SPX 2020: Strategies of Resistance

Political cartooning is often also intensely personal. How do political cartoonists decide how to personalize their strategies for resistance against powerful state and corporate structures? Moderator Rob Clough will engage (Constitution Illustrated), Dwayne “Mr. Fish” Booth (Nobody Left), Breena Nuñez (The Nib), and Derf (Kent State: Four Dead In Ohio) regarding visual strategies, the use of satire, and other decisions that go into their own personal forms of political resistance through artistic expression. ABOUT THE PANELISTS: DWAYNE “MR. FISH“ BOOTH has been a freelance writer and cartoonist for twenty-five years, publishing under both his real name and the pen name of Mr. Fish with the Los Angeles Times, the LA Weekly, the Village Voice, the Atlantic, The Nation, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Magazine, MSNBC, Truthdig and others. He was an animated character designer for Bento Box Entertainment and is the subject of a 2017 award-winning documentary by Pablo Bryant called M