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Two New Posters From WW3I Artists!
The beautiful people and artists at the Justseeds Celebrate People’s History project have two new posters for sale on their site, from WW3I artists Sue Simensky Bietila and Sabrina Jones. Sue’s print comes from her illustrated narrative of the Wisconsin Uprising, which you can find in World War 3 Illustrated #42: Tahrir. Sabrina’s poster celebrates Jane Jacobs, who was also the subject of Sabrina’s comic “Little House in the Big City” which you can buy in World War 3 Illustrated #40: What We Want, or in America’s Best Comics of 2011.
WW3I @ MoCCA-NY This Weekend 4/28-29!
World War 3 Illustrated artists Peter Kuper and Kevin Pyle will be at table I1, and Rebecca Migdal will be at table D3. WW3I artists will also be participating in the following panels on Sunday:
SUNDAY
11:15 Graphic Novels for Young Adults
Betsy Bird (NYPL), Raina Telgemeier, Kevin Pyle, MK Reed, Derek Kirk Kim
The New York Public Library’s Betsy Bird talks to some of the brightest talents in one of comics’ fastest growing demographics.
2:15 Memoir
Calvin Reid, Derf, Peter Kuper, Jennifer Hayden, Mike Dawson
Makers of autobio comics discuss filter their lives through sequential art.
“The Emerging Field of Comic Journalism” @ Union Docs, BK – Sat. 4/21
*Image: Josh Neufeld, “A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge.”
Reportage in Balloons: The Emerging Field of Comic Journalism
Saturday, April 21th at 7:30pm. $9 suggested donation.
Comic journalists Josh Neufeld, Seth Tobocman, Matt Bors and NPR host/media analyst Brooke Gladstone in attendance for discussion lead by comic critic and curator Bill Kartalopoulos.
WW3I @ Anarchist Book Fair NYC 2012
This weekend, April 13 and 14, World War 3 Illustrated will be at the New York Anarchist Book Fair! In addition to tabling all day Saturday, we will be doing a live reading of recent comics by WW3I artists and conducting a workshop on how to make your own comics, targeted toward young activists! Head down to Judson Church, 55 Washington Sq. South, NYC to meet WW3I and come to our workshops (and pick up a copy of this awesome poster by Seth Tobocman).
WW3 Illustrated: Liberation from Cairo to Occupy Wall St.
Cartoonists from the magazine World War 3 Illustrated will present a slide show of their of most recent comics dealing with the uprisings of the last year, accompanied by dramatic readings and music by Eric Blitz and Andy Laties. Featured artists include Seth Tobocman, Carlo Quispe and Ethan Heitner.
Sat 4:15-5:45pm, Judson Church
WW3I Youth Activist Comics Workshop
An upcoming issue of WW3I, the longest-running politic comic in the US, will focus on “Youth Activism.” So much of the radical activism right now is led by youth, who are taking huge risks, and creating new forms of activism with other youth and adult allies. The broad international definition of youth often goes up to age 35. We’re recruiting and working with youth and youth-allied artists, cartoonists, and writers to find people who want to contribute to the Youth Activist issue of WW3I. We want art and writing by youth, and also material by adult allies about youth activism.
Sun 2:30-4pm Judson Church
Seth Tobocman Rocks Montreal Tonight at Howl Fest
featuring New York City street artist Seth Tobocman, writer Eric Laursen!
Friday, April, 6, 2012
doors 8pm
La Plante, 185 Van Horne
$10 in advance | $12 at door
(just east of Parc Ave, bus #80)
Montreal, Quebec
Join us for the fifth edition of Howl! (facebook event) featuring NYC artist Seth Tobocman for the Montreal launch of “Understanding the Crash”, co-authored with activist/writer Eric Laursen.
Tobocman’s multimedia presentaton will be accompanied by The Revolution’s House Band featuring Eric Blitz and Andy Laties. Also joining this concert is Montreal ensemble Marathon!
Published by Soft Skull Press in NYC, Understanding the Crash is a striking graphic book that explores a key contemporary question, what has happened to the world economy? With the kind of striking precision that only graphic nonfiction can provide, the book explores just how we got into this mess—and how we can get out of it.
For more information visit the Howl Arts Blog.
Comic New York
WW3′s Peter Kuper and Sabrina Jones will join an all-star gathering of comics professionals for the Comic New York symposium. The two day event brings together creators and academics to discuss the intertwined histories of American comics and the town where they were born: New York City. From the role of New York as breeding ground for generations of comics talent to the political, periodical, and alternative nature of the comics themselves, the best NYC has to offer celebrates this unique medium.
Review of WW3I #42: “Drawing In The Streets”
Christopher Arnott gives us love over at scribblers.us:
You could say World War 3 #42 Illustrated missed a major opportunity in being released at the peak of the Occupy movement and not having been able to comment on it. But that’s always been the wonder and grace of this magazine—it shows us, through conscientious and time-consuming assemblages of text and art, that public political demonstrations have lasting impact, and waiting a year to read about them isn’t silly. It’s other virtue is showing us some of the less obvious uprisings around the world, the ones that eluded the attention of mainstream media. Timeliness is a minor factor here. World War 3 Illustrated is always active.
Be sure to read the whole review at his site, and then head to your local independent book store to pick up your copy!
Report On the Arab Comics Scene: Sharjah Book Fest
Anna Mud has a fascinating report from the recent Sharjah Book Festival on the state of the Arab comics scene, including conversations with and art from WW3I contributors Magdy El Shafee and Ganzeer and some people we hope to have in future issues like Nidal Alkhairy and Barrack Rima (stay tuned, true believers!).
There is in fact a remarkable flourishing of wonderfully sophisticated work—political and quotidian, poetic and playful—from Samandal in Beirut to Tok Tok in Cairo and beyond. This spring the Outreach Center will publish Muktatafaht, a comics collection showcasing the work of thirteen artists from Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and the Palestinian territories.
Check out her full report here.
“Artists are members of a neighborhood, and of the larger world.”
Anton Van Dalen, one of the original contributors to World War 3 Illustrated and someone I have heard Seth Tobocman cite repeatedly as a major influence on his own work, sent an email in response to our recent discovery that the Museum of Modern Art here in NYC has put some of its collection of back issues of World War 3 Illustrated on display as part of their New York contemporary arts gallery. The comics on display are open to some of Van Dalen’s drawings.
Here is the story he tells behind those drawings, and muses on the place of art, commerce, and community:
