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'This Land Is My Land' Paints Sometimes Wacky Human Nature In Bright Colors

Full of playful experiments with composition, and seemingly endless variations on common themes, Andy Warner and Sofie Louise Dam treat self-made "utopias" with unflappable cheer.
<em>This Land is My Land: A Graphic History of Big Dreams, Micronations, and Other Self-Made States</em>, by Andrew Warner and Sofie Louise Dam

Remember Loompanics? It was that dicey little press skulking on the cultural fringes from the 1970s through the mid-2000s.

Even now there's something charming about Loompanics' vast list of books on self-reliance (the same charm, presumably, that attracts viewers to shows like ). Who, after all, hasn't occasionally contemplated pulling up stakes and heading off the grid? Loompanics was there to help. Its 2003 catalog, still findable on the Internet Archive, included books likeand Best of all were two titles on the ultimate act of societal defiance: and (if you weren't sure where to do this) .

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