Slowpoke Comic Strip Collection Available in September

Posted: Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Posted By: Shawn Patty

Cartoonist Jen Sorensen announces SLOWPOKE: America Gone Bonkers comic strip collection for September 2004

Jen Sorensen honored for second consecutive year by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies

Cartoonist Jen Sorensen, recently honored by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies for the second consecutive year for her self-syndicated ‘Slowpoke’ comic strip, has announced that Alternative Comics will release her latest strip collection SLOWPOKE: America Gone Bonkers in September 2004. Jen Sorensen’s ‘Slowpoke’, which runs in numerous alternative newspapers around the country, won second place for “Best Cartoon” at the 9th annual Alternative Newsweekly Awards held June 25 at the AAN Convention in San Antonio.

SLOWPOKE: America Gone Bonkers is Xeric Grant-winning cartoonist Jen Sorensen’s second collection of her brilliant weekly cartoon “Slowpoke”. Through her characters Little Gus, Mr. Perkins, and the terminally horny Drooly Julie, Sorensen slams the Bush regime, vapid trends, and corporate gluttony with her trademark brand of absurdist humor.

The cartoonist said of her new collection, “America has always been a little bit bonkers, but in the past few years, we’ve entered new, uncharted realms of bonkerdom. If Americans would take a moment to think outside the flag-covered box and see themselves as the rest of the world now does, they’d be horrified.”

The cartoons in this timely comic treasury lampoon the Bush years, but they also take on the chaos of our cornball culture. From This Week in Geek Chic to the strange-but-true executive retreat where bosses learn to treat their employees like horses, this book is a bulging cornucopia of perversion and subversion, and big laffs to boot.

“Slowpoke is a jab in the side of corporations, governments, and cargo-pants enthusiasts everywhere. Its creator, Jen Sorensen, is a funny, reliable, and wise contributor who never lampoons editors. Highly recommended.” – Cathryn Harding, Editor, C-VILLE Weekly

A Xeric Grant winner, Kimberly Yale Award nominee for Best New Talent, and Association of Alternative Newspapers award-winner, Jen Sorensen is rapidly becoming a prominent voice in the altweekly world. ‘Slowpoke’ made its debut in 1998, and has since spread to three out of four corners of the continental United States. It appears in such papers as the Silicon Valley Metro, VC Reporter (Ventura County), C-Ville Weekly (Charlottesville, VA), Local Planet Weekly (Spokane), as well as in the nationally-distributed Funny Times, Z Magazine, and Missouri Review literary journal.

In 2001, Sorensen published a grant-funded collection of the first two years of Slowpoke strips, entitled Slowpoke: Café Pompous. Slowpoke was recently featured in Ted Rall’s popular anthology, Attitude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists. Sorensen’s work is also highlighted in Trina Robbins’ book, The Great Women Cartoonists.

Jen Sorensen was a featured speaker at the first annual ACLU membership conference in Washington, D.C. in 2003. In addition to Slowpoke, Jen does freelance illustration for such magazines as Nickelodeon, National Geographic Kids, and Legal Affairs.

SLOWPOKE: America Gone Bonkers by Jen Sorensen, for mature readers, 112 pages, 8” x 8”, $12.95, Diamond Code: JUL04 2537, ISBN: 1-891867-78-4, September 2004.

For more information about Jen Sorensen, visit her website at: http://www.slowpokecomics.com

The Alternative Comics website is: http://www.indyworld.com/altcomics

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