Estimated 75,000 Rally for Obama…Makes Drudge Report

And somewhere in that crowd is yours truly. So if you ever wanted to throw egg in my face or something (to those I’ve offended) that was your chance. Good luck.

This was truly a great event to have been a part of. Great weather, great crowd and most important, a great candidate.

It’s really weird to think that it’s been over 15 months that this cartoonist has been an unashamed, biased supporter of the Obama campaign. I’m starting to dust off my pencils again as I have a feeling I’m not going to have to draw any more pictures of Hillary Clinton.

Congratulations Clinton! You’re officially the candidate for…

the racists that still exist in this country.

What disturbs me is that there is obvious racist sentiments leading to Clinton’s victory in West Virginia. There were reports in exit polling that two-thirds of the voters in West Virginia would not vote for Obama because he is black. This should disturb Clinton more than anyone. Why should she celebrate in their votes? And it should disturb her supporters. It taints anyone that supports her.

Clinton has no chance of winning the nomination. It’s over. It’s long been over, but the Democratic party has been patient with her. And yet she continues on, based on the hope that super delegates will cozy to her broad base appeal argument.

My argument against the broad based appeal and the idea that Obama can’t win white, working class American’s is basic. I don’t want to be in a party that has racists. Period. I thought that was the other party (in fact the last two presidential elections West Virginia did in fact go to Repubicans). So if the Democratic party wants to make the argument that in order to win the election, it must appeal to this group, then sorry - I’m not party to that.

In fact if Hillary truly is not a racist then I’d expect her to come out and reject, repudiate and denounce the votes of the two-thirds of West Virginia. But of course we wont’ hear anything like that, instead we’ll have to endure another three weeks of torture as this nomination process slowly bleeds campaign money that could be going to the fight against McCain.

Wow…it makes you proud to be an American for the first time… right Michelle?

In Black and White (and Red) Day 7: China Olympic Disaster: A Silence Kept Too Long

I’m normally not one to recycle material, however considering that most visitors to this site are new, I’m going to guess you, my angry reader, won’t mind. (I’m assuming your angry, otherwise you’d probably not be interested in cartoons bashing China’s human rights position and the fact it was given the Olympics to host despite this obvious mark on its record.)

This is a drawing I did way back in the early days of this blog project called PixelMarx, I did a cartoon for the Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth. Since then, this cartoon’s been buried. That was until recently, as the public began to awaken to this whole issue.

Now with the protests surrounding the Olympic Torch relay, the image is all the more relevant. Those who’ve already seen this, I apologize (well maybe not).

You can read the original post, Foul Smell from Beijing More than Olympic Sized Pollution.

There are a few comments, including the most recent one just the other day.

Sier wrote, “Your drawing is based on your biased imagination and showing you have not any real knowledge about China.” To the biased imagination part, I fully agree (in fact I’m thinking I might steal that line when describing what I do here - drawings biased by my imagination - it has a special ring to it. But I digress.

Instead, I’m making my own pledge to boycott the Olympics, the whole thing. I’m not going to read, watch, pay any attention to the event. It’ll tie nicely into my boycott of NBC and the rest of mainstream media. And to all those who say boycotts don’t work…don’t think you persuade me :).

Note: For anyone wondering who the man behind the mask might be, it’s Hu Jintao (pronounced “who”).

In Black and White Day 6: Howard Zinn and A People’s History of American Empire

Howard Zinn’s upcoming book is being introduced by this nice presentation/political art film that’s narrated by Viggo Mortensen and guess what…it’s in black and white. I’m being lazy today (actually I’m trying to learn animation) so I thought I’d let another artist do the work.

Check out the work of Mike Konopacki, a political cartoonist, who’s brief 2 second spot at the end of the clip doesn’t give enough recognition to the artist…

In Black and White Day 2 - Seeds of War

Day 2 and I didn’t get to spend as much time as I’d have liked with this drawing. but something started to emerge toward the end. Although drawing in Photoshop, I tried to emulate a scratchboard technique. For those not familiar with what scratchboard is, it’s basically a clay board, covered in black ink. You then use a sharp object and you scrap away to reveal an image. It’s a challenging technique to do it well, of course with Photoshop, there is considerably less challenge.

In Black and White Day 1: Inaction = Silence

There is a time for color. And then there’s Picasso’s Guernica.

Especially on themes of war, of humanity, on human rights, and political struggle, black and white is often more powerful; a stark blatant expression. You can’t negotiate. Black and white offers very little subtlelty.

So I’ve set out a goal for myself (similar to the one that launched this blog). For the next 30 days I will post a new drawing each day. These drawings will be inspired by what I consider the greatest black and white political art.

There will be no words in the images. No labels or cartoonist crutches.

This first drawing was inspired by Kathe Kollwitz, who’s work I’ve long admired and could never hope of achieving her ability to communicate such raw emotion on paper. If you’ve never seen her work, take some time and familiarize yourself with her drawings. They’re beautifully tragic.

Grown-up White Denial at Heart of Jena 6 Case

When I originally started research for this story, my intent was to write a much different post. However, the more I read, the more complete a picture of the story emerged, and I realized this was a different story.

The Jena 6 case, where 6 black youth are being charged for serious crimes stemming from a series of racist incidents, is not about a series of unconnected events, like the District Attorney, Reed Walters, would like to have the media believe. No, it’s about grown-up adults condoning circumstances that encouraged racism to seethe and grown.

It all begins with a tree. This tree was widely known to provide “white-only” shade. When the Vice President of the School was asked during a school assembly by a group of black students if they could sit beneath that tree, the answer was “sure, sit wherever.” The next day three nooses were hanging from the tree. The incident was considered a prank and the students who committed the “prank” were suspended for 3 days. That’s it. I’m sure you know the rest of the story. I’m not going to go there. If you don’t you can start at CNN.com but that will only provide a smidgen of the details.

Where I am going to go is into the microcosm of society known as high school. The blame for this situation rest squarely on the school officials, the DA, and on the adults who send their kids to this school. They’re the ones that allowed this situation to incubate and chose to do nothing.

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