“President Bill is more a satire of Bill Brown’s kind than George Bush’s. And therein lies its freshness and brilliance. Brown’s deadpan text and smartly observed drawings display an affectionately ironic vision of the politics and behavior of his friends and neighbors in the seat of power. The woodcutty-appearing cartoons are executed on scratchboard in perfect comic representation of middle-class bohemia: sneakers, sandals, sweatshirts, jeans, beer and more beer, toddlers and infants and moms’ bellies swollen with the promise of another population explosion. Bemused, confused, smug and well- meaning, messy and environmentally passionate, Brown’s folk prove to be nearly as dangerous but infinitely more human than Bush’s or Reagan’s folk before them.”

—Jules Feiffer, from the Foreword

“President Bill is the progressive version of Everyman. He’s counterculture, a vegetarian, likes to brew his own beer. And, as you might expect, he has some rather innovative ways of governing.”

—National Public Radio, “All Things Considered”

“Since June 1988 . . . the administration that Washingtonians have been looking at and laughing at belongs to President Bill,” says Diane Rehm of WAMU public radio in Washington. William Brown’s biting, satirical panel cartoon, President Bill, targets contemporary political and social themes with unblinking criticism and solves them in outrageous ways. Appearing in the Washington, D.C. City Paper, Chicago Reader, Atlanta Creative Loafing, and San Diego Reader,
President Bill attracts a loyal following.