It took me around three years to complete, but here is my 34-page graphic chapbook:
It turned out wonky here on WordPress, but you can download the pdf for a clean copy.
Cruelty is the Point
06 Dec 2025 Leave a comment
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We subscribe to our local PBS (OPB) and were alerted to this story, about an ICE arrest right in our neighborhood. Be forewarned, the video footage is disturbing:
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/12/06/vancouver-ice-alleged-crushing-legs/
If you watch carefully, this was no accident, in fact the SUV rolls over the victim’s legs nonchalantly, and the article states that the agents did not get him medical care. I barely have words to describe the rage I feel, have felt, continue to feel over this America under Trump and his thugs. Even more sickening, I saw the thread of comments for OPB on Ryan’s facebook page where really sick people were praising the actions of the Nazi ICE (I left Facebook over a year ago and haven’t looked back, until now). Very soon the year will be over and as I reflect on it now, so much horror unfolded, so much cruelty, I can’t in good conscience ring in a new year as a happy one. More soon…
Note: This same story is reported in The Guardian, with more details about another ICE victim whom the they agents lured by lying, and when he came out they released an attack dog on him:
If this stuff isn’t pure evil, I don’t know what is and if you’re okay with it and voted for Trump, you are a lost cause.
Latest Panel, Measure of My Melancholy
18 Nov 2025 Leave a comment
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November 2025 (nearing completion)
No Kings Day Part 2
18 Oct 2025 Leave a comment
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We attended No Kings Day some four months later where the crowd likely more than doubled in our part of town! My heart swelled to see and hear the honking in solidarity. We will not be silenced! Since the June protests, the turd T has done so much more damage, trying to send the National Guard and increasing the arrests by F’ing ICE. We’re in this for as long as it takes to topple the dictatorship.
New Published Art
22 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
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I am happy to announce the artwork by yours truly published at Flash Frog. I created the illustration for the flash fiction piece called “Dark Rooms” by Ali McLafferty.” Click on the link below:
https://flash-frog.com/2025/09/22/darkrooms-by-ali-mclafferty/
Second Bad Trip
08 Jul 2025 Leave a comment
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We took a road trip to Olympia, Washington, for our ten year wedding anniversary this past May, arriving on a Friday. That night, we tried the new “calming” edibles we had purchased on the way, a kind that the clerk had told us was going to help us sleep. I should have known to question this assessment, for the edibles appeared much larger than the ones we had previously purchased in Vancouver, the ones that if I took them right before bed, the only side-effect would be the very thing I needed, to serve the needs of someone who struggled to fall, and to stay, asleep.
After climbing into the queen-sized bed that took up most of the room in the very tiny house, I chose the spot next to the window, and thank goodness, for what was to happen after taking the edible would make it necessary to breathe in the cool air coming from that windoe.
I immediately made note of the rust-colored beetle hanging on the wall opposite of my head, a hundred times larger than the real thing. The facsimile would serve as my point of focus in the ensuing hours in place of our smallest dog, who–rather than anchoring me as she had done during my first bad trip–would lie out of reach, underneath the heavy blanket, panting.
After chewing and swallowing the sweet salty edible, I shut my eyes and waited for the promised calm to wash over me. Instead, my heart beat rapidly as if I had been running or jump-roping good and hard. The louder it beat, the more I fixated on the false beetle–My how big you are, probably a hundred times bigger than the real thing, these people, these people must be obsessed with insects, on the other side, on the other side in the dark there’s an identical beetle remember the beetles in the house in Texas flipped over on their backs, that’s right, how long can a heart beat this fast before exploding or snuffing out my breath? Can I make it to the the tiny bathroom to vomit? Can I climb over Zen Zen and Mei Mei and babe’s legs? “Mei Mei is panting,” I managed to quietly utter, she’s panting under the heavy bed spread. And Babe, high like me only he never reacts like me, he said, “Oh, ha.” I wanted so badly to fall asleep but who can fall asleep with a heart beating so loud and fast it was greedy for the blood in my veins, competing with my brain seeking to hold onto some mantra, false beetle, be my saving grace. “Babe, my heart is beating so fast, I think I might have a heart attack,” I managed to utter. “Oh yeah?” he said. What I didn’t manage to utter was, “Maybe you should call 9-11,” and maybe they could save me from my heart exploding, and once again I’m ruining everything by being greedy for this big fat edible the girl clerk promised would be calming. Far from calming, my heart can’t take it. Time, time moved too slowly, the flase beetle hung in partial shadow, dark red ugly light. Then somehow, I must have fallen asleep with the beating heart beating just enough to keep me alive, fast, fast.
NO KINGS DAY: SATUDAY, JUNE 14, 2025
14 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
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This is what democracy looks like!
This is what community looks like!
This is what unity looks like.
NO KINGS
NO TYRANTS
I admit, we were a bit nervous when we received a message through the governor to expect the likelihood of ICE and agitators, but there was no way in hell we’d let that scare us into submission. There were two protests in Vancouver, one at the Waterfront and one in east Vancouver. We joined the latter.
Read more: NO KINGS DAY: SATUDAY, JUNE 14, 2025After all, isn’t the right to peacefully protest the American way? This NO KINGS protest in Vancouver, WA ended up much larger and stronger than I expected. There were more than 3,000 who showed up and down on Mill Plain where we marched, the majority of drivers honked in solidarity. Yes, there was the one dude on a motorcycle who flipped us off, and there was a car that drove by geared up in all MAGA. News is coming in that millions protested across the country and in all 50 states.
So much terribleness is happening all at once and so now more than ever we must fight as if Democracy and liberality depended on it. And it does!
Below are just a few photos and one video I was able to take. Right now, Democracy is upside down, but there is still hope and strength in numbers.
NO KINGS DAY
12 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
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We formed this nation in opposition to a king. No room for would-be kings!
If you care about the slide into authoritarianism in this country, please join the over 2000 protests planned for this Saturday NO KINGS DAY!
Here in Vancouver, WA, the governor warned that ICE and agitators will likely be present. They want to stir up a violent response from us, and likely want to instill fear so that we won’t exercise our right to free speech. We won’t be bullied or suppressed.
Let’s save our Democracy, in solidarity!
The Hungry Artist 