America

BOOK "AMERICA" OF 528 PAGES. PACKAGE CONTAINS TWO VOLUMES (VOL. LIVE & VOL. DIE) IN CARDBOARD BOX. Big book of collected works. Cartoons, drawings and paintings brought together for the first time.

Mike Diana‘s work is powerful, upsetting, offensive, and sometimes unpleasant. His art style is simple, primal, and dangerous: like EC Comics retold for today by Gary Panter. But there‘s an honesty to Mike‘s work that has always made me want to read it, even when it disturbs me. Art should afflict the comfortable and disturb the complacent, and Mike Diana‘s work does that in spades. He‘s been arrested for his art, he‘s been sentenced for his art, and a local police force was even charged to make 24 hour random raids and spot-checks on Mike‘s living space, to make sure he wasn‘t committing art in secret. Now you can find out what all the fuss was about.

Neil Gaiman