Collected Comix 2012 – 2017
Here are free links to most of the comics I’ve written over the last five years — graphic journalism, memoir, and straight toons — published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nib, Truthout, The Los Angeles Times and more. Thanks to all the wonderfully talented graphic journalists/artists I’ve worked with thus far: Josh Neufeld (cover image by Josh!), Jason Novak,Marc Parenteau, Erik Thurman Dan Carino, Dan Archer,Peter Glanting and Arthur King. Right now, I’m at work on a book-length graphic memoir focused on being a father while living with brain cancer, building on the some of the work published here (contact at bottom). CLICK ON THE TITLE TO ACCESS THE COMIC!
Philosophers at Theme Parks with Jason Novak in the New Yorker’s Daily Shouts
Graphic Essay: Betsy DeVos’ ‘School Choice’ Movement Isn’t Social Justice. It’s a Return to Segregation. With Erik Thurman for Fusion (now Splinternews)
No Shame in Staying Alive: How Medical Marijuana Helped Saved Me from Brain Cancer with Marc Parenteau at Fusion
A Scanner Constantly with Josh Neufeld at Pacific Standard
Notification: You’ve Got Cancer with Josh Neufeld, at The Boston Globe
Pink Ribbon Envy: Living with an Uncool Cancer (with Dan Archer, and Medium’s The Nib)
Children of the Code: Big Data, Little Kids with Dan Carino, at Truthout
The Perfect Cancer Patient with medical sociologist Gayle Sulik and Marc Parenteau at Narritve.ly. CLICK HERE FOR AN Extra Scene, not published in the original!
This School Is Not A Pipe with Josh Neufeld, at Truthout
The Teacher Ghetto with Jason Novak, at The Atlantic
Playground Purgatory with Jason Novak at The Boston Globe
What’s After Post-Truth? with Jason Novak in The Awl
House-Hunters Interdimensional with Jason Novak at The Nib
The Internet of Living Things with Jason Novak at The Los Angeles Times
The War on Everything with Jason Novak at The Los Angeles Times
Lesser Known Cabinet Positions with Jason Novak at The Boston Globe
Mythical Beasts of 21st Century Technology with Jason Novak at The Boston Globe
The Google Succubus
Modern Day Patron Saints with Jason Novak at The Awl
It Came From the Comments Section! with Jason Novak at The Awl
Board Gaming The System (with Jason Novak for the Peabody Essex Museum’s (Salem, MA) Playtime Exhibit).
The Game of Artificial Life
Magical Thinking: The Unraveling
Walls and Fences
The Gates Education Reform Hype Machine and Bizzare Inequality Theory (with Dan Carino, at Truthout
The Disaster Capitalism Curriculum: The High Price of Education Reform (Episode 1) (with Dan Archer, at Truthout)
Murky Water: The Education Debate in New Orleans (with Dan Archer, at Truthout)
The Finnish Alternative: Reclaiming Public Education From Corporate Reform (with Dan Archer, at Truthout)
Trump Universe with Peter Glanting in Project Censored 2018 (Seven Stories Press)
For inquires: adam.bessie@gmail.com
Martin Luther King Jr.’s March Against Tenure…
… didn’t happen. But reading the hyperbolic post-Vergara cheering from Michelle Rhee and others, one would think he did, with vigor.
Here is my reply to San Jose Mercury News editorial “Vergara decision quantifies the harm done by inadequate teachers” the home paper of Silicon Valley billionaire David Welsh who financed the case. I posted mine in their comments, and invite you to engage in dialogue as well.
“We are likely to find that the problems of housing and education, instead of preceding the elimination of poverty, will themselves be affected if poverty is first abolished.” – Martin Luther King. Jr.
Despite the excellent, heart-rendering spin, the Vergaga suit is not civil rights. It’s not Brown v. the Board of Education.
Can one imagine Martin Luther King, Jr. walking arm in arm with billionaires against middle-class teachers rights?
Talk about theatre of the absurd.
King would be marching against the great inequality in CA, which is #1 in poverty and has the most billionaires. Nowhere is this inequality greater than in Welch’s own backyard of the Bay Area (and Silicon Valley in particular).
Poverty is the real civil rights injustice visited on children – not due process for teachers.
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PHOTO: The Revolution Will Be Monetized
The Revolution Will Be Monetized! With Che Guevara – the American Spirit.
Photo by Adam Bessie in Munich, Germany. 2013.
Diane Ravitch, Adam Bessie, and the Folsom Street Fair…
I had the honor of having lunch with Diane on her book tour for REIGN OF ERROR near her hotel in downtown SF. While lunching, we randomly met up with author David Sirota (http://www.davidsirota.com/) to talk education politics, along with the ever articulate and insightful Anthony Cody (http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/).
As if to (leather) cap off a fully San Francisco-esque day, a steady stream of fully-chapped, mustachioed gentlemen flowed by, bound to the annual Folsom Street Fair, an annual celebration of BDSM culture.
It was a fully uncensored experience.
Leather aside, this is the second time I’ve had the good fortune to meet with Diane, and both times, I’ve been struck by her absolute devotion to providing all children the education only our most privileged children receive. Unlike the corporate reformers, who clad themselves in the pleather trappings of social justice and equity, Diane is truly committed to the institution of public education, for the enrichment not of corporations, but of democracy, and humanity.
She is a hero for those of us who still believe in the promise of public education.
You can buy or download her book at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Reign-Error-Privatization-Movement-Americas/dp/0385350880
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