I’m in an interview about “Captain America” and Hollywood Propaganda with Anastasia Churkina of RT America.

Cartoon Movement, which is edited by my friend David Axe this week against and for embedded war correspondency.
Check it out!

I just received word that my cartoon blog from Afghanistan took First Prize at this year’s Association of Alternative Newsweekly Awards. This is my first-ever AAN Award, and I did begin my career in alt weeklies, so this is a bit of a thrill.

The only alt weekly that ran them wasBoston’s Weekly Dig. No other alt weekly paper was interested, so yay Dig and thanks to my editor, the brilliant cartoonist Tak Toyoshima.

The only other recognition I received for filing uncensored unembedded cartoons from the war in Afghanistan was a runner-up placement in the Scripps-Howard Journalism Award.

I am currently working on a book based on my experience for Hill & Wang, a division of Farrar Straus & Giroux.

In case you missed it, hundreds of thousands of Americans will occupy Washington DC and refuse to leave until US military forces withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq. This dramatic event begins October 6, 2011, a Thursday, and ends…well…when the wars end. Tahrir Square comes to Washington!

Here’s my video of why I’m going:

Not so many costumes this year.

I am signing books today and tomorrow at San Diego Comicon:

Friday and Saturday, July 21-22, 2011
Book Signing
2:30-4:00 pm
San Diego Comicon
San Diego, California
I will be at the NBM Publishing booth

I’m in this video promoting the Oct. 6th occupation demonstration of DC. Spread the word!

This is the view across from my book signing.

Check out my signing tomorrow:

Thursday, July 21, 2011
Book Signing
2:30-4:00 pm
San Diego Comicon
San Diego, California
I will be at the NBM Publishing booth