Today the planet is a hot mess! A train wreck! A forest fire! A breached dam! A nuclear reactor that could melt down at any second! A massacre! And the problem is that these are not metaphors.
There are over thirty wars going on in the world today, with new ones starting all the time. Added to this human insanity is the reality of climate change and looming mass extinctions.
A lasting peace can only be obtained through addressing the historic injustices created by centuries of capitalism, racism, imperialism, sexism, gender discrimination, and colonialism. Only justice will give us peace. World War 3 NOW? is our anthology of comics, art, poetry, and writing by creative people from Ukraine, the United States, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Russia, Palestine, Italy, Israel, Peru, and other countries. Through this collection we attempt to produce a composite picture of the planet at this critical moment.
Artists and writers in this issue include: Sue Coe, Yuriy Tarnawsky, Gord Hill, Edmund Truman, Larimar Lora, Annabelle Heckler, p.tits.a , Steve Brodner, NO BONZO, Carlo Quispe, Dania & Sara, Frances Jetter, Haneen Nazzal, Isabella Bannerman, Tom Keough, Connie Norgren, Kevin Pyle, Stephen Kroninger, Volodymyr Bilyk, Harbin Lostutter, Priscilla Grim, Maryna Novohorodska, Mohammad Sabaaneh, Michael MYSH Rozanov, Nico Donatti, Nidal, Orange, Peter Kuper, Peter Odum, Sabrina Jones, Sara Shehadeh, Sara Naba, Seth Tobocman, Shalom Neuman, Tayseer Barakat, Nicole Schulman, and Susan Simensky Bietila.
Susan Simensky Bietila has been an artist and activist since the 1960s. During the Vietnam war, she did artwork for the radical underground newsweekly The Guardian, and was an illustrator for the second wave feminist newspaper Rat. She has continued with art and activism ever since.
Jordan Worley is an illustrator and cartoonist who was active with many radical movements in the 1990s, including the Lower East Side Squatters, Red Anarchist Skin Heads and Anti-Fascist Action.
Seth Tobocman is a comic-book artist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Village Voice, Heavy Metal, and many other magazines. He is author of The Face of Struggle, You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive, and War in the Neighborhood, among several other books. He resides in New York City.
Nicole Schulman was born and raised in New York City in the 1970s by a couple of Jews from the Bronx. She is mostly known for her political cartoons published with the World War 3 Illustrated collective, for editing Wobblies!: A Graphic History, and for murals facilitated by Groundswell Community Mural Project NYC. Schulman lives in Brooklyn, NY.
