January 2012
2 posts
“I don’t even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely...”
– George Grosz, dadaist & cartoonist
“You are waiting for my words. You know me well, and know I cannot remain silent...”
– Miguel de Unamuno, from his public quarrel with the Nationalist general Millan Astray at the University of Salamanca, Spain 1936
August 2011
2 posts
1 tag
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...
July 2011
1 post
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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,...
June 2011
2 posts
2 tags
“If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship...”
– Joe Hill
February 2011
1 post
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July 2010
1 post
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...
June 2010
2 posts
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.
Dirk #1 online
All right. Here’s the one that started it all:
Dirk#1: Dirk goes for broke
Get out your handsaws and crowbars ya’ll.
May 2010
4 posts
“Then I’ll be all around in the dark - I’ll be...”
– Tom Joad, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Dirk #2 & #3 added to archives
Just added a couple of old Dirk’s online. So here we are:
Dirk #2 - Boxed in
Dirk #3 - Dirk goes to prison
Man he’s really gonna have to pay those BP execs a visit.
“You think you’re God Almighty, but you know what you are? You’re a...”
– Marlon Brando (as Terry Malloy), On the Waterfront (1954)
Dirk #4 comic going to press
I just finished my latest Dirk cartoon which deals with bankers and foreclosures. It’s my first full color comic strip (aside from some one panels that I did for the Michigan Citizen website many moons ago). It will be published in the next issue of Critical Moment, a free activist paper published here in Detroit. CM is publishing quite a few copies to coincide with the U.S. Social Forum and...