married Sarah Lariviere in 2002; they divorced in 2012. In 2010, Rees worked as a civil servant for the United States Census Bureau, a position that revitalized his interest in pencils. During that time, Rees lived in Beacon, New York. Bibliography Get Your War On. Brooklyn: Soft Skull, 2002. . My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable. New York: Riverhead, 2003. . My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable. New York: Riverhead, 2004. . Get Your War On II. New York: Riverhead, 2004. . Get Your War On: The Definitive Account of the War On Terror, 2001–2008. Brooklyn: Soft Skull, 2008. . How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening. Melville House, 2012. . References Notes Interview in The Comics Interpreter vol. 2, #3 Further reading External links MNFTIU – David Rees's site, an initialism for My New Fighting (or Filing) Technique Is Unstoppable Artisanal Pencil Sharpening David Rees on The Huffington Post David Rees interview by Travis Jeppesen Interview with David Rees on Reddit (AMA) 1972 births Living people American cartoonists American webcomic creators HuffPost writers and columnists Oberlin College alumni People from Chapel Hill, North Carolina