Monster mash-up spills into politics

[n2doc]

No one, it seems, is safe from a monster mash-up. This publishing sensation took off with “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” in which ultra-violent zombie mayhem was grafted onto the Jane Austen classic. The blood has flowed into many knock-offs: “Wuthering Bites,” "Little Women and Werewolves," "Emma and the Vampires.” Historical political figures are not immune. Witness the recent publication of “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” and “Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter.”

Now the gore has spilled into the monstrous swamp of American politics with “Repuglicans: They Came to Feed on the Body Politic,” a gallery of ghoulish portraits of conservative political figures, including Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney, Mike Huckabee and others.

The art work is the product of Pete Von Sholly who storyboards feature films and draws graphic novels. “I don’t have anything against conservatives or Republicans or “tea partyers” … per se,” he writes in the introduction. “But … some people will say ANYTHING in their frothing frenzy of freak out, no matter how insane.”

Steve Tatham, a comedian who describes himself as a recovering Republican, provides commentary on the public personages. He defines the term “Repuglican” thusly: “First of all, it is not synonymous with ‘Republican.’ There are 55 million Republicans in the United States. Most of them are decent, honorable people.” Tatham thinks that the Republican beliefs of limited government, state’s rights, traditional American values and a pro-business philosophy are all reasonable and worthwhile. Real Republicans and real Democrats, in his view, all want the United States to be a better place for everyone. A Repuglican, he says, “is someone who espouses conservative ideology to serve his or her own personal agenda without concern for the greater public good. A Repuglican knowingly manipulates the public, whipping them into a frenzy through not entirely true statements, in order to further his or her own career.”

The book features portraits of 61 Repuglicans. “While not all of them are vampires as far as we know,” Tatham writes, “all of them are deeply unpleasant in some manner or fashion.”


http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-bookworm/2010/05/monster_mash-up_spills_into_po.html?hpid=news-col-blog

Sorry, but I disagree on one big point- One cannot be a "decent, Honorable" person if one willingly and openly supported the monsters, not just once but many times.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Repuglicans: They Came to Feed on the Body Politic"

Too painfully true to be funny.

[GReedDiamond]

2. Pete Von Sholly is an old (since 1977) pal of mine...

...his web site is http://www.vonshollywood.com (which I, btw, built and host for him). Check out "The Flying Fuck," it's hilarious. He created the art for TFF by photographing actors in costume and photoshopping the final art (I believe the technique is called "fumetti").

Pete is fairly apolitical (or, at least WAS), as politics/politicians of either side generally annoy him more than anything else.

Besides being a highly accomplished storyboard artist (for all sorts of movies you've likely seen)/cartoonist/graphic novelist, Pete is a pretty good guitar player, too (http://www.freshwidow.com/atascadero).

[n2doc]

3. kick n/t