Presidential flipbook: combine rhetoric, appearance and icons to make presidential chimeras

Flipbook masters Idiots' Books have created a "Build Your Own President" site that lets you use flipbook mechanics to produce political chimeras consisting of the appearance, icons and rhetoric of any three politicians, seamlessly joined with eerie precision. Idiots' Books are the same people who made the great Makers Tiles in honor of my novel of the same name.

If you enjoy flipping your own presidential hybrids, there's a dead tree edition to be had for $12.

Idiots' Books | Build Your Own President (Thanks, Matthew!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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I like combining Obama and Palin.
- N M
  
  Yeah, that’s definitely the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen.
- alephxero
  
  Terrifying.
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My concern is that all the presidents you build sound like Republican hopefuls.

Is the political situation in the US truly that hopeless?
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Ar.
- digi_owl
  
  The slow boiling of politics works wonders…