An active editorial cartoonist since my high school days -- both at the student paper and at a local small-town weekly -- I first got involved with "radical" cartooning in college, when I started following the exploits of the Furry Freak Brothers and Cheech Wizard, and also published my first pieces in the old Yipster Times tabloid out of New York City, and began designing posters to publicize protests and events held by the marijuana decriminalization and anti-nuclear movements of the late 1970s, as well as having cheap fun at the expense of Jimmy Carter, Antonio Somoza, the oil and nuclear industries, the Shah Of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ronald Reagan, and Alexander Haig.

After four or five years' recovery from a severe radical cartoon burnout induced by the first term of Ronald Reagan, the threat of US genocide in Iraq re-radicalized me and, in the winter of 1990-91, I did my first hardcore political cartoons since dropping out of the Yipster Times and, inspired by the "delivery system" used by Robbie Conal to expose Los Angeles to his work, chose to mass-copy and plaster them to as much flat public space as possible with wheat paste and paint rollers instead of waiting for any newspaper or magazine editors to expose their readers to such flagrantly anti-war and anti-imperialist opinions as my own.

Much to our surprise, this actually came off fairly well, enough that we ("we" being whatever circle of familiar comrades and others who agree with the editorial opinion) decided that posting political cartoons such as these -- on their own, not advertising any particular event -- was a really fine way to "disturb the comfortable". It wasn't until a while later that I found out that what we were doing was actually part of a real, live dissident cultural trend, that of public postering or "flypasting".

These days, ironically, it seems that the Internet has actually facilitated the spread of wheat-pasted paper posters around the world; I've gotten email on a fairly regular basis from artist/activists from places as far apart as Christchurch, Sydney, Montreal, New York City and Barcelona announcing how much they appreciate my work and that several thousand copies each are now adorning the streets of cities as far apart as the aforementioned.