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Teaches Illustration and the history of Graphic Design at Kutztown University of PA.
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Kevin McCloskey
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Mr. Fish Comes Knocking
“Editorial cartooning has never had a Mozart, much less a Bob Dylan, although there have always been a shitload of Donovans in the profession.” -Mr. Fish Mr. Fish isn’t his…
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Evil Prints Bootcamp
Tom Huck, tattooed prince of the outlaw print movement, calls his studio Evil Prints. It’s in a gritty industrial stretch of St. Louis, Mo. Once a year he runs Evil Bootcamp. The cost? –$666.
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Peter Kuper’s Oaxaca Diary
“I wasn’t looking for trouble. On the contrary, I was hoping for some escape. Escape from the United States under Bush’s administration, escape from the consumer culture and the ceaseless barrage of depressing news stories.” – from Peter Kuper’s Oaxaca Diary.
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Mexico 2010 and an Update on ASARO of Oaxaca
In 2009, Mexico City legalized same-sex marriage and decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use. These social policy shifts are significant since Mexico City is by far the largest city in Latin America.
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G-20: Imperial Stormtroopers Land in Pittsburgh
“As Apache helicopters swoop over our heads and out-of-towner cops eye us suspiciously, and we eye each other suspiciously – I feel that a dark period has been forced upon our city…. ” Daniel McCloskey, Pittsburgh
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Netherland: 1st Obama Book Club Selection
Barack Obama is reading Netherland. I liked the the idea of reading the same book as the president, it was as if I’d joined Obama’s book club.
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Shinzaburo Takeda, A Japanese Master Artist in Mexico
Who taught ASARO, The Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca? Oddly enough, these radical young Mexican artists learned the art of printmaking from a mild-mannered, seventy-five year old Japanese master named Shinzaburo Takeda.
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TGP: A Mexico City Pilgrimage
Muralist David Siqueiros used the famed printmaking studio to stage a commando-style assault on Trotsky’s home. Siqueiros and his men wore fake mustaches, real police uniforms, and carried machine guns as they left the workshop.
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Oaxaca: “Plaza of the Resistance”, Espacio Zapata & the ASARO Artists
At the edge of the tourist’s city, life remains as hard as ever. One morning I watched a woman and her son washing dishes in a communal sink. More than half of the family’s dinnerware consisted of white styrofoam, the sort we throw away.
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On Work and Gratitude: KU Commencement 2008
But then I realized he wasn’t in love with her, he was in AWE of her and what she had done. Here was a child who knew what her job was. She understood her place in the world, and she performed her work with distinction.
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