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Union Art & More

Check out this fantastic archive of union (and anti-union) artwork and propaganda: https://ideologicalart.com/labor-movement/labor-moveme...

SABOTAGE: IWW Propaganda

From the Sept. 23, 1916 issue of the Industrial Worker

Disney Animators’ Strike of 1941

Check out the propaganda created by Disney animators in the strike of 1941: Read more here

Adventures in the College of Arts + Architecture!

I am so excited to be able to share this project that has been months in the making: I made a 28-page (!!!!) comic-style booklet for the...

31 Days of Halloween Movies: New 2019 Downloadable Calendar

I made another list/calendar of 31 Days of Halloween Movies! This is the 2nd one I have available and they are both easily printed on...

Don't Scupport SCAB Artists!

Don't support artists who work for free! Artists who are financially privileged work for free for the Likes and "exposure" and put the...

New Comics

Some new comics: Well Read, Wildflower

Why Artists are Struggling to Make a Living From Their Art (and the Activists Fighting Back)

The current model that exists, where a few artists are superstars and everyone else barely struggles to exist, is bad for everyone, and...

Artists Are Workers!

Capitalism is the problem, but until that problem is solved, artists must be compensated for their work, which is real WORK, and this is...

On Speaking Out About Artists Being Paid For Their Work

When I talk about artists getting paid for their work, that does not mean I think the entire world or even people who enjoy my work owe...

On "Success"

Yesterday someone tried to insult me by saying that if people aren't clamoring to buy my work that it must be obviously worthless. It...

Shoutout to Greensboro Bound For Doing It Right

I am reposting this shoutout here to Greensboro Bound Literary Festival , I had to mention how much I appreciate that they added two paid...

HOW TO PAY AN ARTIST WITH "EXPOSURE"

"If you have the chutzpah to ask an artist to work for exposure (see also: "free"; "experience"; "no pay but we'll feed you a dry chicken...

WHY I ABANDONED 60,000 FOLLOWERS AND DELETED MY SOCIAL MEDIA

I've written one blog post and have been drafting more about artists getting paid and other important topics around creative work that...

"Everyone Is Creative"

The whole "Everyone is creative" bullshit undermines professional artists' insistence on being paid fair rates for our work. Of course...

Without Direction, Future Unclear for Growing Street Art Scene

These are the artists you should stop supporting: these guys actually said that if artists, like myself, can't afford to paint murals for...

Creative careers: is it ever worth working for 'exposure'?

""...the presumption that creatives can provide free work needs to be challenged. Working long hours for the experience or exposure forms...

Why Do Employers Lowball Creatives? A New Study Has Answers

"A recognition that we're getting swindled is a huge first step in pushing back in this phenomenon," she says. "And a bigger second step...

Artists, Support Each Other Getting PAID

Between artists, there needs to be less patting on the back/trying to be friends with everyone and pretending we all loooooove each...

Don’t Work for Free — or Even Cheap — for Rich People

"Lena Dunham, the New York Times revealed Monday, was not planning to pay the seven artists she selected via YouTube auditions to open...

Hannah Barnhardt