Introduction to Deadly Delusions #5

Abstract

Barry Mauer began the comic series Deadly Delusions in 2013 in response to the increasingly extreme and dangerous right-wing propaganda he had observed over the past several decades. His aim for the project has been to combine scholarship, maximal rhetorical force, and a punk do-it-yourself aesthetic. Deadly Delusions shifts away from debates about whether the media is biased or if it is fair to both sides. Rather, it asks whether the media is spreading mass delusion and pushing eliminationist policies.