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Twilight of the Assholes (Fantagraphics, February 2011)

Volume II of the Chronicle of the Era of Darkness (2005-2009).

"What makes Kreider really interesting as a satirist is that he's the polar opposite of most of our pundits these days... once you go through all of his work you can easily see that his views on politics are drawn not from some corporate team-building instinct but from a hatred of liars and cowards of any kind, which makes him an iconoclast in the purest sense of the word."

-from Matt Taibbi's introduction

"Sometimes vulgar and crude but often insightful, always passionate, Kreider's essays and illustrations offer a voice for a nation seemingly without hope."

-Publisher's Weekly

"Kreider employed a vicious, scorched-earth set of tactics that matched the passionate intensity of the right, only embued with a wicked and outrageous sense of humor to go with a keen sense of observation. Whether or not one agreed with all of Kreider's observations about American culture... the sheer relentlessness of [his] attacks combined with the elegance and intensity of his line carried a certain punishing quality."

-Rob Clough, The Comics Journal

"Excoriating, withering humour and viciously necessary satire tellingly rendered and savage yet personable and winningly intimate reportage make this one of the best cartoon coshes ever applied to the politics of this century."

-Win Wiacek, "Now Read This"

Why Do They Kill Me? (Fantagraphics, May 2005)
Volume I of the Chronicle of the Era of Darkness (2000-2004).

"His cartoons are merciless, sparing no one--not even their own horrified, disoriented author, who points out the current absurdities and stupidities without a hint of moral self-congratulation (on the contrary). His drawings are inspired, his humor devastating, and his truthfulness almost unbearable. In short, he is to the satirical cartoon what Stanley Kubrick was to cinematic satire--e.g., Dr. Strangelove. No matter what goes down, no matter what comes next, however bad the news (that is or isn't being reported), you owe it to yourself to check out this man's work, so you can laugh until it hurts, and then stops hurting."

-Mark Crispin Miller
author of Boxed In and The Bush Dyslexicon

"A fearless collection of dark, irreverent, and seriously funny political cartoons that acts a welcome salve for anyone who didn't vote for the man currently inhabiting the White House."

-Myla Goldberg,
author of Bee Season and Wickett's Remedy

"Less a collection of cartoons, more a searingly angry document of our times... Drawn with the same grotesque savagery as Ralph Steadman, [these cartoons] pull no punches."

-The Ecologist

"Packed with over 110 pages of political cartoons and comics, and clocking in at just under 200 pages of social, political, and religious commentary, Why Do They Kill Me? still isn't anything close to a distillation of the enormous talents of cartoonist Tim Kreider... [His] first book revealed a comentator and critic who ws both brilliant and crazy, but crazy in the way we describe people who are audacious enough to lampoon and criticize our cowardly and dishonest social and political figures and governmental leaders... If you like Bush/Cheney, you may not like this book, but you would if you had a sense of humor."

-Leroy Douresseaux
The Comic Book Bin

"Simply put, he is the most acerbic, nastiest, and (most importantly) funniest political cartoonist alive. His attacks on the Bush administration are surgical strikes, and his venom for the culture that supports it is even more vicious. This is scorched-earth humor at its best, jokes that make the reader laugh out loud while flinching."

-Rob Clough
Sequart.com

The Pain - When Will It End? (Fantagraphics, May 2004)

Tim Kreider's now-legendary first book, collecting cartoons drawn 1994-2004.

"I have had the cartoon ''Male Anorexia' on my bathroom mirror for seven months. I cannot floss, shave, or pimple-scan without it. I am it; he is me. Kreider rules, and also has a simply mammoth penis--you'd (almost) have to see it to believe it."

-David Foster Wallace
author of Infinite Jest and Oblivion

"Tim Kreider is the unsung hero of contemporary comics. He is funny and crazy and brave enough to proclaim as truths the things the rest of us are too chickenshit to say out loud."

-Myla Goldberg,
author of Bee Season and Wickett's Remedy

"Kreider obsessively dwells upon crucifixion in various scenarios, somewhat suspiciously, as it points to the heart of his work, which seems to be about humanity unable to love, unable to stop destroying each other, though there is a need for love, and there is a certain poetry to human destruction."

-Chris Estey
Bandoppler

"He has a talent for connecting the tiny exasperations of life to the big fucking problems. There are many moments in the book that trigger a feeling of recognition, followed closely by a feeling of hollowness and shame, as in, 'Hey, that's something that might happen to me! Oh...Crap. That's not too good.'"

- Ellen Johnston
"It Never Ends," The Sex Herald

"Kreider's style is in the great scratchy, sensationalized and sick tradition of master satirists Gerald Scarfe and Ralph Steadman. Coarse, crude, confrontational and cool. "

- Christopher Arnott
"Kreider's Crass Courage," The New Haven Advocate

"He takes evil and shows it as pathetic..."

-L.J. Douresseau
The Comic Book Bin

"Where other cartoonists 'poke fun at our foibles,' Kreider punctures them with a fisherman's gaffe, hoisting them aloft, gore-streaked and still warm and beating."

-Chris Allen
The Comic Book Galaxy

Attitude 2: The New Subversive Social Commentary Cartoonists (March 2004)

Anthology edited by Ted Rall. Features cartoons and an interview with Tim Kreider.

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