Why Goodnight Bush?
Erich Origen: First, it’s funny—it fits Steve Martin’s definition of funny because you can’t completely explain why. Gan Golan: It’s also poignant. The book isn’t for children, but it shows how far Bush’s reality is from the reality anyone would want for their children. EO: At the same time, it lets us look at the last eight years through the eyes of a child. To quote a reviewer, “All of the horror and humor this book evokes is conjured with such naked simplicity, it’s hard to imagine a more appropriate historical record for this administration.” GG: We needed something that didn’t just summarize the last eight years, but served as a visual requiem. Goodnight Bush takes the same techniques that Bush used on us, and applies them to him—endless repetition of simple words and images, changing things when we aren’t looking, repeated reassurance that the things we treasure are intact, and repeatedly reducing a complex world into simple black and white. EO: In 2000 a lot of people felt we en
