elcome to the Thorkelson Graphics web page, featuring examples of my cartoon, illustration, and graphic design work (my name is Nick Thorkelson). The newest item on my site is a 10-page comic about Yiddish writers called Baruch Rivkin's Shrayber un Arbeter, which will appear in the anthology Yiddishland, forthcoming from Abrams Books. I am also pleased to announce the publication of Fortune Cookies, a 48 page anthology of new comics, mostly by myself and Susan Rice, with contributions from Leonard Rifas and Jen Flores. You can
use other links on this page to check out samples of my cartoons, graphic design, and paintings by clicking on the appropriate words in this sentence or on one of the buttons above. More specifically, you can look at: The Comic Strip of Neoliberalism, a series of comics set in Mexico, India, South Africa, Iraq and Brazil that I did for Dollars & Sense magazine; a comics biography of the poet Kenneth Patchen, which appears in an anthology of comics about the Beats published by Hill & Wang in early 2009; It's a Long Way to Hazard, a comic about a student/miner conference I attended in 1964 (part of Paul Buhle and Harvey Pekar's Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History, also from Hill and Wang, published January 2008); "I Object to Anarchism In This Boxcar," a comic strip about a comic strip (Ernest Riebe's 1912-1919 IWW strip, "Mr. Block"); you can take a look at my Boston Globe cartoons; see a page of Mexico sketches, or a page of sketches of cartoonists, check out
some drawings (not cartoons) and statistics relating to homeless women, see some drawings of animals (if a browser search for
lions, badgers, cats, bullfrogs, bushpigs, brown fish owls, or white faced whistling ducks brought you to this page, this is the link you want); get an instant postcard from Italy; or, if you're into music, view some linoleum cuts of musicians.
The picture on the right is from one of my sketchbooks and it depicts some fellows minding their own business. Click here to see another sketch of somebody using public transportation. The "Grave Robbery" image on the left is a link to a series of images, in a pseudo-animation style, that were designed to accompany a song.
Comics and Cartoons
Comic Strip of Neoliberalism • Boston Globe Cartoons • Mr. Block• It's a Long Way to Hazard
The “Comic Strip of Neoliberalism” is a series I am doing for Dollars & Sense magazine; the Boston Globe is New England's biggest daily paper; “Mr. Block” was a comic strip character created by Ernest Riebe for the Industrial Workers of the World -- my comic about this comic appears in Wobblies: A Graphic History, published by Verso in 2005. “It's a Long Way to Hazard” is a story I did for Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History
Here are some links to cartoons of mine that are not pictured above: a cartoon about temp workers; a large 2-panel cartoon on “reverse racism”; a 1994 comic on the World Trade Organization called “ What Happens When They Be-GATT the Beginnings?”; a drawing about tenant unity from the book Lenders and Landlords by the Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition; and a Boston Review drawing about campaign spending reform.
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Graphic Design
CD covers • There's Room For Us All • LINKS • féile an phobail • Books of Hope • FMLA Handbook
The Peter Tork CD is available from Beachwood Records. "There's Room For Us All" was a conference that helped lead to the creation of The Welcome Project in Somerville, Mass. The “Links” booklet is a curriculum for third world paramedics published by the World Health Organization. The “féile an phobail” poster was commissioned by Peacewatch Ireland, a U.S. group that supports Irish human rights and social justice organizations, for the 1997 West Belfast People's Festival. Peacewatch Ireland can be reached at P.O. Box 2543, Boston, MA 02130. Books of Hope is a project that helps teenagers in Somerville, Massachusetts write and publish their prose and poetry. The FMLA Handbook (illustrated by myself) is available from Work Rights Press.
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