Myanmar's Rohingya
Refugees
-The Nib-
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Why a national hero is ignoring an international crisis.
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Rakhine State, Burma (Myanmar)
August 2016
Umbrella Blackout
-The Nib-
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Hong Kong’s protest movement lives on, hounded by government suppression and censorship.
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Hong Kong, China
February 2015
A Debt-To-Slave Pipeline is Building You a World Cup Stadium
-The Nib-
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The 2022 tournament in Qatar has placed a spotlight on the brutal working conditions of migrant laborers.
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Doha, Qatar
July 2014
Seoul Grind
-The Cartoon Picayune-
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With over 50 million people, Korea is becoming a huge market for everyone's favorite liquid encouragement.
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Seoul, South Korea
June 2013
The Barriers to Higher Education​
-Reed Magazine-
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A open letter to the California State University system over rising tuition and questionable construction projects.
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San Jose, California. USA
May 2012
What Haunts Us
-Uncanny Adventures-
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The Japanese attack on Nanjing devastated the Middle Kingdom for generations.
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Nanjing, China
May 2012
Cat and Mouse
-Unpublished-
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A short storytelling exercise pulled from the renowned Scott McCloud's "Making Comics."
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Fictional
April 2011
Seven Hours to Kill
-5x5-
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What happens when you let loose a cartoonist with a pen, a sketchbook, and a seven hour layover in Taipei?
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Taipei, Taiwan
October 2011
Meanwhile in Korea...
-The Nib-
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A scandal involving a cult leader and the president that is so bizarre that it puts America to shame.
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Seoul, South Korea
November 2016
There is no "F" in Korean
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Institutionalized sexism, misogyny, and the feminism movement changing South Korea.
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Seoul, South Korea
November 2016
The New Jim Crow
-Fusion-
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Betsy DeVos' 'school choice' movement isn't social justice. It's a return to segregation.
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New Orleans, Louisiana. USA
May 2017
Leaving North Korea
-The Nib-
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With the cost to defect tripling, fleeing the hermit kingdom just isn’t what it used to be.
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Hamgyeongnam-do, North Korea
March 2017
Duterte Declares Martial Law
-The Nib-
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The Philippines may be about to slip back into a repeat of the dark history of the Marcos era.
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Marawi City, Philippines
May 2017
GMOs Are Helping to Make an Agricultural Crisis in India
-The Nib- / -The Intercept-
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Multinational corporations are making a killing off the agricultural patent system.
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Madhya Pradesh, India
August 2017
It Was The Worst Of Times
-The Nib-
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My send-off to 2017, which saw the Trump administration double down on threats of nuclear war in Korea.
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Seoul, South Korea
December 2017
Five Cartoonists on Guns
-The Nib-
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My response to continued gun violence in the US from a perspective as a military veteran and as a journalist.
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Las Vegas, Nevada. USA
December 2017
Genocide in Myanmar, Right Under the World’s Nose
-The Nib-
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New evidence shows the military junta’s actions to ethnically cleanse the Rohingya.
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Rakhine State, Burma (Myanmar)
February 2018
“We Are At War”
-The Nib-
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Scenes from the ground in Chile, where people are trying to remove the makings of a new dictatorship.
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Santiago, Chile
October 2019
Indigenous Activists are Being Assassinated in Chile and Argentina
-The Nib-
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A recent murder committed by Chile's Jungle Commando resurfaces pain in the Mapuche community.
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Araucania Region, Chile
March 2019
Vultures of Disaster Capitalism
-World War 3 Illustrated-
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Venture capitalists descend upon Puerto Rico after Hurricane Marina, ready to privatize the entire island.
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San Juan, Puerto Rico
December 2018
Keep Hustling: Gig Economy
-The Nib-
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A piece about contractual labor from the perspective of teachers and workers in Latin America.
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Santiago, Chile
July 2019
The Struggle isn't Over
-The Nib-
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We are in the middle of a coup. Use the word. Become familiar with it. Aftermath of the 2020 US elections.
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Washington D.C., US
November 2020
Not 30 Pesos, 30 Years
-Beyond Molotovs-
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How song, sewing, and the arts were used to create an opportunity for a post-dictatorship constitution.
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Santiago, Chile
April 2024
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