Taxes, the Tea Party, and Those Revolting Rebels A History in Comics of the American Revolution

Readers young and old alike will love this entertaining and timely comic book that offers a concise and accessible summary of the founding of the USA. With an uncanny relevance to modern American politics, contained within is the original revolt against taxes: the Boston Tea Party. That's also not to forget the original Occupy movement: the Rebels in revolt against the status quo. A whimsical and informative pictorial history featuring a chubby, insecure King George III, rebellious and misunderstood colonialists, loud-mouthed and insensitive aristocrats and more.

Stan Mack is a writer and artist who pioneered a documentary style of comics with his notorious strip Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies, which ran in the Village Voice. He also created Stan Mack’s Out-takes, which appeared in Adweek and covered the New York media scene. He is the author of Fight for Freedom, Hard Time, Janet & Me, The Road to Revolution, and The Story of the Jews: A 4,000-Year Adventure. He is a former art director for the New York Times Sunday Magazine. He lives in New York City.