REMINDER — Political Cartoonist Steve Brodner Joins Bette’s Speakeasy Zoom Salon
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As a cinephile and an avid reader who enjoys a coterie of truly brilliant friends, often my words are inspired by the great writers who gave so graciously of their art.
On a loop in my mind is the scene in Judgment at Nuremberg so deftly played by Burt Lancaster and Spencer Tracy, written by Abby Mann and directed by Stanley Kramer (I could go on and on about Kramer), where Lancaster — as a convicted Nazi judge — begs Tracy — an American judge — to believe him when he says he never knew that millions would perish. In The Dying Men report, I wrote:
As I rewatched 1961’s Judgement At Nuremberg, a Nazi judge begged the US judge who headed his tribunal to believe him when he said, “Those people… those millions of people… I never knew it would come to that. You must believe it!”
To which the US judge responded, “It came to that the first time you sentenced a man to death you knew to be innocent.”
As we learned last night in my Q & A with a Navalny ally Dmitrii Kovegin:
HSC: Why do you think the world allows Putin to keep murdering his own citizens?
DK: The World is relaxed about Putin because it doesn’t understand the proximity of its own misfortune.
It came to that the first time you sentenced a man to death you knew to be innocent.
That’s where we are.
I am so grateful for all the loving notes I have received from the Navalny report, I have shared them with Dmitrii.
I am equally grateful that we have a brilliant satiric artist joining us this week.
The first time I interviewed Steve Brodner back in 2017, I asked him what his dreams were like. I can only imagine the images that swirl through that incredibly skilled mind. The image below was banned and yet, he persisted.
Here is his incredible collection of politicians who denied democracy on J6, who still want our vote:
Waddya say we don’t give it to ‘em?
How lucky are we to get to mine so many great minds.
Here are the details for Sunday:
Sunday, Feburary 18, 4 pm PT — Artist and activist Steve Brodner joins our Speakeasy!
Steve Brodner has been a leading satiric artist for the last 40 years. His goal during this time was to find a home for various forms of political and social commentary in the world of independent, freelance art. His work has appeared in most major publications in the US. He has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The Nation, The NY Times, The Washington Post, Harper’s, The Atlantic, GQ, etc. His work currently appears regularly in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and The Nation.
He has covered over 50 stories as a journalist, including 16 national political conventions, the US farm crisis, a profile of life along the Mexican border, guns in Philadelphia, climbing Mt. Fuji. The Naked Campaign, his 32 short films for NewYorker.com, documented the 2008 presidential year. In 2008 he was the subject of a major career retrospective, Raw Nerve, the first for a living artist, at the Norman Rockwell Museum. He has won many major awards in the graphic arts, including medals at the Society of Illustrators, Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, SPD, the Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism from Hunter College and the St. Gaudens Medal from Cooper Union and the Masters Series Award from the School of Visual Arts. His work currently appears daily at stevebrodner.substack.com and weekly in thenation.com. His career retrospective: Freedom Fries (2004) and the story of the Covid years in the US: Living and Dying in America (2022) were both published by Fantagraphics Books. He is an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York.Mostly, I like to think of Brodner as my friend. He was among the first people in the political resistance of 2016/2017 whose work gave witness to everything I felt. I am so grateful he is joining us to discuss his journey and his process, and his keen eye for picking up on stories that other outlets miss. Please support his work at stevebrodner.substack.com.


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