NYC Anarchist Book Fair 2010
World War 3 Illustrated: Art and Politics
17 April 2010
Judson Assembly Hall

World War 3 Illustrated is North America's longest running political comic book. Founded in 1979-1980, WW3 is celebrating our 30th year and our 40th issue.

While there is no set ideology to WW3, the magazine has often been a platform for anarchist views and played a pivotal role in the Lower East Side squatters movement of the 1980s and '90s. More recently we have provided props and street theater to the anti-war movement, worked with Common Ground in New Orleans, and are now starting work around foreclosures.

We are still independently published and collectively run. The magazine is organized by an editorial board of about 10 editors who are also artists for the magazine. Artists are eligible to join the editorial board on a sweat equity basis. Neither editors nor contributors are paid. All funds generated by sales go toward publishing future issues. This structure has allowed WW3 to be an independent but also stable and consistent voice in radical politics.

World War 3 Illustrated cartoonists will show slides of their work and discuss the intersection of art and politics.

Seth Tobocman was one of the founding editors of the political comic book World War 3 Illustrated in 1980, along with Peter Kuper and Christoff Kolhofer. This magazine challenged the politics and morals of the Reagan-Bush era. Tobocman is the author/illustrator of five graphic books: You Don't Have to Fuck People over to Survive, War in the Neighborhood, Portraits of Israelis and Palestinians, Disaster and Resistance, and Understanding the Crash. His images have been used in posters, pamphlets, murals, graffiti and tattoos by people's movements around the world, from the African National Congress in South Africa to squatters on New York's Lower East Side.

Peter Kuper is a WW3 editor and the author of Diary of Oaxaca and other graphic books.

Fly is a WW3 contributor, squatter, punk musician, and author of Peops, Chronic Riot Spasm and other books.

Mac Mcgill is a frequent contributor to World War 3 Illustrated and other
publications such as...Progressive Magazine, Tikkun Magazine, Seven
Stories Press (Mumia Abu-Jamal "All Things Censored"), The Source, The
Quotable Rebel, Madburger and Warburger Magazine (Slovenia), HighTimes
Magazine and numerous other publications...

Mac has exhibited and performed slideshow presentations of his work at BD
Amadora (Portugal), Babel Festival (Athens, Greece) HUI9 Underground
Festival (Milano, Italy), Forte Presentino (Roma,Italy),School of Visual
Arts (NYC),San Francisco Art Academy, Theater for the New City and
ABCnoRIO (NYC)....

Mac is currently working on a wordless graphic novel about Hurricane
Katrina...called..."Song for Katrina"

Mac has been a Squatter on New York City Lower East Side and is a Counsler
for homeless youth at StreetWorks.

Mac can be contacted at....Mac@stealthisemail.com

Also with Ethan Heitner.


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