Taxes, The Tea Party, and Those Revolting Rebels: A History in Comics of the American Revolution

Presenting the American Revolution in a fun, easy-to-understand fashion, Stan Mack’s illustrated rendition makes history entertaining while providing lucid insight into the revolution’s real-life participants, as well as its successes and failures. This graphic account of the birth of the United States stars a chubby, insecure King George III, rebellious and misunderstood colonists, and loudmouthed and insensitive aristocrats, providing information about the Boston Tea Party and the revolt against the status quo. Uncannily relevant to today’s world, this whimsical and informative pictorial history tells the story of the original peoples’ insurgence.

“A cartoonist de-mythologizes the Founding Fathers and makes them more like us.” –New York Times

“Delightfully illustrated in his distinctive minimalist cartoon style, Mack’s first original book-length effort puts the ‘real life’ back into our revolutionary roots, providing capsule portraits of the prominent activists of the time, along with their many idiosyncrasies, comic flaws, and strategic bungling.” –Publishers Weekly