Ted Rall

The Year of Loving Dangerously: A Graphic Memoir

What sets this apart from a lot of other autobiog work, and in fact elevates it to that higher standard set by Spiegelman, Pekar, Spain, Crumb, etc., is that Ted Rall’s neither looking for sympathy nor approval in this work. He’s fully cognisant of the fact that it’s his choices that has put him in the position that he’s in.

Ted Rall 2

This interview is the second with Ted Rall, multiple award-winning political and editorial cartoonist, journalist and broadcaster. In this interview from 2002, Ted talks with Ken Gale and Mercy Van Vlack about his experiences in Afghanistan following the events of September 11th, 2001, his falling-out with Art Spiegelman, and a variety of other topics.

This interview, from 27 January 1997, is the first of two with Ted Rall, political and editorial cartoonist, journalist and broadcaster, whose work had been collected in eight books to that date. He talked with Ken Gale about his early career and influences, the pessimistic future of political cartooning in the USA, and the collective underside of the American psyche, gleefully explored in his book, Real Americans Admit: The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done!