The Pain – When Will It End?

The Pain – When Will It End? is a cartoon drawn by Tim Kreider from 1994 until June 8, 2009. It was self-published until it began running weekly in the Baltimore City Paper in 1997. 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.
Many of Kreider's comics during the 2000s addressed issues in Politics of [the United States|American politics] from a point of view harshly critical of the Presidency of [George W. Bush]. He is among the artists featured in Attitude 2: The New Subversive Alternative Cartoonists, edited by Ted Rall. In 2006, The [New York Times] printed his defense of Pluto as a planet before and after its demotion to dwarf planet.
Anthology books include The Pain – When Will It End?, Why Do They Kill Me? and Twilight of the Assholes: Cartoons & Essays 2005–2009 . A limited edition collection, Fuck Them All, was published in September 2004 and a collection of essays and cartoons, We Learn Nothing, in 2012.