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Just a year earlier, Rees was working as a temp in the Harvard Planning and Real Estate office. But, thanks to Osama Bin Laden and the editors of Rolling Stone, Rees unexpectedly rode his new comic strip to underground cultural icon status...
...fact, Rees tried to hang the strip up back in 2004, optimistically telling his editors at Rolling Stone that he would discontinue “Get Your War On” if John F. Kerry managed to bump President George W. Bush out of the White House in November. The editor, who’d been trying to get Rees to branch out and write some actual articles for the magazine anyway, agreed to the deal, and the fate of the cartoon strip was thrown to the hands of the voters...
...applause, Rees told his audience that he was probably about as bummed out about having to do another four years of “Get Your War On” as Bush was about having to serve another term. Rees spoke briefly about the history of his comic strip before reading some of his favorite panels from the last few years, reminding the audience of the historical context behind each...
...strip doesn’t stop at Bush, either—it also makes fun of his cabinet, and most of all, his supporters...
...Can’t we just build a fucking bomb the size of the earth and cut a hole in the middle in the shape of The United States?” asks one of the two men in a strip from Nov. 8, 2001. “Drop the motherfucker around us and take care of business once...