Disaster and Resistance

Susan Simensky Bietila has been an artist and activist since the 1960s. During the Vietnam war, she did artwork for the radical underground newsweekly The Guardian, and was an illustrator for the second wave feminist newspaper Rat. She has continued with art and activism ever since. 

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.

Seth Tobocman is a comic-book artist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Village Voice, Heavy Metal, and many other magazines. He is author of The Face of Struggle, You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive, and War in the Neighborhood, among several other books. He resides in New York City. 

Nicole Schulman was born and raised in New York City in the 1970s by a couple of Jews from the Bronx. She is mostly known for her political cartoons published with the World War 3 Illustrated collective, for editing Wobblies!: A Graphic History, and for murals facilitated by Groundswell Community Mural Project NYC. Schulman lives in Brooklyn, NY.