Seth Tobocman event, Arise! Bookstore, Aug 21, 7pm

Disaster and Resistance: Comics and Landscapes for the 21st Century
Reading on Thursday, August 21st at 7pm
Noted New York graphic novelist visits Minneapolis to support anti-RNC organizing

Radical New York artist and cartoonist Seth Tobocman uses music and images to dramatize incidents from his new book, 'Disaster and Resistance' (http://www.akpress.org/2008/items/disasterandresistanceakpress) in Minneapolis on Thursday, August 21st. Tobocman writes and draws about urban activism, the struggle against racism and paranoia in post-9/11 New York and his experience volunteering in flooded New Orleans. The reading will take place on the 21st at 7pm at Arise Books, located at 2441 Lyndale Avenue S. Sliding scale $2-$10.

Seth Tobocman's work draws on his experience as a squatter in New York's Lower East Side and his work as an anti-racist and anti-war activist. He is the co-founder of long-running radical comics journal World War Three Illustrated and the author of War in the Neighborhood, You Don't Have To Fuck People Over To Survive, Freedom of the Press in Black and White: The Story of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Black Reporter, and Portraits of Israelis and Palestinians for My Parents. His art is deeply critical of the Bush administration and often focuses on communities resisting racism and economic attack.

Seth Tobocman's work is instantly recognizable, a fusion of the documentary and the symbolic: a crowded courtroom gives way to a flooded landscape menaced by vultures clutching electrical cable and dollar bills; a woman cradles her home carefully in her hand; two figures struggle in agony, one tearing the other's throat. His work has been shown on streets and in galleries around the globe, including the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art.