sanctity of life
In the Times profile, John Leland commented that Rees’ characters "flaunted baser instincts" while "the nation put forward its higher virtues." Rees himself, in characteristically polite fashion, begs to differ. "John Leland was a perfectly nice guy and I’m glad that he wrote an article about me. I think what happened was, he was a fan but he writes for the style section, so his piece has to be a style piece. The article did not really touch on the political side to the strip. I started making the strip for a very particular reason, which is that it enraged me that nobody was mentioning the fact that we might be, by our bombing campaign, indirectly leading to mass starvation of thousands of innocent Afghans. That didn’t really make it into the New York Times piece or the Newsweek piece."
David Rees gets interviewed again by the New York Press.
Oh, and by the way, page 18 is up.
originally posted by zagg