This new collection of cartoons and four short-stories zeroes in on American life with laugh-out-loud whimsy and sharpness, proving once again that P. S. Mueller is a premier chronicler of our strange times.
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"[Mueller is a] delightfully demented soul." —Washington Post
"Laughing is all well and good, but what's it called when you laugh, while being surprised, sad, angry and oddly comforted?" —Ben Karlin, producer, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
"P.S. Mueller is the cartoonist America trusts." —Carol Kolb, editor, The Onion
"A brilliant critic of American mass culture." —Utne Reader
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P. S. Mueller has created cartoons that have appeared in such publications as Bark, The New Yorker, Reader's Digest, and Newsweek. He is also the voice of Onion Radio News anchor/savant Doyle Redland, as well as its cowriter and coproducer. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
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A Breath of Fresh Humor,
By Eyeball Kid (Willamette Valley, Oregon) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Your Belief System Is Shot (Paperback)
There's woman and man in front of a television. On the screen is a bearded fellow in a robe who's doing a dance of sorts. In the background of the television scene is a smoking crater. The man who is watching the scene on television remarks to the woman, "Oops! We bombed `em back to the Jazz Age!
An apprehensive Mr. Peanut stands before St. Peter at the gate of Heaven. St. Peter looks up from his registration book and asks Mr. Peanut, "Were you smooth or chunky?" These cartoons typify P.S. Mueller's work: a mixing of culture, politics and word play that give his cartoons the qualities that any cartoonist would strive to possess. They generate the thoughtfulness to cause a smile or the zaniness to provoke an outburst of laughter, while at the same time hinting at a way of thinking and communicating that places substance over style, authenticity over facetiousness. Mueller isn't strident or overbearing in his mission. He sets the stage mostly with single frame drawings, adds a simple phrase, and lets the reader take the cartoon into a comfort zone of choice-- most often into the humor zone. Mueller's new book, Your Belief System is Shot: Cartoons and Stuff, is his fourth. In this work of over 130 pages, he also includes a few offbeat and amusing vignettes written with the efficiency and depth of an experienced poet. I recommend this book for anyone who has a coffee table at home, an uncluttered spot on the office desk at work, or an empty space on the Christmas gift list. It's a breath of fresh humor at a very affordable price.
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