Susan Simensky Bietila has been an artist and activist since the 1960s. She did artwork for The Guardian—the radical newsweekly during the Vietnam war—and the 2nd Wave Feminist underground newspaper Rat and has continued to do art and activism ever since. She has been active against mining in Wisconsin and in support of Public Education. Presently she is creating art for C.A.R.S.(Citizens Acting for Rail Safety) Milwaukee.
Kevin Pyle is an illustrator and cartoonist whose work has appeared in The New York Times Op-Ed page, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, The National Law Journal, The Progressive, Adbusters and numerous other publications.He has taught comics, illustration and the cultural history of monsters in a variety of school environments and grade levels. He lives with his wife and son in a creaky house somewhere just past the swamps of Jersey.
Rebecca Migdal is an author and an interdisciplinary artist working in new and traditional media. She has worked as a filmmaker, designer, teacher and performer, and is currently writing her second novel. She is the creator of the graphic novel Zombie Punk (Mythoprint Publishing, 2015).
Jordan Worley is an illustrator and cartoonist who was active with many radical movements in the 1990s including the Lower East Side Squatters, Red Anarchist Skin Heads and Anti-Fascist Action.
Sue Coe is an artist, animal rights activist, and anti-fascist. She has depicted the rights struggles of women, children, queers, animals, refugees, and political dissidents. She has exposed the suffering of AIDS patients, displaced persons, and domesticated animals. She has also peered inside factory farms, zoos, prisons, and refugee camps. Coe’s prints, drawings and paintings are found in many major art museums, and her illustrations have been published in The New York Times, The Nation and many other magazine and books.
Stephen F. Eisenman is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Northwestern University and the author of a dozen books including 19th C, Art – A Critical History (Thames and Hudson, 1994), Gauguin’s Skirt (Thames and Hudson, 1997), The Abu Ghraib Effect (Reaktion, 2007), and The Cry of Nature: Art and the Making of Animal Rights (Reaktion, 2015). He is also art critic and columnist for Counterpunch. He’s co-founder of the environmental justice non-profit, Anthropocene Alliance.
