Constitution Illustrated

R. Sikoryak is the master of the pop culture pastiche. He interprets classic literature with defining twentieth-century comics, makes the unreadable contract that everyone signs, and investigates the framework of the country with Constitution Illustrated. He combines government articles and amendments with famous comic-book characters to distill the essence of the government legalese from the abstract to the tangible, the historical to the contemporary. American artists are homaged, with their characters reimagined in historical costumes and situations.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 128 pages
\n Publication date: 30 June 2020
\n Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
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R. Sikoryak is a master of pop culture pastiche, having interpreted classic literature with defining twentieth-century comics. He made the unreadable contract that everyone signs, and no one reads, readable with Terms and Conditions. He employs his magic yet again to investigate the framework of the country with Constitution Illustrated. By visually interpreting the complete text of the supreme law of the land with more than a century of American pop culture icons, Sikoryak distills the essence of government legalese from the abstract to the tangible, the historical to the contemporary.

Among Sikoryak's spot-on unions of government articles and amendments with famous comic-book characters are the Eighteenth Amendment that instituted prohibition, articulated with Homer Simpson running from Chief Wiggum; the Fourteenth Amendment that solidifies citizenship to all people born and naturalized in the United States, personified by Ms. Marvel; and the Nineteenth Amendment offering women the right to vote, a glorious depiction of Wonder Woman breaking free from her chains. American artists from George Herriman (Krazy Kat) and Charles Schulz (Peanuts) to Raina Telgemeier (Sisters) and Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For) are homaged, with their characters reimagined in historical costumes and situations. We the People has never been more apt.

\n Weight: 186g\n
Dimension: 176 x 127 x 13 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781770463967\n \n