Constitution Illustrated by R. Sikoryak - 9781770463967

Name: Constitution Illustrated by R. Sikoryak - 9781770463967
Brand: Drawn and Quarterly

Drawn and Quarterly

Constitution IllustratedAuthor(s): R. Sikoryak\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Drawn and Quarterly, Canada\nImprint: Drawn and Quarterly\nISBN-13: 9781770463967, 978-1770463967\nSynopsis\nR. Sikoryak is the master of the pop culture pastiche. In Masterpiece Comics, he interpreted classic literature with defining twentieth-century comics. With Terms and Conditions, he made the unreadable contract that everyone signs, and no one reads, readable. He employs his magic yet again to investigate the very 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 very essence of the 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: the Eighteenth Amendment that instituted prohibition is articulated with.