Utne Reader Human Rights

Just got my copy of The Utne Reader, with several illustrations I did for a group of articles about human rights. This was one of those rare times when my sketches were pretty much my finals...and it felt great to to see the un-fussed and un-fidgeted art on the printed page. You know how you often think that your sketches are fresher and more vital than the final art? Well, this time I was given the freedom to let the original vision stand on its own, thanks to AD Stephanie Glaros.

Obama haunted by Bush/Cheney human rights violations

Barbed Wire flag -- CIA prisons and xenophobia

Islamophobia in the US

US image tarnished by our human rights violations

Animation: SOPA Cleans Up the Internet for Hollywood

Congress will resume the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) hearings in January. This legislation, backed by Hollywood, the music industry and the US Chamber of Commerce, would give them the power to disappear websites they don't like, without due process, effectively giving them the ability to censor the web. Welcome to the future, wherein US megacorporations and their purchased politicians have the power to destroy the world wide web...

Link to cartoon on YouTube

Read more and take action at the Electronic Frontier Foundation here

Sign the Whitehouse.gov petition, here, asking President Obama to veto the bill.

Guru Gingrich

Mother Jones is showing a round-up of all the Newt Gingrich stories they've done over the past 27 years, along with the illustrations that accompanied them, and my Newt Guru is the Grand Finale -- an illustration I particularly like.

Link to the animation I did of this painting

Animation: The Gingrich Who Stole Christmas

In this week's animation, Newt Gingrich, relishing his role as the current sugarplum dancing in Republican heads, generously bestows on all who will listen his solution for the nation's poorest children. 

Watch it on Mother Jones
Written, animated and acted by me. Music by Kevin MacLeod