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husky mountain ash…

morning fog 

Mordechaj Anielewicz, leader of the Jewish Combat Organization during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, killed in action in 1943

Members of the Bielski partisans, an organization of Jewish partisans who rescued Jews from extermination in western Belarus. These guys lived in the fuckin forest for two years and saved 1,236 Jews during that time.

Members of The Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (United Partisan Organization), a Jewish resistance organization based in the Vilna Ghetto that organized armed resistance against the Nazis during World War II.  

Frumka Płotnicka, leader of the Sosnowiec and Będzin Ghetto uprisings.

Anyways that’s just a sample and all of the information I got from the Wikipedia page that you can refer to and find more badass Jewish defiance from WWII. Contrary to what the media will tell you, we weren’t just sad prisoners waiting for the “generous goyim” to save us. We fought back, and we fought back hard. Don’t undermine actual Jewish resistance through screencaps of Brad Pitt from a movie that frankly put more of a spotlight on the “generous goyim” who killed the nazis more so than “The Bear Jew”. 

Black History Month!

2017 note: Hey, guys.  With Black History Month just around the corner, I wanted to repost this so that teachers have a chance to print the (FREE) poster before February so that it can be used as a classroom resource if anyone feels like it might be worthwhile to have on hand.  Let your teacher pals know! 2016 edit: a lot of teachers and librarians asked if there was a poster for this that they could buy.  Nope!  This post was made as an educational aid and teachers oughtn’t have to pay anything to get it in their classroom.  So here’s a link to download the poster’s print file to print it yourself: https://gumroad.com/l/Exvau I did include the series in my recent art book 555 Character Drawings, so if you want it in a book with a lot of other stuff, that’s available, too. http://crogan.bigcartel.com/product/555-character-drawings-preorders

My favorite parts of history (as might be obvious from my choice of subject matter when making books) are the ones that fall into easily-categorized genres, genres with associated visual iconographies. This is the sort of stuff I loved as a kid: pirates, knights, cowboys, explorers, romans and Egyptians and flying aces. Stuff you could find featured in a bag of toys or a generic costume. For Black History Month, I thought I might visit some of these adventure-leaning periods and pick a few historic black people from those eras to draw, just for fun. If you’re doing a project or report in school this month, you could do worse than to tackle one of these toughies.  Feel free to share some of these with youngsters that you know.  And call them youngsters, they LOVE that.

(longer write-ups under the break)