“I don’t even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.”
“I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.”
“I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.”
DANGEROUS DIRK
Comics and Politics from Wharf Rats Local #365
You are waiting for my words. You know me well, and know I cannot remain silent for long. Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
Dirk’s Picks: “Last Words” by George Carlin
I remember sitting on the floor of my friend Mario’s place in the early 90’s, as he put George Carlin’s Class Clown LP on the record player, and losing myself to laughter as Carlin ran through his “7 words you can’t say on television” bit. Recently, I picked up his Last Words memoirs, expecting myself to howl through several hundred pages of diafragm-rattling material. Surprisingly, although there were many hilarious sections in the book, I found myself looking into a sincere and thoughtful work of self-reflection by one of the most outrageously insightful and incisive social critics in recent memory.
Dirk’s Picks: Rap News with Robert Foster (The Juice Media) presents Osamacide.
Austerity Pleasures
Here’s the article that goes with the latest Dirk cartoon:
The recent news that Michigan’s economy is bringing in higher than expected tax revenues must strike Governor Snyder’s true believers as a little surprising. Ever since the last piece of confetti fell at his inauguration, the governor has been hitting the state’s airwaves like some tweaked-out late night infomercial host, raging on about the perils of a cataclysmic budget crisis…
http://critical-moment.org/2011/07/05/austerity-pleasures-a-look-at-the-snyder-budget-crisis/
Dirk’s back with special guest Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder. Keep your eyes out on critical-moment.org for the accompanying article, Snyder’s Austerity Pleasures, for info on hizzoner’s retch-inducing budget cuts.
If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
Hey, gang. I know we haven’t seen our favorite wharf rat in a while, but he’s been busy, honest. Here take a look at what he’s been up to… This work will be published in the forthcoming issue of Critical Moment. It’s a great issue dealing with development and efforts to reshape Detroit. We’re having a small release party tomorrow (Feb 10) at Cafe con Leche in Detroit from 6-8 pm. Stop by if your in the neighborhood.
Dirk at USSF
I ran into catoonists Seth Tobocman and Ethan Heitner at the US Social Forum in Detroit. Seth helps put out a great magazine of comics that’s been publishing since the 80’s called World War 3 Illustrated. He’s got a new graphic novel called “Understanding the Crash” that’s available on his website. Also got a chance to share my comics from people from all around the US. It was a fun and interesting, but exhausting week.
Dirk #4 on the shelves
Hey everybody, Dirk #4 is on the shelves. Take a gander at the online version.
Also, i just found an interesting Sci-Fi comic series online: http://spacetrawler.com.
