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Founded in 1979 by Seth Tobocman and Peter Kuper, World War 3 Illustrated is a labour of love run by a collective of artists and political activists working with the unified goal of creating a home for political comics, graphics and stirring personal stories. This full-colour retrospective exhibition is arranged thematically, including housing rights, feminism, environmental issues, religion, police brutality, globalisation and depictions of conflicts from the Middle East to the Midwest. Contributors include Sue Coe, Eric Drooker, Fly, Sandy Jimenez and dozens more.

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World War 3 Illustrated is the real thing. . . . As always it mixes newcomers and veterans, emphasizes content over style (but has plenty of style), keeps that content accessible and critical, and pays its printers and distributors but no one else. If it had nothing more than that kind of dedication to recommend it, it would be invaluable. But it has much, much more. -- New York Times World War 3 Illustrated deserves a place on the shelves of anyone who gives a damn about comics or the political art of the last three decades. --Nicholas Jahr, jewishcurrents.org This is history recorded with a scathing precision. Morality meets hilarity. You find yourself shocked that you're laughing. --Holland Cotter, nytimes.com

World War 3 Illustrated is the real thing.... As always it mixes newcomers and veterans, emphasizes content over style (but has plenty of style), keeps that content accessible and critical, and pays its printers and distributors but no one else. If it had nothing more than that kind of dedication to recommend it, it would be invaluable. But it has much, much more. --New York Times Reading WW3 is both a cleansing and an enraging experience. The graphics remind us how very serious the problems and how vile the institutions that cause them really are. --Utne Reader Powerful graphic art and comic strips from the engaged and enraged pens of urban artists. The subjects include poverty, war, homelessness and drugs; it's a poke in the eye from the dark side of America, tempered by what the artists describe as their 'oppositional optimism.' --Whole Earth Review This is art--not marketing--on the newsstand. It represents the sort of creativity too rarely given an outlet in comics. It's the best and longest running alternative comics anthology around. --Comics Journal The artists of World War 3 have forged a space by turns harsh and exciting, honest and rowdy, boisterous and straight-forward, always powered by the wild and unruly harmonies of love. It's a space where hope and history rhyme, where joy and justice meet. Their voices provoke and soothe and energize. I want to hear more. --Bill Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground

Reading World War 3 Illustrated is both a cleansing and an enraging experience. The graphics remind us how very serious the problems and how vile the institutions that cause them really are. -- Utne Reader Powerful graphic art and comic strips from the engaged and enraged pens of urban artists. The subjects include poverty, war, homelessness, and drugs; it's a poke in the eye from the dark side of America, tempered by what the artists describe as their 'oppositional optimism.' -- Whole Earth Review This is art--not marketing--on the newsstand. It represents the sort of creativity too rarely given an outlet in comics. It's the best and longest running alternative comics anthology around. -- Comics Journal Far ahead of its time, World War 3 paved the way for the more established forms of comics journalism now. . . . this is an indispensable collection of groundbreaking comics. -- Publishers Weekly Organized under categories and including a helpful time line, this book is sure to surprise, enlighten, educate, and inspire. --Henry Chamberlain, comicsgrinder.com Reading through this strikingly designed book, one cannot help but admire those many young, often obscure and struggling, courageous comic book artists and cartoonists who, with unbridled passion, took on unpopular issues, bashed stereotypes, tore down walls and smashed icons. --Bill Berkowitz, truth-out.org World War 3 is a useful subjective historical record. When looked at alongside other key comics documents, it's a window on two generations of alternative cultural and political ideas. --Steve Heller, the Atlantic It is safe to say that nothing, in the annals of comic art, has ever resembled World War 3 Illustrated. Luckily for comic enthusiasts everywhere, this remarkable body of work is now collected in an oversized, chock-full volume. --Paul Buhle, Dissent These comics are individual, raw, exceedingly biased, and will stay with the reader for a long time to come. --Gretchen Wagner, San Francisco Book Review World War 3 Illustrated is the real thing. . . . As always it mixes newcomers and veterans, emphasizes content over style (but has plenty of style), keeps that content accessible and critical, and pays its printers and distributors but no one else. If it had nothing more than that kind of dedication to recommend it, it would be invaluable. But it has much, much more. -- New York Times World War 3 Illustrated deserves a place on the shelves of anyone who gives a damn about comics or the political art of the last three decades. --Nicholas Jahr, jewishcurrents.org This is history recorded with a scathing precision. Morality meets hilarity. You find yourself shocked that you're laughing. --Holland Cotter, nytimes.com

Reading through this strikingly designed book, one cannot help but admire those many young, often obscure and struggling, courageous comic book artists and cartoonists who, with unbridled passion, took on unpopular issues, bashed stereotypes, tore down walls and smashed icons. --Bill Berkowitz, truth-out.org Organized under categories and including a helpful time line, this book is sure to surprise, enlighten, educate, and inspire. --Henry Chamberlain, comicsgrinder.com This is art--not marketing--on the newsstand. It represents the sort of creativity too rarely given an outlet in comics. It's the best and longest running alternative comics anthology around. --Comics Journal World War 3 Illustrated is the real thing. . . . As always it mixes newcomers and veterans, emphasizes content over style (but has plenty of style), keeps that content accessible and critical, and pays its printers and distributors but no one else. If it had nothing more than that kind of dedication to recommend it, it would be invaluable. But it has much, much more. --New York Times World War 3 is a useful subjective historical record. When looked at alongside other key comics documents, it's a window on two generations of alternative cultural and political ideas. --Steve Heller, the Atlantic Far ahead of its time, World War 3 paved the way for the more established forms of comics journalism now. . . . this is an indispensable collection of groundbreaking comics. --Publishers Weekly It is safe to say that nothing, in the annals of comic art, has ever resembled World War 3 Illustrated. Luckily for comic enthusiasts everywhere, this remarkable body of work is now collected in an oversized, chock-full volume. --Paul Buhle, Dissent Powerful graphic art and comic strips from the engaged and enraged pens of urban artists. The subjects include poverty, war, homelessness, and drugs; it's a poke in the eye from the dark side of America, tempered by what the artists describe as their 'oppositional optimism.' --Whole Earth Review Reading World War 3 Illustrated is both a cleansing and an enraging experience. The graphics remind us how very serious the problems and how vile the institutions that cause them really are. --Utne Reader These comics are individual, raw, exceedingly biased, and will stay with the reader for a long time to come. --Gretchen Wagner, San Francisco Book Review

This is art--not marketing--on the newsstand. It represents the sort of creativity too rarely given an outlet in comics. It's the best and longest running alternative comics anthology around. -- Comics Journal

Author Information

Peter Kuper is a cofounder and editorial board member of political graphics magazine World War 3 Illustrated and a teacher who has taught at New York's School of Visual Arts and Parsons the New School for Design. Best known for drawing Mad magazine's Spy vs. Spy comic since 1997, he has also illustrated covers for Newsweek and Time magazine. He is the author of the graphic novel Sticks and Stones, which won the New York Society of Illustrators Gold Medal, and Diario de Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico. Seth Tobocman is the cofounder of World War 3 Illustrated. He is the author and illustrator of five graphic books, including Portraits of Israelis and Palestinians, Understanding the Crash, and You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive. He has participated in exhibitions at ABC No Rio, Exit Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. His illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, among many other publications. They both live in New York City. Bill Ayers is a professor of education and senior university scholar at the University of IllinoisChicago. He is the founder of the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society and the cofounder of the Weather Underground. He lives in Chicago.

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