Author Pens Modern Day ANIMAL FARM, Misunderstands Term “Graphic Novel”

 

 

When I found out that there were websites out there like Bleeding Fool dedicated to graphic novels, I was absolutely thrilled—because it just so happens that I wrote a very, very graphic novel that I think everyone in the United States needs to read. The novel is called CITY ZOO an unfairy story—and like Orwell’s ANIMAL FARM, it’s a fable about animals, but with political overtones with a rich foundation of subtext intended to symbolize actual historical events; in CITY ZOO’s case, the last several years.

 

 

In the first few chapters of my novel CITY ZOO, now in paperback, I graphically describe how the animals have driven all of the people out of the eponymous City Zoo, and established the first ever republic of animals, by animals, and for animals, all led by a duly elected Animal Zookeeper. Then in paragraph after paragraph of vividly graphic descriptions of the novel’s setting and characters, I describe how the apes in the City Zoo arrogantly form what they call an “intelligence community,” while all of the monkeys get together to encompass the zoo’s fair and balanced news media. 

 

 

Perhaps one of the most graphic descriptions I offer in the novel is of the renegade circus elephant Gus, who confounds the shrieking monkey media when he runs for Animal Zookeeper. Gus has a tangle of orange hair on his head, golden caps on his tusks, and a record of success that makes him very popular with the other animals. But when he runs for Animal Zookeeper, all the outraged monkey journalists whoop and shout and throw dung at everybody—even as Gus triumphs over Balthazar the donkey to become Animal Zookeeper and set about fixing all of the zoo’s problems. Alas, this incredibly graphic tale is a cautionary one, ending in catastrophe, a warning to readers of what might happen if we fail to defend the Constitution of the United States of America and continue to hold it in high regard.

 

 

It was with this idea in mind that I wrote CITY ZOO to be one of the most graphic political allegories anyone will ever read, satirizing everything from the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections to immigration to the rapidly degenerating level of discourse among the news media, trans and COVID-19 hysteria, DEI initiatives, useful idiots, and much more. In graphic detail, my novel CITY ZOO strips away the–

 

 

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(But please read CITY ZOO an unfairy story—the ANIMAL FARM of our time. Now in paperback at Amazon.com or click through cityzoo.us. If we can sell enough copies, we plan to turn the book into a true graphic novel. Thank you indulging me, and thanks to Bleeding Fool for letting me have a little fun on their awesome and truly bookmark-worthy website.)

 

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