Seth Tobocman

Understanding the crash

In stark black and white , Seth Tobocman draws out resitance to conformist, competition-obsessed culture. You Don't Have To... emerges from the anarchist and squatter movement of the Lower East side, as documented in World War 3 and the limited first edition from Pressure Drop Press. Features a 17 page b/w and f/c spread on the award winning journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, currently on death row in Pennsylvania. A photo essay on how Seth's art has been used on the streets and in the struggles of downtown NYC will lend perspective on this influential activist/artist.

You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive

Survival Without Rent

Michael Steven Smith

He made a career of defending extreme acts against extreme power.

A Graphic Biography of Radical Attorney Leonard Weinglass

Len, a Lawyer in History

New York City's Lower East Side was a well-known landing strip for recent arrivals in the United States. For more than a century it was home to thriving communities of artists, radicals and working class families. In a gripping series of fictionalized accounts, political artist Seth Tobocman illustrates the L.E.S. of the late 80s an era of homelessness and gentrification, ACT UP and the AIDS epidemic, tent cities and squatted apartment buildings, street brawls between punks and skinheads and, above all, an emerging gulf between rich and poor. "

War in the Neighborhood

New York, 1989 - a decade of activism around the urban housing crisis is coming to a close. Legendary graphic artist Seth Tobocman documents it in his bold comic style. In a collection of his most enduring images, Tobocman covers everything from the imprisonment of Mumia Abu-Jamal; the rise of Reaganomics; the struggle against apartheid and the Miami race riots. It is both a candid portrait of a decade of struggle to preserve basic human rights and a critical historical artefact.

The story of today's social struggles, told through images.

An Allegory Without Words

The Face of Struggle

Peter Kuper

Ethan Heitner

For their 51st edition, World War 3 Illustrated asked their artists and writers to bring heart and vision to two questions: What do we really care about? and What are we fighting for? Their comic strips and panels are cheerful or angry, prescriptive, or absurd. There is both humor and strong imagery. Some artists bring a roadmap for change. Others simply tell us what their values are, who their loved ones are, what they are clinging to and holding on to in the struggle to exist. Some lean into the mysterious, the poetic, the unfinished, or the unknowable. This book is really all about the "how" and the "why." Artists tell us about their personal experience of activism, whether it’s direct action, voting, or just talking with people.

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