DANGEROUS DIRK

Comics and Politics from Wharf Rats Local #365

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Then I’ll be all around in the dark - I’ll be ever’where—wherever you look. Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there… I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’—I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry and they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folk eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build—why, I’ll be there.
Tom Joad, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

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You think you’re God Almighty, but you know what you are? You’re a cheap, lousy, dirty, stinkin’ mug! And I’m glad what I done to you, ya hear that? I’m glad what I done!
Marlon Brando (as Terry Malloy), On the Waterfront (1954)

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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 Allied Media Conference which will be taking place in the Motor City this June. The issue should be out soon. More info when I get it.