New Illustrated Political Book Out June 2004 - No George No! : The RE-PARENTING of George W. Bush Buy NOW

The creator and instigator of the political card deck phenomenon, Operation Hidden Agenda has done it again. Kathy Eder teams up with Sidewalk Bubblegum creator Clay Butler and returns with her latest creation, "No, George, No! The RE-PARENTING of George W. Bush

Attitude:The New Subversive Political Carttonists
Featuring 10 Sidewalk Bubblegum cartoons and an interview with Clay Butler.
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SIDEWALK BUBBLEGUM

Started in 1993, Clay Butler’s self-syndicated weekly political cartoon, Sidewalk Bubblegum, has been seen in hundreds of magazines, books, and zines including Z Magazine, Playboy, Funny Times, Comic Relief, Creative Loafing, Metro Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Sentinel and Finland’s largest Swedish-language daily newspaper, the HUFVUDSTADSBLADET. Here’s what other people have said:

"Clay Butler’s Sidewalk Bubblegum cartoons are not just hilarious- they are intelligent, witty, acutely perceptive social commentary, profound cultural analysis in the guise of devastating satire." -
Howard Zinn
Author of A People’s History of the United States.

"Just a note of thanks for the strips, which we all enjoyed, down to the grandchildren."
Noam Chomsky
Intellectual Superhero and author of Manufacturing Consent

"The wonderful clarity of Clay Butler’s line work is matched only by the pointed acidity of his commentary. Sidewalk Bubblegum is a treat for the mind as well as the eye." -
Tom Tommorrow
creator of This Modern World.

"Clay Butler's "Sidewalk Bubblegum" achieves the impossible: Elevating the humble gag cartoon from the insipid one-liners of yesteryear--and today's "New Yorker"--to relevant, postmodern comments on the state of society. Deceptively simple and easy on the eye, it's one of the most subversive graphic commentaries around."
Ted Rall
Creator of the nationally syndicated political comic strip Rall

"I've admired "Sidewalk Bubblegum" for years. It's more than appealing artwork, more than good storytelling, more, even, than intelligent, sympathetic politics. "Sidewalk Bubblegum" posesses some kind of underlying structural effeciency that conveys maximum thought through minimal information. In 4 panels or less, it precisely illustrates volumes of political and social commentary. The result is simple, charming, and devastating. Oh yeah, it's funny, too." Nina Paley
Creator of Nina's Adventures

"Clay Butler rushes where most cartoonists fear to tread. He takes aim at crucial- and unsettling- realities of our daily lives. If truth is the target, Butler hits plenty of bulls-eyes. You may cringe – but you’ll also laugh… and think!" -
Norman Solomon
Author of the weekly syndicated column Media Beat and author of Adventures in Media-land.

"Butler is probably the best draftsman to do political panel cartoons since Ron Cobb back in the 1960s. He possesses a special gift for drawing different species of late-20th-century types: anonymous midlevel managers, wife-beating rageballs and TV news anchormen. The Glory of Capitalism targets not just supply-side economists but also sunny-side journalists. A prime Butler gag depicts a newsman reassuring a homeless woman that at least her children don't have to worry about exposure to Internet pornography. Butler excels at drawing out the monstrosity of societally endorsed heroes. In one cartoon, we see Butler's vision of that urban legend "the self-made man" as a Frankenstein's monster built out of other people's flesh. In another, he shows how the insistence on "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" leaves us all blind and toothless, as Martin Luther King Jr. once put it. Though Butler's monsters are no slouches themselves, monstrosity grows more frightening the more human it gets." -
Richard von Bussack
Metro Newspapers.

"It’s the chewiest, the juciest… Clay Butler’s Sidewalk Bubblegum is quite simply the cat’s pajamas… it’s where I steal most of my ideas!" -
Kieth Knight
Author of the "K" Chronicles.

To witness the splendor that is the Sidewalk Bubblegum archive, click here. For information about Clay’s self-published collections of Sidewalk
Bubblegum cartoons, click here.

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