Garman Cartoons
The Editorial Art of Mike Garman has appeared in The Review, the SouthtownStar, Daily Kos, DuPage Democrat, Herald News, ChicagoNow and Vis a Tergo.
Garman is currently illustrating books of poetry and historical fiction.
He has been a proud member of The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists since 2008.
Karl Rove to get George Bush’s face on Mt. Rushmore by 2016
A Woody Guthrie notebook page, Coney Island, 1947. Guthrie had drawn and painted for nearly as long as he’d been writing and singing songs, a kind of lifelong visual diary. His works are full of freewheeling, hot-blooded, irreverent wit and big-hearted intelligence. As the man himself suggested, nobody could illustrate Guthrie better than Guthrie.
From issue 177, Summer 2006.
The shade of Mrs.Obama
Michelle Obamas Shade
From Adam Zyglis
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ALERT: Supreme Court to hear Baby Veronica case!
Former SD senator & principal Indian Child Welfare Act author Jim Abourezk stands behind the law. “The Indian tribes were being decimated by white social service agencies,” he says. He also agrees that Taliaferro and Schwab were targeted for “blowing the whistle about what was going on”. Read more:http://argusne.ws/SwwB0b
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“Oprah, Lance and the Eggman…”
“Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg” opens today, January 15, at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery (100 Washington Square East) and runs until April 6. The exhibit includes over 90 b&w photos, with portraits of Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs.
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“Kerouac portrays America as a planetary thing, a continent; until you are hitchhiking across it, it is easy to forget that we live on a piece of land with more surface area than Pluto.”
Read more of Robert Moor’s essay, “On the Road Again,” here.
For Dr. Elaine Goodman, the strongest lessons in patient safety didn’t come from her training. They came from her mother’s death. Goodman had just finished her first year of medical school when she found herself spending months at the bedside of her 63-year-old mom, who was battling breast cancer in the hospital. Nursing Home Inspect One morning she arrived to find her mother’s face and hands bloodied. Hallucinating and disoriented, her mom had yanked the cranial staples inserted during a recent procedure from her head. Another time, a stethoscope fell on her mom’s face and gave her a black eye. She suffered frequent falls and preventable side effects from drugs. And she narrowly missed having an unnecessary brain operation and getting an incorrect drug. “It was really eye opening for me to see the reality of how difficult it was to keep her safe in the hospital,” Goodman said. “It’s not enough just to have caring, qualified people to keep the patient safe.
