Artist’s statement: My family originated in Eastern Europe. Any member who did not emigrate prior to the rise of the Nazism—my maternal grandmother’s parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins—were exterminated in the death camps during World War II. No record of exactly what befell them or where was ever discovered, despite intensive efforts by my grandma.
The collage is composed of a historic photo of a barracks in a death camp in Poland. I superimposed and colored by hand the ghostly coat in the foreground.
Howie Good’s handmade collages have appeared or are forthcoming in Mayday, Sulphur Surrealist Jungle, Defunkt, Drunk Monkeys, Blue as Orange, decomp, The Offshoot, Mad Swirl, Mercurius Magazine, Scapegoat Review, Wrongdoing, Willows Wept Review, Writers Resist, Kitchen Table Quarterly, and Otoliths.
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Artist’s statement: I watch the news, and many faces that pass in the river of news strike me as utterly strange. Some are haunted; some have a childish malice. I’ve felt compelled to capture their essence in pencil, ink, and paint. These images are the first attempts to create a portrait gallery of a bizarre time in our political and cultural history.
IE Sommsin is a writer and visual artist who did too much time in graduate school. He divides the year between two political bubbles, San Francisco and his ancestral woods in Kentucky.
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Chris Vannoy, a San Diego-based poet, believes that art is essential to the advancement of society. As a poet and a visual artist he has strived to release his imagination into the world for its enjoyment.
I’m With Exxon Mobile
By Carl Dimitri
Carl Dimitri, a Providence, Rhode Island-based artist, is committed to drawing one cartoon a day until the Trump era is over. Carl has received fellowships in painting from the Vermont Studio Center and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. He was also elected in 2012 into The Drawing Center in New York City.
A version of this cartoon was previously published in Entropy magazine.