Sports Is Hell

by Ben Passmore

Overview

Some wars are for religion and some are for political belief, but this one is for football.

After her city wins the Super Bowl for the first time, Tea is separated from her friend during a riot and joins a small clique fighting its way through armed groups of football fanatics to meet a star receiver that just might end the civil war or become the city's new oppressive leader.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945509674
Publisher:	Silver Sprocket
Publication date:	04/01/2021
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	60
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

BEN PASSMORE is a Philadelphia, PA based cartoonist and illustrator best known for his award-winning comic Your Black Friend (Silver Sprocket), which deftly tackles issues of racism, identity and alienation, and was adapted into a short animated film. His political cartooning appears in The Nib, and he is the cartoonist behind the post-apocalyptic series Daygloahole (Silver Sprocket). He partnered with Ezra Claytan Daniels (Upgrade Soul) to bring the body horrific BTTM FDRS (Fantagraphics).

Editorial Reviews

"A dead-on parody of the good-and-evil, triumph-and-tragedy narratives fostered by organized sports." —Etelka Lehoczky, NPR

"Amid the story's chaos and the exhausting noise of politics today, Sports Is Hell provides an unexpected clarity on the complex schisms of modern American culture while serving up a ton of laughs." —Moe Abbas, Broken Frontier

"A raw political fable that uses a sports night riot to express disillusion with the calculated human sacrifices made in the interest of political gain." —Jamie Lovett, ComicBook.com

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