The most influential cartoonist now working." -The New York Times

Pat Oliphant is an editorial cartoonist who leans fully to the left, but rarely loses his balance, which is important, since he carries a sharp pen." -Senator Bob Dole

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Neither Democrat nor Republican is safe from the influential paintbrush of political commentator and cartoonist Pat Oliphant. A master of what he calls "confrontational art," Oliphant spares no one as he covers Bush's tenure in office-drawing comparisons on the war in Iraq to Vietnam, Kim Jong Il's nuclear antics to a circus act, and President George W. Bush's time in office with the reign of The Little King.

* Oliphant is the most widely syndicated political cartoonist in the world, currently published in more than 500 newspapers and magazines worldwide, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the New Yorker.

"Insightful and venomously cynical political cartoons . . . Rall straddles stereotypes, avoids party lines like live wires. . . . A true freethinker." --Las Vegas Mercury

There simply isn't a more polarizing, more controversial, or more widely read political and social cartoonist than Ted Rall.

Matt Groening: "Ted Rall makes me laugh out loud." 

Rush Limbaugh: "What is sad is that such an ignoramus ends up as a prominent cartoonist in major newspapers."

Janet Clayton, L.A. Times editorial page editor: "He's wonderfully incisive. He has a way of looking at the world that is rarely articulated in editorial cartoons."

Bernard Goldberg, author of 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America: "There is loathsome and there is beneath loathsome. And then there's Ted Rall."

Love him or hate him, Rall has a unique drawing style and makes caustic social commentary that sets him apart from the pack. America Gone Wild features Rall's most controversial cartoons assembled for the first time in a single collection. Rall views his strips as a vehicle for driving social change. He applies his outrageous sense of humor to volatile topics from 9/11 and the Iraq war to social issues such as unemployment, the environment, and religion. This collection comprises his edgiest material and features lengthy behind-the-scenes commentary from Rall.

No editorial cartoonist in America wields a sharper pen than Pat Oliphant. Congressional members, Senate candidates, and presidents from past and present bear the black of his ink.When We Can't See the Forest for the Bushes, boasting the latest cartoons from the last presidential election, shows the "cranky when he wants to be, fiercely independent, relentlessly independent" Oliphant at the top of his game. Whether he has the present administration or the merging air carriers in his sights, it's clear why readers in more than 300 newspapers worldwide cannot get enough of Oliphant.