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R. Sikoryak: The unquotable Trump (2017)

48 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2017

ISBN:
978-1-77046-304-2
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OCLC Number:
973798026

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"R. Sikoryak is famous for taking classic comics and mashing them with famous literature as he did in Masterpiece Comics or even using comics to visualize the iTunes Terms and Conditions contract. Now in these uncertain times, cartoonist R. Sikoryak draws upon the power of comics and satire to frame President Trump and his controversial declarations as the words and actions of the most notable villains and antagonists in comic book history. Reimagining the most famous comic covers, Sikoryak transforms Wonder Woman into Nasty Woman; Tubby Tompkins into Trump; Black Panther into the Black Voter; the Fantastic Four into the Hombres Fantasticos and Trump into Magneto fighting the Ex-Men. In perfect Trumpian fashion, The Unquotable Trump will be a 48-page treasury annual-needlessly oversized and garishly colored; a throw-back to the past when both Comics and America were Great. This will be the hugest comic, truly a great comic. You won't …

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reviewed The unquotable Trump by R. Sikoryak (Big league D+Q special edition -- 1)

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And today we are looking at another one of my library's recent acquisition, namely The Unquotable Trump by Robert Sikoryak published by Drawn and Quarterly. While I have not actually read of his other works, they are apparently the person behind Masterpiece Comics - one of those books I often see but not actually read yet.

Picking this book up from the library I actually had no idea what to expect. To say that I was pleasantly surprised would be a little bit of an understatement, because while this book can simply be described as a collection of altered covers there is more to it then that.

Reading through the i09 interview with Robert Sikoryak he apparently did think pretty hard about putting this series of images together. Not only putting the quotes in chronological order but also trying to put them into a narrative.

Personally, I also felt like …

Subjects

  • Caricatures and cartoons
  • Quotations
  • Humor
  • Comic books, strips