{{Short description|Cartoon series drawn by Tim Kreider}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2013}} {{Infobox webcomic| <!-- Part of Wikipedia:WikiProject_Webcomics --> | image = | caption = | author = Tim Kreider | url = {{official URL}} | status = Weekly | began = September 20, 2000 (online) | ended = | genre = Political, social commentary | ratings = }} '''''The Pain – When Will It End?''''' is a cartoon drawn by '''Tim Kreider''' (born February 25, 1967) from 1994 until June 8, 2009 (with sporadic updates through early 2013). It was self-published until it began running weekly in the ''Baltimore City Paper'' in 1997.<ref name=npr>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/06/14/732710354/essayist-breaks-free-from-conventional-relationships-in-because-i-love-you?t=1572894394149|title=Essayist Breaks Free From Conventional Relationships In 'Because I Love You'|author=Dave Davies (reporter)|author-link=Dave Davies (reporter)|date=14 June 2019|accessdate=4 November 2019|website=NPR}}</ref><ref name=book1/> It was later picked up by the ''Jackson Planet Weekly'' and ''The Indy in Bloomington-Normal'', Illinois. Since September 2000, it is also a webcomic.<ref name=book2/><ref name=huffpost>{{cite news|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/busy-trap-tim-kreider_n_1668277|title='Busy Trap' Writer Tim Kreider Talks New Book, Resigning Himself To Ambition|author=Lucas Kavner|date=7 December 2012|accessdate=4 November 2019|newspaper=Huffington Post}}</ref>
Many of Kreider's comics during the 2000s addressed issues in American politics from a point of view harshly critical of the Presidency of George W. Bush.<ref name=huffpost/> He is among the artists featured in ''Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists'', edited by Ted Rall (2004).<ref name=npr/> In 2006, ''The New York Times'' printed his defense of Pluto as a planet before and after its demotion to dwarf planet.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/23/opinion/23kreider.html |title= I ♥ Pluto |last1= Kreider |first1= Tim |date= August 23, 2006 |work= The New York Times |accessdate=April 19, 2013}}</ref><ref name=npr/>
Anthology books include ''The Pain – When Will It End?'' (May 2004),<ref name=book1>{{cite book|title=Pain: When Will It End?| date=June 2004 | author=Tim Kreider | isbn=978-1560975687 | publisher=Fantagraphics Books}}</ref> ''Why Do They Kill Me?'' (May 2005)<ref name=book2>{{cite book|title=Why Do They Kill Me? |url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1560976632/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vamf_taft_p1_i4 | date=May 2005 | author=Tim Kreider | isbn=978-1560976639 | publisher=Fantagraphics Books}}</ref> and ''Twilight of the Assholes: Cartoons & Essays 2005–2009 '' (February 2011).<ref name=book3>{{cite book|title=Twilight of the Assholes (The Chronicles of the Era of Darkness 2005-2009) | date=February 2011 | author=Tim Kreider | isbn=978-1606993989 | publisher=Fantagraphics Books}}</ref> A limited edition collection, ''Fuck Them All'', was published in September 2004 and a collection of essays and cartoons, ''We Learn Nothing'', in 2012.<ref name=huffpost/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{official website}} * [http://timkreider.com/ Tim Kreider's website]
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