The Bicentennial Generation
by Carlo Quispe & Nadia Rondon
World War 3 Illustrated:
World War NOW?
Seth Tobocman (Editor); Susan Simensky Bietila (Editor); Nicole Schulman (Editor); Jordan Worley (Editor)
Today the planet is a hot mess! A train wreck! A forest fire! A breached dam! A nuclear reactor that could melt down at any second! A massacre! And the problem is that these are not metaphors.
There are over thirty wars going on in the world today, with new ones starting all the time. Added to this human insanity is the reality of climate change and looming mass extinctions.
A lasting peace can only be obtained through addressing the historic injustices created by centuries of capitalism, racism, imperialism, sexism, gender discrimination, and colonialism. Only justice will give us peace. World War 3 NOW? is our anthology of comics, art, poetry, and writing by creative people from Ukraine, the United States, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Russia, Palestine, Italy, Israel, Peru, and other countries. Through this collection we attempt to produce a composite picture of the planet at this critical moment.
Artists and writers in this issue include: Sue Coe, Yuriy Tarnawsky, Gord Hill, Edmund Truman, Larimar Lora, Annabelle Heckler, p.tits.a , Steve Brodner, NO BONZO, Carlo Quispe, Dania & Sara, Frances Jetter, Haneen Nazzal, Isabella Bannerman, Tom Keough, Connie Norgren, Kevin Pyle, Stephen Kroninger, Volodymyr Bilyk, Harbin Lostutter, Priscilla Grim, Maryna Novohorodska, Mohammad Sabaaneh, Michael MYSH Rozanov, Nico Donatti, Nidal, Orange, Peter Kuper, Peter Odum, Sabrina Jones, Sara Shehadeh, Sara Naba, Seth Tobocman, Shalom Neuman, Tayseer Barakat, Nicole Schulman, and Susan Simensky Bietila.
CHICO Dos
The romance continues! Set in the uptown Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights, this gay romance comic features short stories of intimacy between men of color. Some take place at the NY Leather Bar The Eagle.
32 pgs. B&W
4.25 x 5.5 inches
$10
URANUS COMICS #3
URANUS ATTACKS!
We are celebrating 18 years of making experimental Queer comics with the release of Uranus Comics #3: Uranus Attacks! a new anthology with work by Jennifer Camper, Mike Diana, Jack Waters, Ivan Monforte, Rios O’Leary-Tagiuri, Katie Fricas and Carlo Quispe.
Alien invasion and disaster scenarios reflect our deeper concerns about surviving the global impact of power dynamics and economic systems.
120 pgs, B&W
8 x 10 inches
$20 plus shipping
Imaginary Planet
Near-future cyborgs of color band together into a secret society to survive and uncover the secrets of their weird toxic world.
12 pgs. B&W
4.25 x 5.5 inches
$10 plus shipping
ISABEL
WW3 Illustrated #52 Frontlines Of Repair
World War 3 Illustrated is back with a collection of comics and art about repairing our deeply damaged world. Over twenty artists interpret the theme in a wide variety of ways: mutual aid in the face of a deadly pandemic, the struggle to respond to catastrophic climate change; prison abolition and reparations for African Americans; the right of return for Palestinians and the restoration of land to Native Americans; the everyday efforts of workers who are repairing people and places and systems all around us, often invisibly; personal stories of recovery from the trauma of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, bullying, illness, abuse, or addiction. Today's youth especially have taken on this care work, creating strong social bonds to counteract institutional neglect. With a sense of optimism and direct action the artists of World War 3 Illustrated draw us solutions for some of our thorniest problems.
The Piss Party
Yellow Is The Warmest Color
Proud to participate in Yellow Is The Warmest Color Anthology! The Piss Party is a full color 10 page comic celebrating over 20 years of a local piss party in Brooklyn, NYC. Published by Trash Panda Fun Zone, Yellow Is The Warmest Color is the newest, wettest erotic comics anthology!
TOXIC CITY Part 1
Monsters Of The Bronx
“We believe that, just as the Bronx has a deep, colorful history of colonization, civil rights struggle, immigration and cultural diversity from every country and society of the world the same is true of our monsters. They come from every mythology, legend, and folk tale, and live among the other immigrants. They are beautiful, horrifying, unbelievable, and, just like every other immigrant, struggle to adapt and survive in our often troubled and conflicted society. Their issues are our issues. They are of all orientations, sexualities, education levels and social classes. Our monsters are beautiful, fabulous, and multicultural in that Boogie Down way”- Ivan Velez Jr.
CHICO
Romance comics set in the uptown Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights featuring short stories of intimacy between men of color.
32 pgs. B&W
4.25 x 5.5 inches
$10
ANITA
- WW3 Illustrated #51 The World We Are Fighting For
“This will be an explosive year. The actions we take now will define the future of our political systems and the viability of our planet. It is a good time to ask: What do we really care about? What are we fighting for?
World War 3 Illustrated is North America’s longest-running anthology of political comics and, for the fifty-first edition, artists and writers were asked to bring heart and vision to this question. The comics in this edition range from cheerful to angry, from prescriptive to absurd, employing both humor and strong imagery. Some are roadmaps for change. Others simply tell us what the artists’ values are and what they hold dear in an era of climate chaos, social polarization, and political authoritarianism.”
PACO
Strip AIDS 2020 - Print version
“Strip AIDS 2020 takes its title from a comics anthology produced in 1987 by Don Melia and Lionel Gracey-Whitman. The original Strip AIDS gathered together a broad cross-section of both the underground and mainstream comics communities, all of whom donated new and existing strips about HIV/AIDS in a show of solidarity and support, and to raise funds for London Lighthouse, an innovative care center and hospice for people with HIV and AIDS in London, UK. The anthology inspired a US version published in 1988, titled Strip AIDS USA, edited by Trina Robbins, Bill Sienkiewicz and Robert Triptow.”
PACO
Strip AIDS 2020
The new PACO comic strip is one of a series of new comics addressing contemporary aspects of the ongoing HIV pandemic, commissioned by Visual AIDS and curated by Paul Sammut.
Visual AIDS Artist+ Member and HIV advocate Joey Terrill and cartoonist Carlo Quispe talk about comics as a tool for addressing fear and stigma in the gay community. They discuss what has changed—and what hasn’t—since the 1980s, and how comics can offer new forms of representation for queer Latinx communities in the Visual AIDS podcast here.
CARLITO
“Carlo Quispe’s autobiographical Carlito is a legit joy, as we follow the coming-of-age trials and tribulations of his ten-year-old self who moves from Spain to Peru to US, navigating his parents’ divorce and emerging sexuality along the way. Illustrated with an economy of lines but a surplus of passion, this is everything you used to love about autobio but thought long lost in this age of clinically dispassionate memoir, and represents one of the best five dollar expenditures you’ll make this year.” Ryan C.
CARLITO RFD -
I’M MIGRATION
Read the original version of CARLITO in the RFD 177 Anthology I’m Migration. This is an autobiographical comic about being a child immigrant in a hostile world.
URANUS ATTACKS!
Sci-fi Horror parody Mini-comic and mini-poster.
Take a look at the small art exhibit here
URANUS Comics
Alphabet Anthology
Uranus Comics, an autobiographical comic about being a cartoonist, being Queer and being a comic book version of yourself. First appearance of Paco. Full color versions of early work, like Cat-Face and the Everything Is Ok Comic.
Featuring over 50 creators, ALPHABET is an anthology celebrating a decade of Prism Comics Queer Press Grant. 2017 Lambda Literary Award Finalist and 2017 Ignatz Award nominee.
DOGBOY
Smoke Signal 29, Coney Island Special
Dogboy is an interpretation of the legendary Coney Island Dog-Faced man. He is still an immigrant, is generous and speaks many languages.
Uranus 2
Uranus Vol.2, from Carlo Quispe and Mike Diana, collects their comics from 2010 to 2018, Boiled Angel Publishing.
Uranus 0, pamphlet - FREE PDF
Unranus 0, 2010, Carlo Quispe comics and drawings, (out of print), Printed Matter Inc.
Uranus 1
Uranus 1 collects the work of Carlo Quispe, Mike Diana from 2004 to 2010, with Shane Uht, Printed Matter Inc.
POLITICAL WILL
WW3 Illustrated 44, The Other - Anthology about the experience of being made to feel “the other”.
“Carlo Quispe, who's become one of my favorite personal/political cartoonists, uses his expressive scrawl of a line to relate a story about trying to reconcile his dating life with his political life as an activist.” Rob Clough
Political Will, WW3 Illustrated 46
WW3 Illustrated 46, Youth and Climate Change, Political Will travels the US documenting the immigrant movement Come Out Of The Shadows.
Political Will, QU33R
“It's a great story about the intersection between political acts and personal politics, especially in how they intersect with relationship to HIV-status, polyamory, and protests.” - Rob Clough
QU33R, from editor Rob Kirby, features great new comics from 33 contributors—legends and new faces alike. Winner of the 2014 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Anthology!
Political Will, WW3 Illustrated 46
WW3 Illustrated 46, Youth and Climate Change, Political Will teams up with new friends and attends a very nude protest against very rude AIDS budget cuts.
KILLER HEIGHTS
“The story of Brian and his love affair with a hustler named Bible. The loose outline of their dalliance and breakup is told told through sketchy line drawings arranged in a basic comic book style and involves a cast of other characters: (…) young gay men looking for love.”
ASS-TRO-BOY
ASS-TRO-BOY Mini-Comic includes his origin story and his “Escape From Thralldom.” Third chapter “Flight To Venus” coming soon! Stickers still available in the shop.
URANUS in RFD Comics Issue
URANUS COMICS in the RFD Comics issue is an autobiographical comic about being a cartoonist thanks to a lot of help from friends.
Hairy Tales
Hairy Tales is a mini-comic about a gay ware-wolf out on the hunt. Included in the comics anthology Uranus 2. Short Animated film adaptation by Director Pablo Oliverio
Fire In MY Belly, Ants In My Pants!
WW3 Illustrated 43 EXPRESSION REPRESSION REVOLUTION
FIre in My Belly, Ants In My Pants! is about who is behind the censorship of David Wojnarowicz’s work in the Smithsonian Queer art exhibit Hide/Seek and the gestures of protest by AA Bronson, an artist in the exhibit and others in the art world.
Besame Mucho
WW3 Illustrated 42, Tahrir : Liberation from the Mideast to the Midwest
"Bésame Mucho" is a plea for love and understanding, a call-out to sexual liberation and self expression. It is a comic made to honor of the struggle of the young activists of MHOL in Lima facing violence and religious intolerance.” - Carlo Quispe
“Carlo Quispe's "Besame Mucho", an account of the struggle for gay rights in Peru through public kissing events, is at once painfully local and profoundly international in its scope.” - Rob Clough
“Included in this section as well are images and selections from the young queer Peruvian-American artist Carlo Quispe's anarchic life-size comics. Distributed for free in zines in his queer community in New York City, or displayed in "World War III Illustrated," an anarchist collective of comic book artists of which he is a member, Quispe's images evoke a carnivalesque cornucopia of the queer utopic imaginary that plays with notions of desire, the public, radical politics, convention, and the queering of religious imagery. Quispe's evocative imagery transgresses typical notions of public and private, secular and religious in ways that open up a gleeful, inclusive, and radically collective future.” - S&F Online
Pulgarcito De Las Americas, (Tom Thumb of the Americas) WW3 Illustrated
“One powerful (…)biography is a comment on Globalism; Carlo Quispe's tale of a Salvadoran immigrant whose life stress actually bursts out of the comic's panels.” - Mike Mosher
WW3 Illustrated 38 Facts On The Ground, “"Facts on the Ground" accounts take place in (Mexico,) Iraq, New Orleans, Coney Island and El Salvador, and address endless war, the worldwide land grab, lingering apartheid, immigrants' rights and more.”
WW3 Illustrated Hardcover 1979-2014, “Founded in 1979 by Seth Tobocman and Peter Kuper, World War 3 Illustrated is a labor of love run by a collective of artists (both first-timers and established professionals) and political activists working with the unified goal of creating a home for political comics, graphics, and stirring personal stories.”
The Everything is Ok Comic in WW3 Illustrated 35
WW3 Illustrated 35, Life During Wartime. Cat-Face in a Bush-era comic against police brutality and war propaganda.
Food Not Wars, WW3 Illustrated 41
WW3 Illustrated 41, The Food Chain, includes Food Not Wars, about Kid and Ma Dude, protesting friends that become closer salvaging food and serving it at the park and at protests.
My President Went To Jail, WW3 Illustrated 49
WW3 Illustrated 49, Now Is The Time For Monsters, includes the story of how Peru’s 90’s President Alberto Fujimori went to jail after his crimes were exposed and he lost his right-wing support.
Make Comics, Not War!
The Everything Is Ok Comic, Mini-Comic (out of print)
German version with GRRRR, Strapazin 71
Cat-Face in a Bush-era comic against police brutality and war propaganda. First appearance of Cat-Face.
The Mechanical Pencil
First appearance of CARLITO in "Derring-Do: True Crime/False Crime Issue" anthology. Problems arise when Carlito “liberates” a mechanical pencil from a stationary store and dad finds out…
CARLITO Extra Roasting Beans
Roasting Beans, Chris Jaeger. The Chris Jaeger visual album “Roasting Beans” (is) a double-sided poster, a music album and a film in one. In collaboration with various including GRRRR and Carlo Quispe. CARLITO lives on in this short memory about Lima, Peru in the 80’s.