Book blurb:
The Big Bad Bitterkomix Mandbook Anton Kannemeyer and Conrad Botes
Over the last ten years or so, Bitterkomix has been (as one critic remarks) 'consistently challenging and outrageous, undeniably brilliant, and impossible to ignore.' Internationally, Bitterkomix's duo of Anton Kannemeyer and Conrad Botes stand at the forefront of the new international expressionist comix movement Locally they have raised a storm of controversy through their assault on the Afrikaner cultural mainstream, which they have developed into a broader critique of South African society
The Big Bad Bitterkomix Handbook brings together the full range of Kannemeyer and Botes's work produced from the early 1990s until now, including published covers, postcards, posters and drawings from personal sketchbooks. Interspersed with these images, and providing both context and comment, are a number of essays and addresses by such commentators as Antjie Krog, Andy Mason, Ryk Hattingh and Gregory Kerr.
The resultant book, which has been designed by Garth Walker of Orange Juice Design, is an essential chronicle, Catalogue and visual cornucopia of the work of the Bitterkomix artists.