This is a brave and important book in the history of graphic humour. Hopeless and despairing as it is in this collection, humour is one of the only weapons left that artists have to fight the relentless greed and cruelty of progress. F*** is a remarkable book which will further comfort the sensibilities of Mankind in the face of the bleak inevitability of Evolution.
Martin Rowson has been a full-time freelance cartoonist since graduating from Cambridge University in 1982. His cartoons have appeared regularly in The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Mirror, The Independent on Sunday, The Scotsman, The Spectator, Tribune, The Morning Star and many other publications. Twice winner of the Cartoon Museum's Political Cartoonist of the Year, he has also produced many books, including a memoir, "Stuff", a novel called "Snatches" and graphic adaptations of TS Eliot's "The Waste Land" and Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy".
He was appointed Cartoonist Laureate for London by Ken Livingstone in 2001 (and reappointed by Boris Johnson in 2008, subject to terms and conditions), and is also an honorary associate of The National Secular Society, a trustee of The Cartoon Museum and a former vice-president of the Zoological Society of London.
His latest book tells the story of Earth, from the Big Bang, the emergence of life, the death of the dinosaurs, the dawn of civilization, the invention of the wheel, the Trojan War, the Crucifixion, the Fall of Rome, the Black Death, the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution, World War One, Nazism, consumerism, the Cold War, 9/11 and beyond to the End of the World, in sixty seven beautiful, savage, splendidly satirical images, all with only one word in the speech bubbles.
22 - 27 September 2008
MONDAY – SATURDAY
10AM – 5PM
Digital images are available from the gallery
A fully illustrated catalogue will be on sale, and all images will be featured on the website.
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