My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable - Softcover

Rees, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573223824 ISBN 13: 9781573223829

Publisher: Riverhead Trade, 2004

Synopsis

A mercilessly funny collection of cartoons from the author of My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable and Get Your War On takes a new journey inside the corporate world to capture the lives and fortunes of his cubicle slaves. Original. 40,000 first printing.

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About the Author

David Rees is the author of the cult hit comic books Get Your War On, all royalties for which were donated to the Adopt-a-Minefield charity, and My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable. He draws a clip-art comic that appears in every issue of Rolling Stone, plays in the band Skeleton Killers, and works the occasional temp job.

Reviews

From the disparate extremes of corporate banality and his own furious imagination, Rees has crafted a world seething with humor. Following his antiwar hit Get Your War On and his samurai spoof, My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable, this is a hilarious satire of workplace desperation taken to a medieval level of agony and the madness needed to survive it. Visually, the story consists of bland clip art taken from business presentation manuals, but Rees skillfully uses the same drawings over and over again to create an entire cast of characters. These doomed office drones speak in a profane gangsta patois that is anything but boring. "You're being killed by the numbers? Fuckin' count harder man!... You are real. You are better! Say that shit ten times." Tensions mount as the unnamed company tries to find a new filing technique that will neutralize the presumed boredom and incompetence of its workers. Dr. Fanderbiles, a consultant portrayed by a drawing from the 1920s, is brought in to increase productivity, but things go terribly wrong, even when he promises team members a chance to "jump out of an airplane and hold hands." This work joins Office Space, Work is Hell and Dilbert as a fantastic recreation of the middle-management tedium and petty in-fighting that the workplace can become. Unlike Dilbert's wasteland, though, this office actually seems to be a very exciting place, what with people turning invisible, databases blowing up and computers using Scotch tape to network. Rees is quickly becoming one of Gen Y's foremost humorists.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Riverhead Trade
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1573223824
• ISBN 13: 9781573223829
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64