Freedom Funnies

comics and illustrations by Ethan Heitner -- available for hire, freelance illustration, comics and design @freedomfunnies on gmail/twitter/wordpress

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Questions For My Family

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No remote! No Zoom! Kids should get a snow day!

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For love is as fierce as death...

I'd like to specifically thank the editors, writers, and staff at Jewish Currents. This comic owes inspiration and deep appreciation specifically to:

Maya Rosen and Erez Bleicher writing about their friend, Khalil Abu Yahya, for giving me the strange ambiguous beauty of the Biblical lines from which the title for this piece is taken

Dan Berger, The Abolitionist Logic of “Everyone for Everyone” for giving me simple language for a complicated vision

Arielle Angel and Aurora Levins-Morales, for "We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other"

and also Gabe Winant, writing in Dissent magazine, for "Israel is a machine for the conversion of Jewish grief into power."

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pg 2-3

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First page I have finished inking in over a year, first of seven pages about Gaza forthcoming

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“What You Need To Know”

is the title of a two page comic done by Seth Tobocman about climate change that I have always said was the most effective political comic flyer I’ve ever seen. I’ve always wanted to do a cover version for Israel/Palestine.

Thanks to Aurora Levins Morales, Carter Adams, and others for feedback and editorial input.

Edit: Here is a downloadable print version of this comic as a two-sided flyer for printing

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Czolgosz Syzygy

La salute è in voi! PO Box 34 New York, NY 10040 czolgoszsyzygy on IG/TW

36 pages, b+w, interviews, comics and art

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#defundnypd

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World War 3 Illustrated #51: The World We Are Fighting For 

Coming this Fall from AK Press! Pre-order your copy here!

224 pages, black and white with color covers and special color sections, 7 by 9 inches, perfect bound - $15

The actions we take now will define the future of our political systems and the viability of our planet. It is a good time to ask: What do we really care about? What are we fighting for?

World War 3 Illustrated is North America’s longest-running anthology of political comics and, for the fifty-first edition, artists and writers were asked to bring heart and vision to this question. The comics in this edition range from cheerful to angry, from prescriptive to absurd, employing both humor and strong imagery. Some are roadmaps for change. Others simply tell us what the artists’ values are and what they hold dear in an era of climate chaos, social polarization, and political authoritarianism.

Contributors include: ABO Comix Collective, JB Brager, Steve Brodner, Sue Coe, Ethan Heitner, Sandy Jimenez, Ben Katchor, Peter Kuper, Mac McGill, Courtney Menard, Rebecca Migdal, José Muñoz, Mohammad Sabaaneh, Sue Simensky, Terry Tapp, Colleen Tighe, Seth Tobocman, Jordan Worley, and more.

Edited by Ethan Heitner, Peter Kuper, and Seth Tobocman

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I am honored and excited that my poster for the Celebrate People’s History series, celebrating Palestinian cultural resistance as exemplified by the Piano Player of Yarmouk, will be included in the new, expanded edition of the CPH Poster Book, which is available for pre-sale now (here is a link to the Justseeds pre-sale page).

https://justseeds.org/product/cph-new

For more information, see below by CPH curator Josh MacPhee:

The new Celebrate People’s History poster book is printed, and it looks beautiful! There are 202 posters included in this new edition, an expanded intro, and a new foreword by the amazing Charlene Carruthers. Drew Stevens at the Feminist Press did a fabulous job on the design. The book officially is being released the first week in August, and FP has launched their pre-sale here (https://www.feministpress.org/books-a-m/celebrate-peoples-history-second-edition/)

I’ve also launched a pre-sale on Justseeds, where folks will get 15% off (so the book is $25), or they can have an option to buy the book AND a complete set of CPH posters that are in print for $125 (Basically $1 a poster plus the book for free!). Here is the link, and please share it: https://justseeds.org/product/cph-new

I would love it if any and all of you could help me promote the book.

There is a lot going on in the world right now, amazing and terrifying, and the release of a book is hardly the most important thing. But I also believe that this project provides an amazing, poly-vocal grounding and history for so much of the activism and organizing going on today, and can and should be particularly useful right now. I want to get this book into the autonomous zones, occupied city halls, anti-pipeline tree sits, and everywhere people are fighting for a better world. (To that end, if you know of anywhere that it would be useful to send a copy, let me or Jisu know!) Thanks for taking part in this book, and 20+ year poster project! much xoxo,Josh ps. If you, or anyone you know, has any interest in pasting up posters in your area, let me know and I can send you posters. Now that I have a small child, I don’t get the posters up on the street like I used to, but I would love to see them out there! pss. I don’t have the money to print everyone’s new posters right away. It costs between $500-800 to print a run of posters, and I have saved up some money (and my covid check!) and am having 8 new posters printed in August. I hope some of those sell well, and I can print another 6-8 by the end of the year. If you know of anyone or any group (like a union, community organization, etc.) that might help fund the printing of your poster (or any other!), please let me know. psss. Not surprisingly, all the CPH exhibitions I had planned for 2020 have fallen through because the spaces are still sorting out how, when, and if they will re-open. If you hear of any new exhibition opportunities for a project like this, please let me know!

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“What You Need To Know”

is the title of a two page comic done by Seth Tobocman about climate change that I have always said was the most effective political comic flyer I’ve ever seen. I’ve always wanted to do a cover version for Israel/Palestine.

Thanks to Aurora Levins Morales, Carter Adams, and others for feedback and editorial input.

Edit: Here is a downloadable print version of this comic as a two-sided flyer for printing

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I contributed art to JVP’s Hannukah #RekindleResistance action which you can join here! Check out the full Hannukah toolkit here including more art, coloring books, dreidel games, social media tags, and lots more!

Also, apparently I don’t know how to make a simple coloring book page 😂

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Pretty blatantly ripping off Seth Tobocman in this one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Nos Cubrimos Las Espaldas

Drawn in 2017 for World War 3 Illustrated #48: Fight Fascism

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Art for JFREJ’s 2017 fall direct action training series

(aleph-in-a-pomegranate symbol courtesy of Rosza)

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Two illustrations made for JFREJ’s “Seder In The Streets” 2017 Haggadah supplement.

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This comic was made for a 12 page black-and-white tabloid comix newspaper organized by Seth Tobocman and published with the help of Shadow Press and distributed at the January 20th, 2017 inauguration protests.