[art/comix] NEW TOBOCMAN BOOK OUT, SIGNING IN L.A.
From Meltdown:
Sunday April 27 5-7pm
Book signing and presentation
Please join us at :
Meltdown
7522 W. Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
323.851.7223
www.meltcomics.com
Portraits of Israelis and Palestinians:
For my Parents
By Seth Tobocman
Trade Cloth/120 pgs
Price: 15.95
Available April 2003
During the summer of 2002, Seth Tobocman taught art to small children in a village just outside of Ramallah, Palestine. Upon returning to America he was faced with the difficult prospect of explaining to his parents, life-long Zionists, just what he was doing in Palestine. To help initiate the conversation he collected twenty pages from his sketchbook of the trip and sent it to them. The drawings created a starting point from which they could talk about their differing political and religious beliefs concerning the Middle East.
Portraits of Israelis and Palestinians, a collection of charcoal drawings with simple captions such as “This is a modern man”, “These are Palestinians”, “These are Israelis” strips away the historical, religious and political complications surrounding the situation in the Middle East. He takes no sides, simply depicting the faces, clothes, and postures of the inhabitants of this contested land.
In sharing these private drawings, he allows us all to participate in the dialogue he had with his parents. How can we stop killing each other? How can we learn to recognize each other’s humanity?
“One of the most important political artists working today, Seth has always been ready to place himself on the front-line of the battle for human rights. This gives his art the power it radiates, that unbelievably rare thing in this world, truth.”
— Peter Kuper
Seth Tobocman began drawing comics and political cartoons as a teenager in the 1970’s. In 1979, Tobocman (along with Peter Kuper) started the radical and renowned comic book
World War Three Illustrated as a protest to the Carter/Reagan arms build-up.
Tobocman has published two books,
You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive and
War in the Neighborhood. His work has appeared in the film
The Crow and been used as cover art for recording artists on Polygram and Warner Brothers Records. His work has also appeared in
The New York Times,
The Nation and
The Village Voice. Much of his artwork has been used for murals and posters of social movements and in demonstrations across the world
Sunday April 27 5-7pm
Book signing and presentation
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