Laugh While You Can - Tim Kreider Jen Sorensen and Tom Hart

Laugh While You Can:
Since the election it’s not even funny anymore.

Maybe not to amateurs. But three of America's most incisive young political cartoonists have made it their job to find the funny side of the Patriot Act, the War on Terror, and the end of American democracy. In slides, animation, and discussion, Tom Hart (Hutch Owen), Tim Kreider (The Pain—When Will It End?), and Jen Sorensen (Slowpoke), retrace our steps through the absurdist landscape of the last four years and look to the even more hilarious desolation ahead. An evening of outrage, catharsis, and laughter. The cartoonists will present new work and work from their recent collections.

contact: Tom Hart
tomhart@newhatstories.com
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Tom Hart

"The tales in this collection ... mix slapstick and verbal humor to create high-level social satire."

-Publishers Weekly

Jen Sorensen

"Finally, thanks to Jen Sorensen, we have conclusive evidence that it's actually fun to think!"

- Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

Tim Kreider

"I have the cartoon 'male anorexia' on my bathroom mirror for sixteen months. I cannot shave, pimple-scan, or floss without it. It is I; He is me. Kreider rules."

-David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest

READING NEW WORK AND EXCERPTS FROM:
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Excerpts from UNMARKETABLE! and unpublished dailies.
Published 2005 by Top Shelf Productions
ISBN 1-891830-55-4

Published 2004 by Alternative Comics
For Mature Readers
112 pages, 8” x 8”, $12.95
September 2004, ISBN: 1-891867-78-4

Excerpts from THE PAIN WHEN WILL IT END?
Published 2004 by Fantagraphics Books.
ISBN : 1-56097-568-7

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