{"id":280,"date":"2002-09-27T10:55:18","date_gmt":"2002-09-27T14:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=280"},"modified":"2009-10-24T21:38:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T01:38:49","slug":"poster-boy-of-protest-in-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"“Poster Boy of Protest”, in the Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"washpoststyleSep2702_650w\"For a number of years in high school and college, one of my big dreams was to take over Herblock’s job at the Washington Post<\/em><\/strong> — or, perhaps, to hit the front page in the Post’s Style\/Arts<\/em> section. Needless to say, as my work took a more radical turn, I realized that my chances of making the Arts<\/em> page — let alone becoming the successor to Herblock — were slim at the very best, and I got a little more realistic and focused my attention to creating cover cartoons for the Yipster Times<\/em> or trying to break into High Times<\/em> or Rolling Stone.<\/em><\/p>\n

So, imagine my surprise when I found myself the subject of a front-page “personality profile”-type story appearing on the front page of the Post Style <\/em>section a good twenty-odd years after my giving up on the idea of ever breaking into the Post at all. The Post<\/em> had done a couple of previous Style<\/em> profiles on local antiglob\/antiwar movement figures, and apparently, now, it was my turn; it turns out that a certain Post<\/em> reporter who’d been covering the local movements since Seattle had been a fan of my work for quite awhile, ever since it began appearing with regularity, wheatpasted on DC’s streets beginning with the original “Blood For Oil” series during Iraq War I.<\/p>\n

It was with a mixture of surprise and ironic glee, then, that I found myself and my work “writ large” on the front page of the lifestyle section of a major US city daily, getting top billing over — of all people — Catherine Deneuve (ooh la-la) and Robert Duvall. I was even more surprised to see myself getting an even-handed, quite positive treatment, as I was worried at how I’d be portrayed in print after seeing how the op-ed columnists were savaging the anti-globalization movements ever since Seattle\/WTO and A16.<\/p>\n

Story by David Montgomery; photographs by Andrea Bruce Woodall.<\/em>
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