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Military History Press
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BW&A
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SILK ROAD TO RUIN: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?

Written & drawn by Ted Rall. Edited & designed by JP Trostle. Cover by Henry H. Owings. Ted Rall's magnum opus, this 304-page blend of comics journalism, travelogue and analysis of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan picks up where "To Afghanistan and Back" left off. Four years in the making, "Silk Road to Ruin" is the ultimate primer to the world's most remote--and dangerous--region.

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ATTITUDE3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists

Edited by Ted Rall and designed by JP Trostle. Art & interviews with 21 more brilliant alternative cartoonists, this time with an emphasis on webcomics, including animator Mark Fiore, M.e. Cohen ("Humorlink"), August Pollak, Dorthy Gambrell ("Cat and Girl"), Richard Stevens ("Diesel Sweeties"), Eric Millikin ("Fetus-X") and more.

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WHAT WOULD BILL HICKS SAY?

Edited by Ben Mack and Kristine Pulkkinen. Contributors include cartoonists Jeff Danziger and J.P. Trostle; writers Neal Pollack; and Thom Yorke of Radiohead.

Just emerging from underground cult status when he died in 1994, Hicks redefined the boundaries of comedy in the 1980s. His biting social satire about everything from the first President Bush to rock stars who shill for diet Coke made audiences roar and censors cringe. Hicks believed that while ideas evolve, principles remain constant, and that the venues for expressing them change over time. Hicks said he was planting seeds. By providing a forum for those touched by Hicks's ideas to speak out on his behalf, this book waters those seeds.

What would Bill Hicks say about the second George Bush, the second war in Iraq, American Idol, or erectile dysfunction? In 250 words (or one picture), writers, comedians, musicians, and cartoonists fulminate about the current political and cultural scene in Hicksian rants.

ATTACK OF THE POLITICAL CARTOONISTS: Insights and Assaults from Today's Editorial Cartoonists

Edited by J.P. Trostle, with a Foreword by Senator Russ Feingold. Profiles of 150 members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, whose work has appeared in every major newspaper in North America and beyond. The cartoonists collected here have won hundreds of journalism awards, including over a dozen Pulitzer Prizes.

GENERALISSIMO EL BUSHO: Essays and Cartoons on the Bush Years By Ted Rall

Edited & designed by JP Trostle. Cover by Henry H. Owings. Ted Rall compiles his most scathing cartoons and brutally honest columns about the current resident of the White House. The New York Times said 'there is no better use of $19.95 [than buying this book.]'

ATTITUDE2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists

Edited by Ted Rall, designed by JP Trostle. The 2nd of three Attitude books I did with Ted Rall, this one also features art and interviews with 21 syndicated alternative cartoonists including Keith Knight ("The K Chronicles"), Emily S. Flake ("Lulu Eightball"), Alison Bechtel ("Dykes to Watch Out For"), Shannon Wheeler ("Too Much Coffee Man"), Mikhaela B. Reid, Aaron McGruder ("Boondocks"), David Rees ("Get Your War On"), Steven Notley ("Bob the Angry Flower") and more.

ATTITUDE: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists

Edited by Ted Rall, designed by JP Trostle. The original Attitude book, with art and interviews with 21 syndicated alternative cartoonists including Don Asmussen, Tom Tomorrow ("This Modern World"), Jen Sorensen, Scott Bateman, Lalo Alcaraz ("La Cucaracha"), Ruben Bolling ("Tom the Dancing Bug"), Matt Wuerker, Ward Sutton ("Schlock 'n' Roll"), and the late great Mickey Siporin.

TO AFGHANISTAN AND BACK: A Graphic Travelogue by Ted Rall

Edited & designed by JP Trostle. Cover by Ted & Judy Rall, with an introduction by Bill Maher. [Ok, this is the cover to the French language edition, but I like it so much more than the original cover.]

This highly personal book records Rall's experiences during a trip to Afghanistan during the U.S. bombing in 2001. Publisher's Weekly says: "A longtime visitor to and commentator on Central Asia, Rall knows his way around war-torn nations. He journeys by convoy with about 45 journalists ... [and]must deal with finding a warm place to sleep, keeping his phone charged ($40 a day) and the constant worry of being killed by Afghani soldiers or U.S. bombs. ... [H]is book joins Joe Sacco's accounts of life in Palestine and Bosnia as a tremendous contribution to comics war journalism."