The Pain – When Will It End?
The Pain – When Will It End? is a cartoon drawn by Tim Kreider (born February 25, 1967) from 1994 until June 8, 2009 (with sporadic updates through early 2013). The first editions were self-published, until the cartoon began running weekly in the Baltimore City Paper in 1997.[1][2] It has since also been picked up by the Jackson Planet Weekly and The Indy in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. From September 2000, it also appeared as a webcomic.[3][4]
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Author(s) | Tim Kreider |
Website | www |
Current status/schedule | Weekly |
Launch date | September 20, 2000 (online) |
Genre(s) | Political, Social commentary |
Many of Kreider's comics during the 2000s addressed issues in American politics from a point of view harshly critical of the George W. Bush administration.[4] He is among the artists featured in Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists, edited by Ted Rall (2004).[1] Kreider also received coverage in The New York Times in 2006 for his defense of Pluto as a planet before and after its demotion to dwarf planet.[5][1]
Anthologies in book form have been published as The Pain – When Will It End? (May 2004),[2] Why Do They Kill Me? (May 2005),[3] and Twilight of the Assholes: Cartoons & Essays 2005–2009 (February 2011).[6] A limited-edition collection of his political cartoons, Fuck Them All, was published in September 2004. A collection of essays and cartoons, We Learn Nothing, was published in 2012.[4]
References
- Dave Davies (reporter) (June 14, 2019). "Essayist Breaks Free From Conventional Relationships In 'Because I Love You'". NPR. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
- Tim Kreider (June 2004). Pain: When Will It End?. Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 978-1560975687.
- Tim Kreider (May 2005). Why Do They Kill Me?. Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 978-1560976639.
- Lucas Kavner (December 7, 2012). "'Busy Trap' Writer Tim Kreider Talks New Book, Resigning Himself To Ambition". Huffington Post. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
- Kreider, Tim (August 23, 2006). "I ♥ Pluto". The New York Times. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
- Tim Kreider (February 2011). Twilight of the Assholes (The Chronicles of the Era of Darkness 2005-2009). Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 978-1606993989.