By Donald Rooum (Freedom Press)
ISBN: 0-900384-47-6
Donald Rooum has been fighting the good, reasoned, acerbic but never strident fight for his particular political and ethical standpoint since the 1960s. He has mostly used that most devastating of weapons, the pen, to deliver his payloads of reasoned integrity. This volume is no exception.
Culled from the archives of Freedom magazine, where the Wildcat strip has run for decades, this slim volume presents a number of views of not just The Enemy, exemplified as Governments, Police, Big Business, The Church and smug know-it-alls of all nations but also some telling glances at Anarchists themselves – who, as you might suspect, are often their own worst enemies.
Crammed with magical drawing and compelling reasoning, there’s also plenty of laughs on hand and some lovely additional pages of humorous factoids on and about the subject of cats; cartoon, wild or otherwise.
Donald Rooum’s work is a cartoon connoisseur’s delight: Incisive, reasoned, beautifully illustrated and lettered, and above all, passionate and honest. Everyone, of whatever persuasion, should see what he’s saying, and how.
© 1989, 2007 Donald Rooum. All Rights Reserved.