Eco Comic

2 ECONOMIC MELT DOWN FUNNIES

EECCOONNOOMMIICC MMEELLTTDDOOWWNN FFUUNNNNIIEESS (December 2008) is a co-production of Jobs withJustice and the Institute for Policy Studies–Program on Inequality and the CommonGood. Visit us on-line at www.economicmeltdownfunnies.org.

Text by Chuck Collins & Nick Thorkelson Drawings by Nick Thorkelson

Thanks to: Sarah Anderson, Cynthia Bargar, Doyle Canning, John Cavanagh, DickCluster, Krista Hanson, Chris Hartman, Arthur MacEwan, Dedrick Muhammad, SamPizzigati, Susan Rice, and Francis Tobin.

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NNIICCKK TTHHOORRKKEELLSSOONN is a cartoonist and graphic designer, whose work has appeared inthe Boston Globe, Dollars & Sense magazine, and comics anthologies about SDS andthe IWW. He is working on a book-length comics memoir about his adventures in SanFrancisco at the end of the ’sixties. Website: www.nickthorkelson.com

CCHHUUCCKK CCOOLLLLIINNSS is an organizer and senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studieswhere he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He coordinates theWorking Group on Extreme Inequality (www.extremeinequality.org).

IINNSSTTIITTUUTTEE FFOORR PPOOLLIICCYY SSTTUUDDIIEESS:: Program on Inequality and the Common Good(www.exttremeinequality.org). The Institute for Policy Studies turns ideas into action forpeace, justice and the environment. We strengthen social movements with independentresearch, visionary thinking, and links to the grassroots, scholars and elected officials.The Program on Inequality and the Common Good focuses on the dangers that grow-ing inequality pose for U.S. democracy, economic health and civic life. The Programcoordinates the Working Group on Extreme Inequality.

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