Cartoonist Jen Sorensen, recently honored by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies for the second consecutive year for her self-syndicated ‘Slowpoke’ comic strip, has announced that Alternative Comics will release her latest strip collection
Slowpoke: America Gone Bonkers in September 2004. Jen Sorensen’s ‘Slowpoke’, which runs in numerous alternative newspapers around the country, won second place for “Best Cartoon” at the 9th annual Alternative Newsweekly Awards held June 25 at the AAN Convention in San Antonio.
Slowpoke: America Gone Bonkers is Xeric Grant-winning cartoonist Jen Sorensen’s second collection of her brilliant weekly cartoon 'Slowpoke'. Through her characters Little Gus, Mr. Perkins, and the terminally horny Drooly Julie, Sorensen slams the Bush regime, vapid trends, and corporate gluttony with her trademark brand of absurdist humor.
The cartoonist said of her new collection, “America has always been a little bit bonkers, but in the past few years, we’ve entered new, uncharted realms of bonkerdom. If Americans would take a moment to think outside the flag-covered box and see themselves as the rest of the world now does, they’d be horrified.”
The cartoons in this timely comic treasury lampoon the Bush years, but they also take on the chaos of our cornball culture. From This Week in Geek Chic to the strange-but-true executive retreat where bosses learn to treat their employees like horses, this book is a bulging cornucopia of perversion and subversion, and big laffs to boot.
Slowpoke
Alternative Comics
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