2020 was hard. 2020 hindsight is easy! We don't have to tell you what it was like. You were there. The pandemic, unemployment, civil unrest. Trump. More Trump. Maybe a little laughter could help. What have you got to lose?! From Emmy® Award winner Ron Hauge (The Simpsons, Seinfeld, The Ren & Stimpy Show, In Living Color) comes 'The # * %, a retrospective collection of single-panel, full-color cartoons selected from his popular Instagram account. The year 2020 will not soon be forgotten, but perhaps we can gain a little perspective with these biting, often outrageous illustrations lampooning Trump, the pandemic, social unrest, the whole mess. Praise for “The #*% “Years from now, this book will be taught in history class. It’s that important. It’s also funny as #>&%!” - Larry Doyle, Thurber Prize winning author “If you want to understand what's gone on — what's gone wrong — during the Trump Years, there is no better guide than Ron Hauge. Always cheerful, weirdly sweet, this book is a sardonic, bug-eyed, candy-colored map of Hell, American Style.” - Michael Gerber, Publisher; The American Bystander “Ron Hauge combines a sophisticated comic mind with a broad burlesque style to create a series of unerring, mind-bendingly original political cartoons. And, in this writer’s humble opinion, his drawings rank with the best American graphic art.” - Stan Mack “Ron Hauge's ‘The #*%Barry Blitt “Hauge's high-pitch electric-colored drawings land on their subjects like beautiful wrecking balls; heart-attacks of laughter, wit, spot-on observation and political activism in the hands of wicked-funny artist.” - Jerry Saltz, Senior Art Critic; New York Magazine “Ron Hauge’s new book is a laugh-out-loud hilarious work of epic comic genius, a scathing dissection and a healing balm for the plague of the Trump presidency, culminating in its bumbling exacerbation of Covid. Hauge’s unsparing pen pierces every fes