Amongst the Liberal Elite: The Road Trip Exploring Societal Inequities Solidified by Trump (RESIST) - Hardcover

Elly Lonon, a member of the Liberal Elite herself, is still recovering from growing up in a red state. Born and raised in North Carolina, she moved to Manhattan for graduate school and to pursue a career in the music business. Weary from consistent marginalization by the patriarchy, she left both the industry and NYC, opting to work for a not-for-profit and moving to the suburbs of Jersey where living near a Superfund site promptly gave her cancer. Once in remission, she read far too many self-help books, learned to embrace life, and abandoned her previous career to write and procreate.

Joan Reilly's work was featured most recently in RESIST!, a comics newspaper edited by Francoise Mouly and Nadja Spiegelman, and in Draw the Line (drawthelinecomics.com), an online anthology of comics promoting political action. Her comics and illustration have been published in many anthologies and literary magazines over the last two decades. She is a co-editor of The Big Feminist BUT: Comics About the IFs, ANDs & BUTs of Feminism, and created illustrations for the "Ask Marilyn" column in Parade magazine for over ten years. For more information, visit joanreilly.com.

"Amongst the Liberal Elite is proof that liberals not only need to keep their senses of humor during this crazy era of American politics, but they need to keep a sense of humor about themselves as well." - Christopher Monks, Managing editor of McSweeney's Internet Tendency and Author of The Ultimate Game Guide to Your Life

"Elly and Joan have performed a spectacular magic trick with this book - they've reached into our heads and pulled out our collective ids, in all their self-centered, inadequate, well-meaning, earnest, BPA-free glory, given them devastatingly accurate haircuts, and named them Alex and Michael. Alex and Michael are here to provoke, to question, to make you roll your eyes so deep in your head you see your brain stem - but also to chuckle in recognition, because really, we've all got at least a little Alex and Michael in us. Elly and Joan's sharply observed, witty, generous, self-mocking epic is a gift for anyone who's ever taken a journey from the frying-pan of their own head to the oven of our burning world."  - Emily Flake, cartoonist for The New Yorker and author of Mama Tried

"Amongst the Liberal Elite is the book everyone with outrage fatigue (and a sense of humor) needs." - Jen Mann, New York Times Best Selling author of People I Want to Punch in the Throat.

"Anyone who's ever thought the title might apply to them will laugh, while also resolving not to be such a cliché in the future." - Ed Park, the New York Times Book Review