Hillary Clinton would rather not be reminded of the more colorful parts of her life. But there’s likely to be more than a few blushes after her political and personal life was turned into a comic book.
‘Political Power: Hillary Rodham Clinton’ features 32-pages of Clinton’s ups and downs turned into a cartoon. It centres on Clinton’s contentious 2008 presidential run against then Senator Barack Obama, the aftermath and how she became the US secretary of state.
The comic book also contains frames depicting President Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky and allegations that he enjoyed the company of other women on his business partner Ron Burkle’s custom-converted Boeing 757. The comic details young aides referring to the plane as ‘Air F**k One’ instead of its traditional title of Air Force One. The illustrations – penned by Bluewater Productions – are a sequel to a previous Clinton comic that focused on her early life. “We delve into how her decision not to run in 2004 helped make Barack Obama a star, how she took him under her wing and how their battle was more personal than many realise. We also look at how close she came to saying ‘no’’ to the position of secretary of state and what changed her mind. I
t’s a fascinating story,” writer Jerome Maida told. Maida added that artist Daniel Fitz’s depictions of Bill Clinton were not necessarily attacking the 42nd president. “That’s just the way it came across,” he said.
“There were about three pages I was going to use to show how Bill Clinton felt he was unfairly characterized, especially in South Carolina but we were short of space.” Maida said not all of Clinton’s quotes in the book are hers – some are from YouTube, books, and other people’s accounts.
