Inspired by K. Woodman-Maynard's work in Minneapolis, I got to collaborate with @pazplays.bsky.social on this short comic about the horrible ICE detention center right near the bustling Burlington Mall here in a Massachusetts.

#iceoutcomics #nokings @bearingwitnessice.bsky.social

The ART of comics also can be incredibly useful and powerful as a political organizing tool. We've seen that with @comixaction.com's #Comics4Liam campaign and the #ICEoutComics and the @stopproject25comic.bsky.social. So I try to help with projects like that whenever I can.

Art is a beautiful way to remember. I also love the #ICEoutComics

It helps me to revisit the Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties which @mcsweeneys.net updates monthly. February should be posted in the next week and a half.

www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/lest...

#ICEOutComics #ABlueView

ICE Out Comics art initiative was begun by MN cartoonists K. Woodman-Maynard, Trung Le Nguyen & Jason Walz. To find more ICE out comics, search for hashtags #iceoutcomics and #iceoutmpls on Instagram & Bluesky.

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“We’re not black or white
Red or yellow
Neither brown but every color…”
#comics #iceoutcomics #rufusharris #notblackorwhite

Today marks one month since Alex Pretti was shot and killed in the street by federal agents. I remember the day well. It was just after the march; it was another frigid early morning. Notably (for me) it was Hockey Day Minnesota.

I hoped idealistically that the Wild, my beloved hometown team, would cancel the game scheduled for that night. I knew they would not. I watched the Timberwolves postpone their evening game. I listened to the Wild broadcast vaguely acknowledge unspecified events across the river in Minneapolis during pregame, watched as they didn't even spare a moment's silence after the murder of one of their neighbors. And I will never forget the words they bungled as they segued from their non-statement: "More importantly, back to hockey."

That's how we got here. Indifference. Avoiding difficult truths because they make the wrong people uncomfortable. Taking calls in locker rooms and laughing at jokes that aren't jokes. The US Men's Hockey Team will visit the White House exactly one month after Alex Pretti's murder. Hockey will do as it always does: address nothing, change nothing. It will wait for everyone to forget as the news cycle changes. People will continue to be maced, abducted, and killed in the streets outside the arenas these men skate on, and none of them will care.

But I'm taking it too seriously, aren't I? Because it's 'just sports,' right?

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics 02.24

I'm glued to my phone these days which has the effect you'd probably expect.

The bad news machine keeps churning out bad news which I devour, unable to stop the scroll.

I know it's okay to take a break, to rest my eyes, my brain, my nervous system. I know stepping away — just for a moment — isn't selfish.

But I can't.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics 02.06

People keep asking how I'm doing and the answer always feels too small.

I see constant news on my phone, on TV, in the paper. I see streets I know so well; ones I walked and drove everyday for years. Shops and restaurants I've frequented are now opening their doors as makeshift medic stations, recovery bases, bathrooms and kitchens to people in need.

The Cities are not without fault or prejudice or tension, and they never have been. But they're full of neighbors who take that role seriously. People who hold the door for you when you're half a block away are now holding front lines.

Our neighborhoods have gone through chaos before, but this targeted ICE occupation feels different. I'm perpetually worried in a way I haven't been in a while. I'm trying to keep my head up, knowing we outnumber them. We always will.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics 01.26

A field of wildflowers and butterflies with a few bumblebees. The text reads, “They think of people as pests to be driven out and crushed. But diversity is what makes a garden thrive.”

A group of different sizes and shapes of lit candles. The text reads, “they think kindness and empathy are a weakness. But it has kept communities warm from the biting cold for centuries.”

Different protest signs, fist raised and the Minnesota flag. Some of the signs read: ICE OUT. Badges don’t excuse brutality. Compassion is not a crime. Chinga la migra. Immigrants make America great. The text below reads, “They think our fear and their cruelty will force us into compliance. They are wrong.”

Against the starry space, a group of folks from different walks of life and culture hold hands around the Earth. The text reads, “We will be a fellowship that protects our neighbors and works towards a world that shares its goodwill with one another.”

Things are still scary and uncertain here in Minnesota but the community is strong and so is our love

#iceoutcomics #iceoutmlps

“This will be an everlasting love
This will be the one I’ve waited for
This will be the first time anyone has loved me…”🤣
#comics #iceoutcomics

Original art for an ICE Out Comic released earlier this month. If interested, my drawing process posted on my Patreon at www.patreon.com/posts/ice-ou... #iceoutcomics

2/2 Love, ain’t what you practice it to be
Love, ain’t the love that you are giving me
Love, gotta be something you can not compare anything to…”
#comics #iceoutcomics #theuncomfortabletruth #nneka

“Did you hear what they said?
Did you hear what they said?
They said another brother’s dead
They said he’s dead, but he can’t be buried
They said he’s dead, but he can’t be buried
Come on, come on, come on, come on
This can’t be real…”
#comics #iceoutcomics #didyouhearwhattheysaid #gillscottheron

“There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man with a gun over there
A-telling me I got to beware
I think it’s time we stop
Children, what’s that sound?
Everybody look what’s going down…”
#comics #iceoutcomics #forwhatitsworth #buffalspringfield

“I wish I could share
All the love that’s in my heart
Remove all the doubts
That keep us apart

I wish you could know
What it means to be me
Then you’d see and agree
That every man should be free…”
#comics #iceoutcomics #ninasimone #iwishiknewhowitwouldfeeltobefree

Authors, cartoonists cover the state and internet to raise awareness, money Instagram comics and book signings throughout the state are on tap Feb. 28.

Star Tribune: 'Authors, cartoonists cover the state and internet to raise awareness, money'

'Instagram comics and book signings throughout the state are on tap Feb. 28.'

'Nguyen said #iceoutcomics may be breaking down other barriers, as well.'

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Check out the #iceoutcomics hashtag for stories from real people.

Check out #iceoutcomics to see real stories from comic artists.
#iceoutofmn

A 4-panel Comic watercolor + pen, with digital lettering. Panel 1: The panel is split nearly in half-diagonally. Top/Left is in various shades of blue and depicts a Metro Transit Blue Line Train, the train is bisected at the diagonal. Bottom/Right in various shades of gray is a Boston Green Line train. Caption 1 [Typeface is emulates handwriting, above the train]: I read that the light rail to the general strike rally in Minneapolis was so packed some people had to wait for up to four trains to pass before they could board. Caption 2 [Below the train]: A day later, I boarded a Green Line train in Boston to an emergency protest after Alex Pretti's execution. Panel 2: Interior of a Green Line Train, in shades of gray. We're looking straight on at a row of empty seats. Caption: I easily found a seat. I tried listening in to learn if anyone one else was heading to the protest. Shalee and I had been back in Boston for less than a week. We had to keep reminding people that "no, our winter break in Minneapolis was not relaxing." Panel 3: Interior Park Street Station, from the bottom of the stairs, and looking up and out of the station*. It is dark outside. The wide stairwell is empty, and the scene is colored in shades of gray. Four, spiked word balloons travel down the panel originating from outside. The balloons and tails are deteriorated, but they are colored bright blue. The text inside is also blue and blurred. Panel 4: Exterior. Boston Commons. A crowd, in various shades of bright blue, gather in front for the Boston Common Tablet at the NE side of the park. The crowd wears winter gear and holds up (wordless) signs. The background is shades of gray, and the crowd breaks free of the panel borders, bleeding out to the edge of the image. Crowd [Balloons have thick blue outlines, typeface looks like painted letters, words are also a vibrant blue] : WE'RE NOT COLD WE'RE NOT AFRAID! 'MINNE' TAUGHT US TO BE BRAVE! Caption: For the first time in weeks, I cried.

Here's a version all on one page #iceoutcomics #iceoutmpls #iceoutboston

First of four panels. Watercolor + pen, with digital lettering. Title: PARK STREET STATION By: Daniel Cole Mauleón #ICEOUTCOMICS #ICEOUTMPLS #ICEOUTBOSTON Panel 1: The panel is split nearly in half-diagonally. Top/Left is in various shades of blue and depicts a Metro Transit Blue Line Train, the train is bisected at the diagonal. Bottom/Right in various shades of gray is a Boston Green Line train. Caption 1 [Typeface is emulates handwriting, above the train]: I read that the light rail to the general strike rally in Minneapolis was so packed some people had to wait for up to four trains to pass before they could board. Caption 2 [Below the train]: A day later, I boarded a Green Line train in Boston to an emergency protest after Alex Pretti's execution.

Panel 2: Interior of a Green Line Train, in shades of gray. We're looking straight on at a row of empty seats. Caption: I easily found a seat. I tried listening in to learn if anyone one else was heading to the protest. Shalee and I had been back in Boston for less than a week. We had to keep reminding people that "no, our winter break in Minneapolis was not relaxing."

Panel 3: Interior Park Street Station, from the bottom of the stairs, and looking up and out of the station*. It is dark outside. The wide stairwell is empty, and the scene is colored in shades of gray. Four, spiked word balloons travel down the panel originating from outside. The balloons and tails are deteriorated, but they are colored bright blue. The text inside is also blue and blurred.

Panel 4: Exterior. Boston Commons. A crowd, in various shades of bright blue, gather in front for the Boston Common Tablet at the NE side of the park. The crowd wears winter gear and holds up (wordless) signs. The background is shades of gray, and the crowd breaks free of the panel borders, bleeding out to the edge of the image. Crowd [Balloons have thick blue outlines, typeface looks like painted letters, words are also a vibrant blue] : WE'RE NOT COLD WE'RE NOT AFRAID! 'MINNE' TAUGHT US TO BE BRAVE! Caption: For the first time in weeks, I cried.

#iceoutcomics
#iceoutmpls
#iceoutboston
#iceoutMN #iceoutMinneapolis

“Maybe I might have changed
And not been so cruel
Not been such a fool
Whatever was done is done
I just can’t recall
It doesn’t matter at all
You see it’s all clear
You were meant to be here
From the beginning…”
#comics #iceoutcomics #iceoutmpls #fromthebeginning

“It could have been me
in a wheel chair with no feet
it could have been me
trying to get across the street
It could have been me
living in the streets
It could have been me
with no food
on my table to eat…”
#comics #iceoutcomics #iceoutmpls #itcouldhavebeenme

“Unhand that gun begone
There’s no one to fire upon
If he’s holding it high
He’s telling a lie…”
#comics #iceoutcomics #iceoutmpls

“Hypocrite, all of you hypocrites
You’re gonna pay the price some day
Hypocrite, stinking hypocrite
Gonna pay the price some day
Words you speak from your mouth
But your heart is telling lies oh ho hypo -
Hypocrite, you better watch out…”
#comics #iceoutcomics #iceoutmpls #hypocrite #jimmycliff

I won’t believe for a second that things are suddenly “better”, not until the people themselves get to celebrate this icy winter melting away for good.
#iceoutwisconsin #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutminnesota #comic

“There are times that you can beckon
There are times when you must call
You can shake a ton of reckoning
But you can’t shake it all
There are times when I can help you out
And times that you must fall
There are times when you must live in doubt
And I can’t help at all…”
#comics #iceoutcomics

Baltimore rat to help in the fight, forever fuck ice

@actualkatherine.bsky.social 🐀 🧊
#iceoutofbaltimore #iceoutcomics

“When tragedy befalls you (ooh)
Don’t let it drag you down
Love can cure your problems (ooh)
You’re so lucky I’m around
Let my love open the door…”
#comics #iceoutcomics #iceoutmpls

“Stand up in a clear blue morning
Until you see what can be
Alone in a cold day dawning
Are you still free? Can you be?‘
#comics #iceoutcomics #iceoutmpls

As news media loses interest in Minneapolis, projects like #ICEoutComics are absolutely essential. I hope you'll regularly visit that hashtag and share those testimonies.