The Culture Vultures

    (Iconografix, 1993)
™ and ©1993 Tom Roberts and Jim Siergey

Satire is a very powerful, very important branch of literature. With it, one can openly discuss subjects normally considered too delicate to approach by any other vehicle. Satire can shed a bright enough light on the human condition without being stark and blinding, as is the light of truth. Satire can make us look hard at ourselves and what we do if it’s funny enough, witty enough, ironic enough. The Culture Vultures is all of the above.

This comic is a collection of well-crafted snippets—most of which feature two ever-hungry Cathartidae (New World family of vulture) that usually pick their meal off the bones of the culturally effete. Actually, these vultures have very discriminating tastes and would prefer to eat up creative artists in their prime, as America does with its cultural heroes. These two Culture Vultures, in fact, represent many large birds of prey.
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