A small EU wrestler stands between two much larger opponents labeled USA and China. The central figure holds a book titled Crash Course Wrestling while the USA athlete extends an open hand and the China athlete raises a clenched fist. The scene shows the EU in a blue singlet with yellow accents between the two superpowers.
A young Black boy asks a white girl what she is doing for Juneteenth in Brown\'s 2025 piece. She answers catching up on some reading while sitting atop a stack including the Frederick Douglass narrative, Beloved, 12 Years a Slave, and Kindred. An optimistic depiction of cross-racial education as Juneteenth observance.
Pat Bagley's 2018 political cartoon portrays a giant black spider emblazoned with a red dollar sign and labeled 'Alden Hedge Fund,' sprawling across a dark web that ensnares multiple newspaper entities. Figures with hats, each tagged with names like Denver Post, Boulder Daily Camera, Mercury News, and St. Paul Pioneer Press, dangle helplessly in the web, symbolizing entrapment. The artwork uses media ownership satire to critique hedge fund influence, underscoring newspaper industry decline and journalism crisis. Dark, scribbled lines form the web, enhancing the ominous tone of this editorial illustration on predatory financial practices in media.
