on his deep artistic insight or the outrageous honesty of his social commentary. In a sellout culture he is that rare witness for unfettered truth."
--Robert Scheer, author of The Great American Stickup

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"Nobody does what Mr. Fish does, and even if they did, they wouldn t do it as well as Mr. Fish does. Go Fish is that rarest of creatures: an essential collection of political cartoons."
--David Reese, author of Get Your War On

"Mr. Fish is one of the few brilliant souls who describes and illustrates the earth s insanity and all of the hypocrisy and still somehow doesn t detract from my need to masturbate constantly."
--Richard Lewis, Comedian/Actor

"Mr Fish s penis obsession has evolved into unique visual metaphorical truths that probe the very core of politics, culture, religion?pick a target, any target?yes, he has indeed learned to think outside the cocks."
--Paul Krassner, author of Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counter-culture

"Behold the cartoons in Go Fish: there is no more savage yet brilliant wit then that possessed by Mr. Fish, who will never compromise on his deep artistic insight or the outrageous honesty of his social commentary. In a sellout culture he is that rare witness for unfettered truth."
--Robert Scheer, author of The Great American Stickup

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Go Fish

How to Win Contempt and Influence PeopleBy Dwayne Booth

Akashic Books

Copyright © 2011 Dwayne Booth
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-61775-014-4

Contents

Go, Fish. Go! (an introduction).............................9Acceptance..................................................19Depression..................................................57Bargaining..................................................89Anger.......................................................141Denial......................................................178Why I Am Not A Cartoonist (an appendix).....................219

Chapter One

Go, Fish. Go! (an introduction)

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wrote a book in 1969 called On Death and Dying. 1n it she described how there are five stages of grief that one might expect to experience when facing the end of life. When it became a national best seller, she expanded the concept to include anybody experiencing a catastrophic personal loss, like a drug addict hitting rock bottom or anybody who suddenly finds himself or herself incarcerated or destitute or limbless or celibate or pregnant. Then the concept was expanded farther still, to include anybody who has ever been passed over for a promotion at work or anybody whose pet has ever ran away or anybody who has ever woken up with beard burns on her uterus and the sound of the First Battalion, Twenty Third Marine Regiment singing "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" from the shower. Anybody, really, who has been blessed by a normal life and who has easy access to the K shelf in the death-and-dying section of a bookstore.

The five stages of grief, according to Kübler-Ross, are, from first to last: 1) denial, 2) anger, 3) bargaining, 4) depression, and 5) acceptance. Of course, those stages are now as endemic to how we perceive ourselves as the way we brush our teeth and elect our presidents and seek out validation in self-help books for any emotion that we find we cannot repress effortlessly.

Now, assuming that these are, in fact, legitimate emotional phases that everyone experiences when clobbered by some unforeseen disaster {and not simply just another academic concoction designed to sell books and further promote the bullshit illusion that the inner workings of a human being can be sorted and labeled and cataloged and understood as easily as the innards of a cuckoo clock}, I have to figure that these must also be the same stages that a person who attempts to preemptively clobber disaster before being clobbered by it must experience, only in reverse. Somebody who can look up and recognize impending disaster everywhere, as !leach potential disaster were a big stinky bison, part of a dispersed herd both polka-dotting the horizon and standing close enough to fog the sheen off our patent leather shoes while munching at the flowers that we planted in celebration of our eternal optimism.

Thusly, just such a person would begin by 1) accepting the fact that he lives in the world and has a certain measure of responsibility to help maintain both his own and the world's longevity and well being. Perhaps his motivations are selfish, purely predicated on something as ignoble as self-preservation. No matter, he accepts that he would rather survive in the world than succumb to its hostilities, knowing full well that there are forces and menacing realities that exist contrary to his mission, maybe even in active contempt of it. He accepts that his egotism may not keep him safe, but that it might confuse him sufficiently with just enough narcissism to propel him forward with some self-edifying sense of purpose into a lifetime unlikely to corroborate his self-regard.

Almost immediately 2) depressed by his inability to profoundly improve upon the indifferent mediocrity of human existence or to inspire a global collaboration between enlightened men and women capable of challenging the thuggish inhospitality of the world and to ultimately mellow it, he will wonder if his innate desire to help maintain both his own and the world's longevity and well being is a waste of time. Maybe it is even worse than that; specifically, a terminal form of spiritual self-destruction. Perhaps it is a death wish. Like a prisoner confined to a tiny cell, he will question the usefulness of his dreams of freedom, believing that because they are unreal beyond the confines of his sleep and have never known physical expression, they must be nightmares. How else to explain the impossibility of their realization? He is a stone preoccupied with the insane notion that weightlessness is a matter of will and not physics.

He will then find himself 3) bargaining with the dismissive universe, as if it has ears, telling it that in exchange for him not attempting to alter it that it should attempt to reward his goodwill by going out of its way to not alter him. Upon realizing that his request for mutual respect is directed at a reality vast enough to make him puny by comparison and insignificant beyond measure, his voice so microscopic as to not even rise to the level of a whisper, he will turn his back on reality—fuck it! He will then bargain with himself. He will promise not to expect any tangible reward for his perseverance in exchange for the energy to continue failing miserably without succumbing to the madness that comes with continuing to fail miserably.

He will then find himself overcome with 4) anger when he realizes that the atoms conspiring to create the indifferent, booby-trapped universe are precisely the same atoms that conspire to make him, and that asking for preferential treatment for himself is as ludicrous as his asking the moon to not only have the power to sustain his sanity through unrelenting turmoil but also to make him special in the process.

He will then rely on 5) denial to help him forget that he ever wanted to—or even tried to—save himself or the world using such harebrained argumentation, for without such improvised deniability he'd never be able to look himself in the mirror, let alone fall asleep at night and then get up in the morning feeling sufficiently refreshed to begin the process of moving through the stages all over again, his self-aggrandizement restored, the world in flames and exploding like the most promising New Year's Eve ever.

* * *

What follows is a book about how a lewd, four-eyed political satirist with a set of gnarled Staedtler pencils and a gummy eraser has been drawing his way through those stages day in and day out for the last half-decade. And byway of clarification, especially for those who may already know the lewd, four-eyed political satirist's work from seeing it posted online or published in magazines and newspapers where it is almost always presented as editorial cartooning, it is not editorial cartooning—or at least it isn't specifically, the same way that a guy who wears a cowboy hat isn't always trying to be John Wayne. Sometimes he's trying to be Jon Voight. Other times he's actually using his hat to beat back the sin. By way of explanation, I've included a personal statement—a sort of grounds-of-opposition to my involvement in or association with the editorial cartooning profession—in the Appendix, the place that, like a human appendix, is notoriously invisible to most people until shooting pains and excessive vomiting...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Akashic Books,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 161775014X
• ISBN 13: 9781617750144
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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