The winds of change are blowing; not necessarily in one direction, but moving almost everything not tied down!
Here’s to Peter Kuper, Seth Tobocman and all the wonderful artists who have made World War 3 Illustrated a unique and powerful moment in political art in the US. Started as a reaction to the Reagan years, it has grown and become an important publication of strong and direct art comment . . . for the last 30 years!!!
Some questions for Peter and Seth:
When you see the work altogether like this, what goes through your mind? Do you think of something lost, something gained in the years?
When you are in the business of making pictures that tell stories you are liable to be recognized from time to time for the work you do. When that happens it’s very important to say thanks. In this case I am saying thanks for the highest honor an illustrator can receive: a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators for a piece done in the year just past. The ceremony is on Friday, but I thought I’d put my thanks up here in advance. The piece being so honored is Reservoir Runners, a stand-alone page for The New Yorker.
This was done based on a frosty trip to the track in Central Park, noting the runners in their infinite variety. My great thanks to Chris Curry and Caroline Maihot for their support of this project and others like it.
So here’s the cartoon that is scheduled to appear in tomorrow’s Washington Post Outlook section, p1. Funny, perhaps. But unaware of the firing of Keith Olbermann by Comcast last night. Different drugs, I think are called for. Ones that will help him and us through Palinism and the huge Far Right Wing moves now being … Read more
Gradually the events of this week became about our politics and, in a strange turn, Palin. What was really written on her hand all along? Her lack of moral leadership in the light of tragedy has been especially glaring. As, in retrospect, is her rhetoric. Strangely her gun-toting TV show ended this past weekend. Here’s … Read more
