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Comic book cover for 'REEL POLITIK' with cartoon characters in a movie theater scene and the text 'COMIC STRIPS BY NATHAN GELGUD'. The artwork uses bold blue, red, yellow, black, and white tones on a white background.
A black and white six-panel comic strip print on a white sheet, featuring hand-drawn cartoon characters and text including 'Reel Politik' with the date '9/26/24'.
A black and white six-panel comic strip with expressive cartoon characters and speech bubbles with text including 'LET'S GO! THIS WAY!' and 'YAAAAA!'.
A black-and-white comic strip page with multiple panels, handwritten text, and a date at the top right, shown centered on a light gray background.
Comic book cover for 'REEL POLITIK' with cartoon characters in a movie theater scene and the text 'COMIC STRIPS BY NATHAN GELGUD'. The artwork uses bold blue, red, yellow, black, and white tones on a white background.
A black and white six-panel comic strip print on a white sheet, featuring hand-drawn cartoon characters and text including 'Reel Politik' with the date '9/26/24'.
A black and white six-panel comic strip with expressive cartoon characters and speech bubbles with text including 'LET'S GO! THIS WAY!' and 'YAAAAA!'.
A black-and-white comic strip page with multiple panels, handwritten text, and a date at the top right, shown centered on a light gray background.

Reel Politik - Comic Strips by Nathan Gelgud

$ 20.00 USD
Softcover, black & white, 172 pages. Measures 4.8 x 7 inches.

An absurdist comic strip satire of cinephilia in the attention economy

A specter is haunting the cinema. A contrarian crew of small town theatre employees trade quips about directors, film criticism, and contemporary moviegoing, but underneath their banter and clashes with customers, an ideology begins to take shape. With the help of a dissatisfied cinephile and some witchy magic, the employees radicalize, take over the theatre, and seize the means of projection. 

What starts out as a workplace comedy simmers and then explodes into an absurdist Marxist-Leninist cinema-focused tract. The Reel Politik revolutionaries demand that we ditch the small screens in our pockets for the big ones in the theater as they take on streaming services, phone addiction, algorithms, phony democracy, and the conventions of moviegoing etiquette. Does that mean they hijack the Criterion Closet van? You bet it does.

Cartoonist Nathan Gelgud both champions and lampoons the aspirations and failures of cinema and not a single sacred cinematic cow goes un-punched in this manifesto for revolution through film.

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