Books Written and/or Illustrated By Mr. Fish
NOBODY LEFT: CONVERSATIONS WITH FAMOUS RADICALS, PROGRESSIVES AND CULTURAL ICONS ABOUT THE END OF DISSENT, REVOLUTION AND LIBERALISM IN AMERICA
Available from Fantagraphics:
The renowned political cartoonist sets out to ask the burning question: Is nobody LEFT any more?
The fearsome political cartoonist Mr. Fish investigates the meaning of progressive politics in the 21st century by comparing the New Left with the Newer Left and interrogating public intellectuals, comedians, writers, and politicians who have been part of the liberal cause from the 1950s to the present day.
Nobody Left includes interviews with and essays about Norman Mailer, Christopher Hitchens, Howard Zinn, Lily Tomlin, Graham Nash, Joan Baez, Dennis Kucinich, Tariq Ali, Calvin Trillin, Mort Sahl, Robert Scheer, Paul Krassner, Jon Stewart, and others.
Mr. Fish sets out to answer the burning question: Is nobody LEFT any more?
LONG STORY SHORT: TURNING FAMOUS BOOKS INTO CARTOONS
Published by Akashic Books:
A collection of cartoons, illustrations, and paintings that condense the complicated narratives of famous books into one-page works of art.
AND THEN THE WORLD BLEW UP
From Amazon:
“What do you get when you cross a fistful of pens and an enormous stack of blank paper with somebody who resents the sweet-smelling muzzle of good manners and polite conversation, who delights in always saying the wrong thing at the right time in contempt of every expectation that the naked truth is at all obscene? This is a collection of cartoons, illustrations, personal essays, culture-war correspondence and interviews with famous intellectual and artistic outlaws, who, like the author, are just trying to defuse the apocalyptic bomb that is the miracle of our Creation. Drawn, painted, and collaged in Mr. Fish’s many virtuosic styles, And Then The World Blew Up is an eloquent take-no-prisoners response to American political life.”
WARNING! GRAPHIC CONTENT: POLITICAL CARTOONS, COMIX AND THE UNCENSORED ARTISTIC MIND
From Amazon:
Have your IDs ready and your intolerance for incendiary pictures and controversial ideas checked at the door for it’s time to step into the head of the unabashedly liberal, award-winning cartoonist and writer Dwayne Booth (aka “Mr. Fish”), where inflammatory ideas meet deep insights and something like inspiring woe, discouraging indifference and gleeful nihilism are born!
In this new book, WARNING! Graphic Content, Mr. Fish examines the past, present and future of art as commentary, deciphering its substructure and translating its unique alphabet into a wholly accessible vocabulary.
Through extensive interviews, numerous audio and video clips and nearly 400 provocative images, he demonstrates unequivocally how uncensored art and weaponized jokes from cartoonists, satirists and fine artists through history provide humanity with its most thorough and revealing self-portraits. Find out what is right and wrong with the profession of political cartooning. Discover the truth about why our visual language is so much more adept than our verbal language at explaining and understanding the existential stuff and nonsense that elates and burdens us every day.
Have you ever wondered: What’s the difference between art and craft? Why are artists so poorly paid? If Yoko Ono sat silently in the middle of a crowded auditorium in her underpants and everybody was there to see it, would she make any sense whatsoever? What is a bogey ball and does it really need to be made out of real snot to be impactful?
Mr. Fish answers all these questions and more in this book! This is work that provokes thought and debate and great peels of laughter, but is not intended for the faint of heart.
GO FISH: HOW TO WIN CONTEMPT AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE
From Akashic Books:
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, nor middle—is safe from his razor-edged satire. The volume also includes original essays from Mr. Fish.