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    Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People
    Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People
    Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People
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    Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People

    By Mr. Fish

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    “Go Fish is that rarest of creatures: an essential collection of political cartoons.” —David Rees, author of Get Your War On
     
    This volume of cartoons from the revered Mr. Fish (aka Dwayne Booth) spans politics, popular culture, economic disaster, and much more, and nobody—right, left, or middle—is safe from his razor-edged satire. Included are cartoons never previously published as well as original essays by Mr. Fish, whose work has appeared in such venues as Harper’s Magazine, Truthdig, the Los Angeles Times, TheAtlantic, and Vanity Fair.
     
    “Fish’s work makes you want to do something—even if you’re not entirely sure what that something is—to change things for the better, and the feeling stays with you long after the book is closed.” —Verbicide Magazine
     
    “A vibrant example of political cartooning as it is practiced at its heights. . . . Anyone who thinks political cartooning is stale need only take a closer look at this body of work. . . . Certifiably brilliant.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAkashic Books
    Release dateJul 19, 2011
    ISBN9781617750687
    Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People

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      Go Fish - Mr. Fish

      This collection contains cartoons previously unpublished anywhere outside of Mr. Fish’s ever-blackening soul. Those previously published first appeared in Truthdig, Harper’s Magazine, the LA Weekly, and the Village Voice. (For a complete list of publications that have printed the author’s work, please refer to his FBI file.)

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, by any means, including mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the publisher.

      Published by Akashic Books

      ©2011 Dwayne Booth

      ISBN-13: 978-1-61775-014-4

      eISBN: 978-1-61775-068-7

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2010939103

      First printing

      Printed in China

      Akashic Books

      PO Box 1456

      New York, NY 10009

      info@akashicbooks.com

      www.akashicbooks.com

      For Jeff,

      who, in my earliest memory, is running ahead of me in the blinding sunlight through the

      tall, yellow grass in New Jersey, laughing his head off, not wanting to get caught and not

      wanting to get away, making me a path to feel fast in

      And special thanks to Robert Scheer and Zuade Kaufman of Truthdig

      for providing the horn for my bull

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      TITLE PAGE

      COPYRIGHT PAGE

      GO, FISH. GO! (an introduction)

      ACCEPTANCE

      DEPRESSION

      BARGAINING

      ANGER

      DENIAL

      WHY I AM NOT A CARTOONIST (an appendix)

      Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wrote a book in 1969 called On Death and Dying. In it she described how there are five stages of grief that one might expect to experience when facing the end of life. When it became a national best seller, she expanded the concept to include anybody experiencing a catastrophic personal loss, like a drug addict hitting rock bottom or anybody who suddenly finds himself or herself incarcerated or destitute or limbless or celibate or pregnant. Then the concept was expanded further still, to include anybody who has ever been passed over for a promotion at work or anybody whose pet has ever run away or anybody who has ever woken up with beard burns on her uterus and the sound of the First Battalion, Twenty-Third Marine Regiment singing Thank Heaven for Little Girls from the shower. Anybody, really, who has been blessed by a normal life and who has easy access to the K shelf in the death-and-dying section of a bookstore.

      The five stages of grief, according to Kübler-Ross, are, from first to last: 1) denial, 2) anger, 3) bargaining, 4) depression, and 5) acceptance. Of course, those stages are now as endemic to how we perceive ourselves as the way we brush our teeth and elect our presidents and seek out validation in self-help books for any emotion that we find we cannot repress effortlessly.

      Now, assuming that these are, in fact, legitimate emotional phases that everyone experiences when clobbered by some unforeseen disaster (and not simply just another academic concoction designed to sell books and further promote the bullshit illusion that the inner workings of a human being can be sorted and labeled and cataloged and understood as easily as the innards of a cuckoo clock), I have to figure that these must also be the same stages that a person who attempts to preemptively clobber disaster before being clobbered by it must experience, only in reverse. Somebody who can look up and recognize impending disaster everywhere, as if each potential disaster were a big stinky bison, part of a dispersed herd both polka-dotting the horizon and standing close enough to fog the sheen off our patent leather shoes while munching at the flowers that we planted in celebration of our eternal optimism.

      Thusly, just such a person would begin by 1) accepting the fact that he lives in the world and has a certain measure of responsibility to help maintain both his own and the world’s longevity and well being. Perhaps his motivations are selfish, purely predicated on something as ignoble as self-preservation. No matter, he accepts that he would rather survive in the world than succumb to its hostilities, knowing full well that there are forces and menacing realities that exist contrary to his mission, maybe even in active contempt of it. He accepts that his egotism may not keep him safe, but that it might confuse him sufficiently with just enough narcissism to propel him forward with some self-edifying sense of purpose into a lifetime unlikely to corroborate his self-regard.

      Almost immediately 2) depressed by his inability to profoundly improve upon the indifferent mediocrity of human existence or to inspire a global collaboration between enlightened men and women capable of challenging the thuggish inhospitality of the world and to ultimately mellow it, he will wonder if his innate desire to help maintain both his own and the world’s longevity and well being is a waste of time. Maybe it is even worse than that; specifically, a terminal form of spiritual self-destruction. Perhaps it is a death wish. Like a prisoner confined to a tiny cell, he will question the usefulness of his dreams of freedom, believing that because they are unreal beyond the confines of his sleep and have never known physical expression, they must be nightmares. How else to explain the impossibility of their realization? He is a stone preoccupied with the insane notion that weightlessness is a matter of will and not physics.

      He will then find himself 3) bargaining with the dismissive universe, as if it has ears, telling it that in exchange for him not attempting to alter it that it should attempt to reward his goodwill by going out of its way to not alter him. Upon realizing that his request for mutual respect is directed at a reality vast enough to make him puny by comparison and insignificant beyond measure, his voice so microscopic as to not even rise to the level of a whisper, he will turn his back on reality—fuck it! He will then bargain with himself. He will promise not to expect any tangible reward for his perseverance in exchange for the energy to continue failing miserably without succumbing to the madness that comes with continuing to

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