The comics blog Sequential Tart has reviewed The Year of Loving Dangerously:

When the events of Ted Rall’s and Pablo G. Callejo’s The Year of Loving Dangerously, occurred, I was not yet born. However, it is a testament to the timelessness of Rall’s tale (and the depressing state of the country) that I feel as though the things that happened to him could happen to anyone even now, more than twenty years later. I enjoyed this graphic novel immensely and have been encouraged to check out more of Rall’s books. Read this book with an open mind and eye for detail and I think you will enjoy it just as much.

Click the above link if you want more details; it’s a long review.

America’s losing yet another war, but I’m taking a victory lap. For the first time, I think, I’m on FOX Business’ PR NewsWire courtesy of my book publisher. Warning: this is PR shilling, not a “real” news article. But it’s nice to be right. Again. (Wish I wasn’t, though.)

Enjoy.

NEW YORK, Dec 14, 2009 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ —-In 2001, swept up in a patriotic furor spawned by 9/11, the Bush Administration sent troops into Afghanistan. But not everyone was convinced this was a righteous cause, editorial cartoonist Ted Rall among them. And rather than sit on the sidelines and witness the media flag-waving, he hopped a flight and went to Afghanistan himself. As he chronicled his trip for the Village Voice, his conclusion was clear: “We lost the war.” And from then on, he was a loud dissenter against the troop buildup that remains in place to this day.

Unfortunately, according to Rall, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Mere weeks ago, President Obama announced another buildup in troops would be headed for Afghanistan. And once more, Ted Rall is making his voice heard, and loudly. In a lengthy interview with the Chicago Red Eye, Rall cut loose on what he sees as the current administration’s folly in Afghanistan:

(On Obama’s speech) “It was a disaster. Like Bush, he didn’t have anything new to say — just more of the same. There’s no end in sight, no point to the carnage to come, and still no reason to be in Afghanistan.”

I’ll be signing books in San Diego tomorrow night. In the meantime, check out this interview from the San Diego Union-Tribune with a focus on politics and YOLD.

And also check out this radio interview.

I’ll be signing, discussing and reading from “The Year of Loving Dangerously” at Barnes & Noble on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. This is a major appearance at the city’s preeminent B&N, so please come out and support me…save the date!

Tuesday, February 16, 2010
7 pm
Barnes & Noble
2289 Broadway at 82nd Street
New York NY

There will be no NYC book signings prior to this date.

My friend and Columbia classmate Jim Davidson reviews YOLD.