Great piece on David Rees of Get Your War On fame, “The Accidental Artist” by Judith Lewis:

Rees has no illusions about the strip’s importance; in fact, he almost gave it up altogether after the summer, but started again when the Bush administration made the staggeringly vulgar decision to hire Henry Kissinger to investigate the events of September 11. “When that happened,” Rees recalled, “I sat down and said to myself, ‘Okay, let’s see if I’ve still got it.'”

He did: “Does Bush even know who these motherfuckers are?” asks one of the strip’s generic office workers while talking on the phone. “Didn’t he get suspicious when he saw Kissinger and John Poindexter licking the blood off each other’s hands?”

[ via randomWalks ]
There’s a Get Your War On event here in New York on the evening of the 16th, drop me a line if you’d like to go with.