''Troubletown'' was a
syndicated
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weekly
comic strip by
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cartoonist
Lloyd Dangle. Begun in 1988, it ran in many
alternative weeklies, including ''
The Stranger'', ''
The Portland Mercury
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Contributors and staff
Editor-in-chief: Wm. Steven ...
'', and ''
The Austin Chronicle
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''. It also appeared in ''
The Progressive
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'' magazine. Most strips involved political
satire
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from a
liberal
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* Social liberalism
Arts, entertainment and m ...
perspective.
Several book collections of ''Troubletown'' have been published. It is also featured in the anthology ''
Attitude: The New Subversive Cartoonists''.
Dangle retired his ''Troubletown'' strip at the end of April 2011.
Collections
Comics
* ''Contract with Troubletown and Other Cartoons'' (self-published, 1995)
* ''Troubletown'' #5: ''Focus-Group Tested'' (self-published, 1997)
* ''TroubleTown''
/nowiki>#6/nowiki>: ''Funky Hipster Trash'' (self-published, 1998)
* ''Troubletown'' #7: ''Troubletown: Manifestos and Stuff'' (self-published, 2000)
Books
* ''Next Stop: Troubletown'' (Manic D Press
Manic D Press is an American literary press based in San Francisco, California publishing fiction (novels and short stories), poetry, cultural studies, art, narrative-oriented comix, children's books, and alternative travel trade paperbacks. It w ...
, 1996)
* ''Troubletown: Axis of Trouble'' (Top Shelf Productions
Top Shelf Productions is an American publishing company founded in 1997, originally owned and operated by Chris Staros and Brett Warnock and a small staff. Now an imprint of IDW Publishing, Top Shelf is based in Marietta, Georgia.
Top Shelf pu ...
, 2003)
* ''Troubletown Told You So: Comics that Could've Saved Us from this Mess'' (Top Shelf Productions, 2007)
References
External links
*
American comic strips
1988 comics debuts
Gag-a-day comics
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