“Ayn Rand” , “Çöküş”, “Bencillik Çağı” Bu üç ana bölümden oluşan çizgi roman temelde günümüz neoliberal ekonomik ve politik sisteminin orijininden başlayarak önce “bireycilik vs altruizm” tartışmasının ideolojik ve felsefik yaklaşımını (Ayn Rand ve yaşamı,kitapları üzerinden) daha sonra ise doğrudan ekonominin içinden örneklerle 2008 Mortgage kriziyle çöküşe doğru giden kısmı ve son bölümünde ise 60’ların hippi çiçek çocuklarından muhafazakar sağın yükselişine nasıl adım adım geçildiği anlatılıyor.

Çöküş kısmında ekonomist en basite indirgemeye çalıştığı anlatımıyla türev ürünleri ve bu türev ürünlerin sigortalanmasının, türev ürünlerin kredi notlandırmasında sahteciliğin daha sonrasında bankacılıktaki büyük yozlaşmayla birleşerek ekonomik krize nasıl adım adım ilerlendiğini anlatmış. Bunda 1987’de Federal Rezerv sisteminin başına gelen Alan Greenspan’ın rolünün büyük olduğunu görüyoruz. Ayn Rand felsefesini benimseyen Greenspan devletin tüm denetlemelerinin finans piyasalarından çekilmesini, bireyciliği desteklemiş ve vergilendirmelere karşı çıkmış. Genel olarak sağ muhafazakarların benimsediği “orantılılık” ilkesi her yerde karşımıza çıkıyor, yani “eşitlik” ilkesine tam bir karşı çıkış. Bu da temel hakların, sendikaların, sosyal yardımların alaşağı edilmesi anlamına geliyor. ABD’nin Tea Party’si ( 1773 Boston’dan adını alan ), İngiltere’nin UKIP’i ve buna benzer sağ muhafazakar partilerin göçmen, işsiz, engelli, siyah ayrımcılığı söylemleriyle halkın öfkesini bu yöne çekip, bilincinde olmadan hissedarların(vergi muafiyeti, sosyal yardım ödeneklerinin kısılması vb uygulamalarla) temel hakların önünü kesmelerine neden olduğunu görüyoruz.

10 üzerinden 10 vediğim bir ekonomi çizgi romanı. En az iki kere daha okuyacağımı düşünüyorum ve mutlaka herkese okumasını tavsiye ediyorum. Şu anki global ekonomik sistemin örneklerle ve çok iyi bir sistemle anlatılmış bir şekli. Yazarı ve çizerini tebrik ediyorum.

Cunningham’s crisp, clever graphics, symbols and examples demystify the complexities of credit default swaps, hedge funds and other devices behind the crash. He challenges the way we think and resist change, even when the alternative is disaster... Supercrash is a hugely readable, revelatory condemnation and call to arms.

For an entry level primer [on economics] may I suggest Darryl Cunningham's Supercrash? The subtitle How to Hijack the Global Economy gives a pretty clear indication of where Cunningham is coming from and if you want to get a grasp on what derivatives, Collaterised Debt Obligations and toxic assets are, this is a good place to start.... But Supercrash does much more than this. The obvious comparison, it seems to me, is with documentary film-maker Adam Curtis whose films explore the history of ideas and systems. Where Curtis uses found film to visualise his argument, Cunningham works with visual metaphors and symbolism. But the result is similar: a provocative, thoughtful, visual essay that tackles the language of ideas. Supercrash will leave you better informed and, more than that, it will leave you angry.

Just finished reading Supercrash by Darryl Cunningham which I now urge you all to buy. There is so much to disagree with and rage about in this book, but the picture it paints of just where we are now is vital and clearer than anything I've found in other media. Maybe it's comics, maybe it's Darryl's almost children's book clarity that does it. The book is in three parts - first is the story of Ayn Rand, whose vision of selfishness as the model for society informs so much of capitalist thinking today, the second part deals with the financial crash of 2008, and how Rand's pupil Alan Greenspan oversaw the sorry mess. The last section reaches out in every direction searching for answers to why capitalism thrives and how we can end up with governments that punish the poor and sick in order to help the rich get richer. The image of democracy being finally destroyed by capitalism before our eyes is pretty stark. Hope that isn't a spoiler for anyone. Buy this book.

Cunningham’s pithy prose and funky art tell a complex, important tale. He connects the dots from Ayn Rand to Alan Greenspan to the mess we’re in today, tackling tangled subjects with clarity and zing.

This is a truly outstanding piece of work, illustrated so intelligently as ever in [Darryl's] wonderful no nonsense informative style, which hits new heights of in terms of detail and its ability to disseminate such complex information so simply, and it deserves to win awards and gain the highest praise and plaudits from not just within the comics industry but also the wider world... He’s probably ensured he’ll never get a mention on the Queen’s birthday honours list now, but he’s certainly deserving of it in my book for the public service he’s done everyone in writing this work. Bravo Darryl, I salute you.

A remarkable read, visually clever and inventive... [an] eminently readable work on an important subject. I don’t think it is hyperbole to say Darryl has, for me, become to this explanatory branch of reportage comics what Sacco has become to war zone reportage, in that he shows all sides of a problem in a way the reader can understand, while never losing track of the human aspect in the complex issues involved, and all delivered in a way that only the comics medium can do... Darryl’s unique comic art takes the reader easily into the heart of complex matters that have important influences on everyone’s lives and makes it understandable visually as well as with words.

Cunningham’s art... has clean lines and a continuity that is often graceful, charming and endearing. He speaks with quiet authority on his subjects, but is careful to cite a whole range of sources and research papers.