#dwayne booth

On today's episode, I talk to political cartoonist Dwayne Booth AKA Mr. Fish. For over 20 years, Dwayne has been creating political cartoons for publications like Harper’s Magazine, Truthdig.com, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones, The Advocate, and many, many others. In addition, he was an animated character designer for Bento Box Entertainment and is the subject of a 2017 award-winning documentary by Pablo Bryant called Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End. His books and collections include Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People, WARNING! Graphic Content, And Then the World Blew Up, Long Story Short: Turning Famous Books into Cartoons, and his most recent Nobody Left, which was published by Fantagraphics.

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Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish: Art – transcendent, transformative, revolutionary

Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain “Nobody Left: Conversations with Famous Radicals, Progressives and Cultural Icons” about the end of dissent revolution and liberalism in America. On this episode of “On Contact,” Chris Hedges talks to Dwayne Booth, aka Mr. Fish, artist and cartoonist, about the cultural requirement for revolution. Mr. Fish’s new book is “Nobody Left: Conversations with…

Mr. Fish: Cartooning From The Deep End (2017) reviewed by Jonathan Berk

Mr. Fish: Cartooning From the Deep End (2017) is a documentary screening at the 2018 Florida Film Festival. The film showcases Dwayne Booth, who is a political cartoonist who goes by the name Mr. Fish. His cartoons are controversial but often stab at the truth of many problems. The film depicts the struggles he encounters in his career as a result of the unrelenting honesty found in his art,…

Mr. Fish makes a big splash at Salem Film Fest

By Shelley A. Sackett

Producer Ted Collins, Mr. Fish and SFF moderator Debra Longo at the PEM post-screening Q&A.

  Dwayne Booth wears many hats.

  He lives in the Philadelphia area, where he is a loving family man and a popular lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

  For the last 25 years, he has also been known as Mr. Fish, the controversial and…