The Right to Live in Peace

Comics for liberation in Palestine and beyond.

How do we organize and build social movements in the heart of empire, to face the US war machine and rising fascism? These comics serve as a beacon of hope and resistance, for liberation for all people from Palestine to Puerto Rico, Sudan, Congo, Haiti, and beyond.

This collection debuts a number of Palestinian artists whose work has not yet been published in the US, available in English for the first time. These comics, including luminous pieces like drawings of tents by Safaa and other artists in Gaza, speak to the role of art in movements for justice. It also features the work of many artists from around the world creating art in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Like Victor Jara's iconic resistance anthem, these comics are a "fire of pure love," a "universal song" to the "right to live in peace" (fuego de puro amor" . . . "el canto universal / El derecho de vivir en paz").

The World War 3 Illustrated collective first published an interview with famed Palestinian political cartoonist Naji Al-Ali in 1988. They make that interview available in print again for the first time in decades, along with a portfolio of his cartoons.

Contributors include: Joe Sacco and Art Spiegelman, Annabelle Heckler, Barrack Rima, Dania Omari, Ethan Heitner, Floyd Tangeman, Fuad, Jordan Worley, Larimar Lora, Naji-Al-Ali, Nicole Schulman, Maisara Bahroud, Mohammad Sabaaneh, Mohammad Zenia, Safaa, Seth Tobocman, Shahd Alshamaly, Sue Simensky Bietila, Tenaya Nasser, Tom Keough, and many others.

Mohammad Sabaaneh is a Palestinian cartoonist and a former political prisoner in Israel. He is the author of White and Black and Power Born of Dreams and is a Middle East representative for the Cartoonists Rights Network International. His work has been published in the Middle East Monitor, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Al-Hayat al-Jadida and many others. He teaches art at the Arab American University of Palestine.

Seth Tobocman is a comic-book artist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Village Voice, Heavy Metal, and many other magazines. He is author of The Face of Struggle, You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive, and War in the Neighborhood, among several other books. He resides in New York City.

Ethan Heitner is a cartoonist living and working in Inwood, New York.

Annabelle Heckler is a researcher and cartoonist working in support of social movements. Heckler's work has appeared in WW3 Illustrated and Labor Notes.

Larimar Lora is a cartoonist and illustrator based in New York City.

Jordan Worley is a cartoonist & illustrator who lives in New York. He is a frequent contributing artist and a member of the editorial collective of World War 3 Illustrated. His work has been exhibited at ABC No Rio, The New Museum, and Exit Art. His comic about living in New York post 911 is part of the permanent collection of the Prints and Photographs Division of The Library of Congress.