Political cartoonist and graphic novelist Ted Rall has been tapped to write and draw a 48-page comic book within the pages of New York Times-bestselling inevstigative journalist Greg Palast’s forthcoming Election Games: Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, ComicBook.com has learned exclusively.”We’re overjoyed to be working with Ted again,” Palast told ComicBook.com.”we consider him part of the investigative team, especially as he’s a first rate journalist himself–Read Silk Road to Ruin, if you have any doubt. He told the story of Central Asia long before anyone else cared.”The book will be published by 7 Stories Press later this summer and will focus on the way money influences elections, and the shady tactics used by political parties and special interests to limit their opponents’ right to vote.Rall’s comic portion of the book will thematically tie in with the rest of the book, telling stories centered around Palast’s globetrotting investigative journalism (just yesterday, Palast broke the story that BP hid important details of a 2008 oil spill from American regulators). According to the Palast Office, the plan is to also release the comic as a separate, digital-only release around the time of the book’s release and at a lower price point.
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