“If You Want To Go Fast, Go Alone. If You Want To Go Far, Go Together.” - Ancient Chinese Proverb

Bill Moyers Question: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is a tough book. It’s not Dispatches from Disneyworld. It paints some very stark portraits of poverty, despair, destructive behaviour. What makes you think people want to read that sort of thing these days?

Chris Hedges Answer: That’s not a question that Joe Sacco and I ever asked. It is absolutely imperative that we begin to understand what unfettered, unregulated capitalism does – the violence of that system.

Painting by Paco Pomet in Banksy’s Dismaland.

“I don’t think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.” - Scott McCloud

Joan Fontaine reading comics.

This is the beginning of the healing from the addiction – the addiction to oil, the addiction to consumerism, the addiction to that lifestyle which leaves you strung out, feeling miserable and lonely. There is more work to be done. - Doug Good Feather

“We’re trying to get the pandemic under control. We're trying to put people back to work. I don't find that boring. I work in the government. If you find that boring, maybe you should work for US Magazine and cover scandals in Hollywood.” ― White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Peter Hamby’s Snapchat show 

The Boring News Cycle Deals Blow to Partisan Media https://www.axios.com/partisan-media-biden-trump-26f54a8b-d4e2-4319-a185-bd5f55ac661f.html

Boring is the new interesting. - Guy Delancey

Images by Inge Morath and Saul Steinberg

“Resistance and change begin in art.” - Ursula K Le Guin

Artwork by Fiona Staples in Saga.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny'. - Isaac Asimov

Photo - Isaac Asimov and Family

”The universe is an intelligence test.” - Timothy Leary

Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now. - Steven Wright

“You deserve to take up space.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Artwork by Pamela Phatsimo