Times Like These
'Deceptively intelligent and exceptionally moreish' Charlie Brooker
Discover the truth behind the headlines with this collection of Private Eye's popular reportage column 'Scene & Heard' including previously unseen sketches and stories. David Ziggy Greene travels the country asking questions and sketching scenes of modern life. His detailed, funny, astute works of graphic reportage - at protests and festivals, cycle rides, farms and prisons - reveal the human cost of policy and the profound local impact of legislation.
This new collection of columns contains brand new material - including a series of insightful sketches of human hubs such as A&E, the tube and the courts. With a foreword by Mark Thomas.
Book details
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9781910463949
- Published
- 1 May 2018
- Pages
- 144
- Duration
- Dimensions
- 157 x 227 mm
- Genre
- Politics
- Imprint
- September
Reviews
'With his beautiful illustrations and incisive words, Greene is one of the most important cartoonists working today'
'Unusually for modern journalism, Scene & Heard leaves the reader with more questions than fourth-hand conjecture masquerading as insight. As brutally honest as one might hope. Brilliant'
'Fantastic'
'Deceptively intelligent and exceptionally moreish'
'For years in the pages of Private Eye "Scene & Heard" has combined to telling effect a journalist's news sense and ear for a quote with an artist's eye for the human condition, once a fortnight, for less than the price of a bog-standard pint in a characterless booze-barn'
'Yeah. What he said'
'David is one of the greatest political cartoonists we have, with a sharp insight and expression that is equally matched by his great draughtsmanship'
'It's the gentle warmth of Greene's approach that gives these stories their unexpected power; the understated humaneness of watching and listening and composing these snapshots of modern public political life'
'A refreshing piece of unbiased reporting in a sea of cynicism'
'To condense each complex subject into a handful of soundbites that are so inherently revealing about the diversity of public opinion on any given matter is a tribute to Greene's perceptive approach to this undertaking'
'Times Like These is a beautiful example of the power of the comics medium to be used in different ways... very, warmly human, and personal... It's a fascinating series of snapshots of society, drawn – literally – from all walks of life'
'A ride through humanity. Which, yes, is often hideous but the details are fascinating. Greene's pen-line makes sure of that'
'A fascinating look at the modern political climate through a very unique perspective... each strip has both the objectivity of a journalist, but the political passion of someone who really cares about what he is doing'