The BackBench Collection
$14.95 Cdn, $12.95 US, 120 pp. Available at your favourite bookstore or visit www.ronsdalepress.com.
"Graham Harrop has what most cartoonists dream of — an unfettered
imagination, a sublime silliness and as graceful a way with words as with pen and brush.
In this collection, he meanders through Canada's psyche in the same way Margaret Mead tromped
through Samoa. And with better gams."
— Dan Murphy, Editorial Cartoonist for the Vancouver Province
"BackBench" has appeared daily for almost 20 years in The Globe and Mail, both as a comic strip and as a panel cartoon. With his witty, irreverent humour, Harrop has satirized most of Canada's major political figures. He has commented on government scandals, the cozy connection of politicians and pop idols, and the continuing battles between the feds and the provinces. He is noted for his humorous take on Leonard Cohen in his much publicized retreat to a California monastery as well as Margaret Atwood and her "remote pen" for signing books. Above all, however, Harrop focuses on everyday happenings: the struggle between doctors and their patients, the fashion industry, computer technicians, fast food outlets, Revenue Canada's voracious appetite and, more recently, the 2010 winter Olympics. In his wonderfully suggestive cartoons, this gentle satirist has been making us laugh at our leaders, our celebrities and ourselves, causing us to turn each day without fail to the comics page of Canada's leading newspaper.
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