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The Amazing Snox Box is a cautionary tale that helps us to see —
How bamboozled we are by the thing called TV. Right now, in large part thanks to television, Media consumers are undermined by manipulation.
This story warns us to take a fresh look, So I hope you make time for reading this book—Norman Solomon |
| Brian Gage is sneaky. His Snox Box comes on all charm and cuteness, while delivering a withering critique of the media. If TV sugarcoats the poison it delivers with entertainment, Brian Gage sugarcoats the antidote with humor and grace. —Robbie Conal | |
The Amazing Snox Box
Brian Gage
Illustrated by Tom Ellsworth
Colored by Robert Park
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| Cloth | 10" x 10" | 120 pgs. | ISBN: 1-887128-57-3 | List: $20.00 | 06/1/2003 |
Available on Powells.com, Amazon.com, from your local BookSense store, and bookstores everywhere!
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About the book: The Amazing Snox Box is a brilliant satire of the narcotic effect of television in American culture. The second book by Brian Gage, author of Snark Inc: A Corporate Fable, fuses the wit and charm of a children’s book with a nuanced and clever critique of the excesses of a culture based on consumption. With a visual style that combines the dystopic Blade Runner with the utopic Jetsons, The Amazing Snox Box takes on the media in a new form of graphic novel: a children’s-book-for-adults. A culture jamming fable for the 21st century, The Amazing Snox Box offers a dark critique of how TV seduces and then manipulates the average citizen.
About the author: Brian Gage is a writer living in Los Angeles, California. He attended The Ohio State University and received a bachelor’s degree in business administration. Since then he’s been very busy making fun of Corporate America and Consumer Culture.
Tom Ellsworth was born in San Luis Obispo, California. He moved to San Francisco in 1994 to go to the Academy of Art College and graduated in 1998. A freelance illustrator, his clients include Hewlett-Packard, Performance Computing magazine, and 3Djoe.com.
Links: Brian Gage's website: briangage.comThe official Amazing Snox Box site: snoxbox.com
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