July 2, 2016

Mke Flugennock: Cartoonist for our times

Review readers are undoubtedly familiar with the work of Mike Flugennock, which we run from time to time. Now there's a video about this exceptional cartoonist. 

 

"Flugennock, the Documentary"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1996
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cmn38ZSOp8
Mike Flugenock - Ron Douglas, producer of this documentary, is an Assistant Professor of Multimedia Communications at Wesley College, Delaware; he was a student activist involved in the anti-globalization movement at the turn of the century (this one) and became a fan of my work while wheatpasting my posters for the 2000 Spring IMF/World Bank mobilization.

Fast-forward 15 years -- Ron has become an accomplished filmmaker and documentarian, producing films about police brutality, and about Native American boarding schools in the US and Canada. Last summer, he contacted me about being the subject in one of a series of documentaries on the emergence of citizen journalism on the Internet, and specifically the creation of the Independent Media Centers across the US and the world in the wake of the Seattle WTO mobilization of 1999, and the "A16" mobilization at the IMF and World Bank in the spring of 2000.

This film provides a brief history of my cartoon work going back to the Yipster Times in the late 1970s, and my art and media activist involvement with the antiglobalization and antiwar movements of the '00s, and my work with the DC Statehood and marijuana legalization campaign of 2014.

Check out more of Ron's documentary work on YouTube at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdl91_SbBRBfkWaWPvdUmPg

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