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About To Afghanistan And Back
Product Description The World’s first "Instant Graphic Novel"! When U.S. bombs started raining on the Taliban, Rall didn't just watch it on TV--he jumped on a plane straight to the war zone to get the real story for himself. But the only cartoonist to go to Afghanistan got more than he bargained for, way more than his previous gut-wrenching trip deep up the legendary Silk Road. Within days of arriving, armed men were hunting down journalists to murder and rob them. Waving funnies didn’t help. From the gruesome spectacle of a Taliban prisoner blowing himself up with grenades to the hilarious image of mujahideen lining up for shaves and DVD porn a day after joining the Northern Alliance, you can count on Rall for a decidedly different take on this gritty war. TO AFGHANISTAN AND BACK, features as its centerpiece a 50-page graphic novel travelogue of his experience as a cartoonist and war correspondent. It also includes Rall's articles, cartoons and photos as filed from the front for the Village Voice and syndicated throughout America. Review "A supremely gifted writer and cartoonist. Insightful taut reportage." From the Author Producing this book was a unique experience. I wrote and drew it beginning just days after my return from Afghanistan, so my impressions and memories of the trip were still amazingly fresh. I've tried to incorporate that sense of immediacy with a view to the long term, so that someone who wants to know (a) what Afghanistan is like and (b) what the American bombing campaign was really like might come away with a fairly accurate impression. Much of the reporting from the war was spun and edited beyond recognition. This is my attempt to set the record--the part of I saw, anyway--straight. About the Author Twice winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Ted Rall is a syndicated editorial cartoonist and columnist for Universal Press Syndicate. His previous books include Revenge of the Latchkey Kids and 2024.
