Final Cover Sketch

"A Secret Mercy" has now become "Take What You Can Carry" and the cover sketch and design is approved. I like the new title much better. It will hit the stores next winter.

WW3 30th press

Today is the last day of the Exit show but it is slated to travel. Thanks to the staff at Exit Art and Peter, Seth and Susan for all the hard work putting together the show. Here's a collection of the press:

New York Times

East Village Local

Comixology

Steve Brodner

Drawger

New York Going

Freedom Funnies

Six Chix (1st article) (2nd article)

Imprint

Drawger

Performance at Exit Art

I'll be showing slides and speaking at
Exit Art
475 Tenth Ave
New York, NY 10018
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 / 7-9pm
Milk Not Jails
With artist talks by Sabrina Jones and Kevin Pyle
Milk Not Jails is a consumer campaign to mobilize New York residents to support the dairy industry and the long-term sustainability of the rural economy. It advocates for criminal justice and agriculture policy reform to bring about positive economic growth. (LINK)

NYTimes Graphic Radicals Review

Holland Cotter at the New York Times gave the WW3 show at Exit a fine write up. Here's an excerpt: "Best of all, World War 3 Illustrated, like Exit Art, is still alive and well. A new issue, called “The Food Chain,” is out. As always it mixes newcomers and veterans, emphasizes content over style (but has plenty of style), keeps that content accessible and critical, and pays its printers and distributors but no one else.

If it had nothing more than that kind of dedication to recommend it, it would be invaluable. But it has much, much more."
(LINK)

"A Secret Mercy" to be in color

My next book, "A Secret Mercy," is turned in to Henry Holt for Young Readers. It has two interlocking stories that take place in two different time periods. I'm excited that they decided to go for color so I could use it as a storytelling tool.

WW3 illustrated Thirty Years Old!

And there's an exhibit and celebration:
opening: Tuesday, December 7th, 7 to 9pm
Exit Art
475 10th Avenue
New York, NY
(link)

WW3 in B.C.

Fellow WW3 co-editors Seth Tobocman and Rebecca Migdal and I will be in Victoria, B.C. this weekend doing performances and panels in conjunction with "Graphic Radicals" at Legacy Gallery at UVic.

Graphic Radicals is a themed presentation of the work of World War 3 Illustrated, a New York artist collective, from the 1980s to the present day. The art confronts issues such as anti-war protests, squatting in New York, the tragedies of 9-11, racism, prisons and anarchism. “This is some of the most hard-hitting, socially-engaged art of the last thirty years,’ explains Allan Antliff, Canada Research Chair in Modern Art at UVic. “Simply put, this artists’ collective took illustration to a new level by confronting the important issues of our time in uncompromising terms.

Graphic Radicals includes dozens of works in the form of posters, graphic illustrations, paintings, banners and other media.
(LINK)