Spy vs. Spy

    (Watson-Guptill, 2002)
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This collection successfully and comprehensively puts the creations of the late Antonio Prohias into context. Fleeing Castro’s communist Cuba, Prohias established his own genre of gag strip, which became a cartoon prism through which readers could view the Cold War for 40 years. Like the two super-powers or sides of the Tao, these covert operatives reveal the best and worst sides of human nature. Simplicity and complexity. Humor and cruelty. Inventiveness and destruction.

Why did this nameless pair conduct random acts of violence upon themselves? Faithful to either their job or their pleasure, they reveal the contradictions between word and action, image and reality, and charity and self-interest. These wacky spies continue to remind us that we, as individuals, states and nations, still need to resolve these conflicts within ourselves.

— Oliver Chin
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