In this brief and humorous satire, a man trapped in the bosom of the most venal media clique in London is losing his heart to a magazine columnist, about to lose his job at a magazine, losing his mind to cocaine, and losing his soul to a newspaper columnist, the kingpin of media scandal.
In this brief and humorous satire, a man trapped in the bosom of the most venal media clique in London is losing his heart to a magazine columnist, ab...
Celebrated cartoonist and writer Martin Rowson argues in this book that, rationally, the whole enterprise of religion is a waste of time and money. Then again, he asserts, so is the practice of keeping pets - and the two are not so different.
Celebrated cartoonist and writer Martin Rowson argues in this book that, rationally, the whole enterprise of religion is a waste of time and money. Th...
A few months after two of his parents had died, the author had a dream about the house he grew up in which was crammed with tons and tons of stuff, both physical and emotional. This memoir delves into that 'stuff'; weaving together dreams, family anecdotes
A few months after two of his parents had died, the author had a dream about the house he grew up in which was crammed with tons and tons of stuff, bo...
Tolerated in Britain for over 300 years and ubiquitous throughout the world for much longer visual satire gives offence in the quickest way and in its purest form. Cartoons have long since established themselves as a legitimate part of the general political discourse. As a cartoonist, it is Rowson's job to give offence. But the flip side of giving offence is, of course, giving comfort to the opponents or victims of the offended. In Giving Offence, Rowson explains how and why cartoons work, why they matter and why the reactions of the offended are often an even blunter political weapon than...
Tolerated in Britain for over 300 years and ubiquitous throughout the world for much longer visual satire gives offence in the quickest way and in its...
In Martin Rowson s "The Waste Land," private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist mysteries: namely T. S. Eliot s "The Wasteland." Cunningly contrived, this irreverent graphic parody is inspired in equal parts by the classic modernist poem and by the American noir novels of Raymond Chandler.Marlowe, searching for his dead partner s killers, is lured into a web of murder, deceit, lust, despair and, of course, a frantic quest for the Holy Grail. Doped, duped, pistol-whipped, framed by the cops and going nowhere fast, Marlowe...
In Martin Rowson s "The Waste Land," private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist my...
