Don’t miss the ‘I Am The Law’ signing tour
10th February 2023
I Am The Law is the new non-fiction paperback from Rebellion taking 45 years of Britain’s most famous comic book character and blending them with radical theories on policing and politics to demonstrate how Judge Dredd warned us about the chilling endgame of today’s ‘law and order’ politics.
Author Michael Molcher is embarking on a signing tour over the coming months, with the official launch of the book taking place at Gosh Comics on Saturday 11 February at 1pm with Molcher and cover artist Pye Parr.
Check out the signing and talk dates below and be sure to grab your copy of I Am The Law.
11 February — Gosh Comics, London
17 February — OK Comics, Leeds
23 February — The Cartoon Museum, London (sold out)
25 February —Forbidden Planet, Birmingham
28 February — Bookhaus, Bristol (talk with Rob Williams)
2 March — Lighthouse Books, Edinburgh (talk)
4 March — Forbidden Planet International, Glasgow
11 March — Forbidden Planet, Newcastle CANCELLED
27 April — Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford (talk)
Judge, jury and executioner, Judge Dredd is the brutal comic book cop policing the chaotic future urban jungle of Mega-City One, created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra and launching in the pages of 2000 AD in 1977.
But what began as a sci-fi action comic quickly evolved into a searing satire on hardline, militarised policing and ‘law and order’ politics, its endless inventiveness and ironic humour acting as a prophetic warning about our world today – and with important lessons for our future.
Blending comic book history with contemporary radical theories on policing, I Am The Law by writer and comics critic Michael Molcher takes key Dredd stories from the last 45 years and demonstrates how they provide a unique wake up call about our gradual, and not so gradual, slide towards authoritarian policing.
From the politicisation of policing to ‘zero tolerance’, from violent suppression of protest to the rise of the surveillance state, I Am The Law examines how a comic book warned us about the chilling endgame of today’s ‘law and order’ politics.
The paperback of I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future is out on 23 February 2023 and is available to pre-order now!
