After September 11, the mood in the United States was somber and serious as the majority of Americans were led into supporting two failed wars by Bush II. Speaking out was unpatriotic, so those of us who were none too pleased found quiet solace and smiles in David Rees’ Get Your War On. The ironic cartoons gave us something to snicker about with co-workers — you know, the anti-American traitor types with bleeding hearts (as opposed to ones that pump oil) — around the water cooler.

In the years following, Get Your War On managed to spread around the world wide interweb faster than the swine flu, and it didn’t take long for a compilation of seven years of the hilariously un-PC drawings to be released by Brooklyn-based publisher Soft Skull Press, and for Rude Mechanicals to tour the country acting out the snarkified, curse-laden dialogue Rees was famous for. Read More »