The Pain – When Will It End?

The Pain – When Will It End?
Author(s)Tim Kreider
Websitewww.thepaincomics.com/new_index.htm Edit this at Wikidata
Current status/scheduleWeekly
Launch dateSeptember 20, 2000 (online)
Genre(s)Political, social commentary

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). It was self-published until it began running weekly in the Baltimore City Paper in 1997.[1][2] It was later picked up by the Jackson Planet Weekly and The Indy in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. Since September 2000, it is also a webcomic.[3][4]

Many of Kreider's comics during the 2000s addressed issues in American politics from a point of view harshly critical of the Presidency of George W. Bush.[4] He is among the artists featured in Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists, edited by Ted Rall (2004).[1] In 2006, The New York Times printed his defense of Pluto as a planet before and after its demotion to dwarf planet.[5][1]

Anthology books include 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, Fuck Them All, was published in September 2004 and a collection of essays and cartoons, We Learn Nothing, in 2012.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Dave Davies (reporter) (June 14, 2019). "Essayist Breaks Free From Conventional Relationships In 'Because I Love You'". NPR. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  2. ^ a b Tim Kreider (June 2004). Pain: When Will It End?. Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 978-1560975687.
  3. ^ a b Tim Kreider (May 2005). Why Do They Kill Me?. Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 978-1560976639.
  4. ^ a b c Lucas Kavner (December 7, 2012). "'Busy Trap' Writer Tim Kreider Talks New Book, Resigning Himself To Ambition". Huffington Post. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  5. ^ Kreider, Tim (August 23, 2006). "I ♥ Pluto". The New York Times. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
  6. ^ Tim Kreider (February 2011). Twilight of the Assholes (The Chronicles of the Era of Darkness 2005-2009). Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 978-1606993989.
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