Deconstructing Comics #887: ‘The Dissidents’ — A Brutally Relevant Book

by Erik Amaya

Derf Backderf’s latest book is The Dissidents, focusing on a group of political cartoonists in the late 1910s who did powerful political cartoons in a hair-raisingly horrible period in American history: World War I, anti-war protest made illegal, massacres of American Blacks (encouraged by the president, no less), torture in American prisons and more. Tim and Kumar discuss.