By Donald Rooum
Publisher: Freedom Press
ISBN: 978-1-904491-14-9
Donald has been creating the Wildcat strips since 1975, originally in a title by the same name and then in Freedom, the anarchist newspaper, and this is the seventh such collection.
I was a little apprehensive when I picked this up to read as I’ve never held strong political views and I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Here were cartoons on the surveillance society, fat cat bankers, hypocrital attitudes in world affairs, the arms trade and religion, and I found myself nodding, smiling and agreeing page after page. I’m not sure if this means I’m a closet anarchist or the sentiment is rather more mainstream than first apparant.
The strips themselves aren’t weilded as blunt weapons, and often the punchline is delivered to the detriment of Wildcat, which, I suppose, is a sad reflection of reality and a source of dark humour indeed. What they certainly do is give you pause to think, and that’s something well worth celebrating.
And if you liked that: There are many more Wildcat collections available from the Freedom Press website: www.freedompress.org.uk
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