The Antifa Super-Soldier Cookbook

by Mattie Lubchansky

Overview

What if everything the right thought about the left was real? Accomplished ANTIFA operative Max Marx is about to get THE big promotion: body augmentation to become a fully-fledged super-soldier in the shadowy organization's never-ending battle to destroy the police, the American way of life, gender, capitalism, and anything else they decide to deem “fascist.”
The next frontline: internet celebrity and right-wing gadfly Adonis Asproulis is about to give a lecture on the campus of the prestigious Earle University. Adonis could do the impossible: present college students with a debate, ANTIFA'S worst nightmare. Can Max and his comrades get to the university and deplatform him in time? Or can the officers of the Big City PD and newly-promoted Sergeant Paul O'Shea put a stop to it?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945509643
Publisher:	Silver Sprocket
Publication date:	04/13/2021
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Mattie Lubchansky is a queer nonbinary cartoonist and the Associate Editor of the Ignatz award-winning magazine and website The Nib. Their work has appeared in VICE, Eater, Mad Magazine, Gothamist, The Toast, The Hairpin, Brooklyn Magazine, New York Magazine, Food and Wine, and Current Affairs. They are the co-author of Dad Magazine, author of Skeleton Party, and co-editor of and contributor to Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (and Not So Possible) Tomorrows. Mattie lives in Queens, NY, with their partner.

Editorial Reviews

04/19/2021

Lubchansky, a cartoonist and editor at The Nib, reveals the secrets of left-wing protest groups with tongue held firmly in cheek, starting from the premise, “What if everything the right thought about the left was real?” It turns out activists only pretend to spend most of their time in boring meetings; a flyer for homemade kombucha hides the button to access their secret lair, where the President of Antifa oversees the construction of cyborg super-soldiers. The clashes between protestors and police build to a showdown between Antifa super-soldier Max Marx and Sgt. O’Shea, a cop enhanced with state-of-the-art police weaponry. In the end both sides come off as similarly awful, muddying the satirical message. Lubchansky’s thickly inked, boldly colored artwork keeps the visuals as broadly cartoonish as the plot, ensuring that even while dipping into real issues of police violence and free speech, nothing gets too serious. Some of the in-jokes may fly over the heads of less meme-aware readers, such as references to concrete milkshakes or the can of soup Max wields while warning, “Prepare to be... deplatformed.” All in all, the concept is just substantial enough to sustain a 60-page comic—fortunately, that’s exactly what this delivers. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

"Lubchansky is an up-and-coming artist whose work exemplifies the cadence and structure of a new generation. Their work was distinguished by a wise diversity of subject matter and a cleverly askew sense of humor." —2020 Herblock Prize judges

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