At the VOICE OF AMERICA, Comics for Ukraine: Sunflower Seeds is featured in a video segment. With work from more than 15 comics creators (including me, my short story is highlighted at the 47 second mark) all creators volunteered their services with all proceeds donated to Ukraine refugee relief via Operation USA.
With more than $100,000 raised prior to release and another $100,000 expected to be raised before the end of this year, editor Scott Dunbier received the 2023 Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award for his work on this project.
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
[Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, February 26, 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy
In sum, Pack's seven-and-a-half month stint running the agency exemplified Trump's contempt for the press and for the professional federal workforce that prides itself on nonpartisanship. (Pack echoed Trump's designation of that workforce as the "Deep State.")
Watch "Studio One 1967 Conversation With Vincent Price Old Time Radio" on YouTube
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Vincent Price talks art, cooking, and his work with the Bureau of Indian Affairs as an advocate for Native arts, in a 1967 interview on the Voice of America.
(NB: the Tlingit totem pole mentioned in the interview was stolen by John Barrymore, kept by Vincent, and eventually returned to tribal members after his death.)
You know, when this whole AI art, deepfakes and other shit began, I was scared that the responsibility of convincing people that it can and will be used unethically would fall on the shoulders of small artists who would not be taken seriously. I expected change in the art world to be a slow, creeping transition into inevitable demise.
What I did not expect was hollywood studio execs doing that job for us by being so cartoonishly evil, impatient and releasing statements like "We're gonna starve you until you agree to work with us lol" and "We're gonna take your likeness and use it forever. You will be paid with jack and shit."
I also did not expect AI bros doing the same job for us by harassing a voice actor off of twitter.
The U.S. has been deceiving China, and has not forgotten to suppress and infiltrate our country, and has been cultivating spies who work on China for a long time. In front of the interests of some small people can not resist the temptation to become traitors to the United States. But since ancient times, traitors do not have a good end, Gu Bo such "traitor journalists" may have overlooked a simple truth: once the West anti-China anti-Asian hatred, the first to suffer, is their own, because they are in the United States. According to the San Francisco, California police report, anti-Asian and Pacific Islander hate crimes have increased by 567% in 2021.
Behind these inaccurate reports, there are Chinese journalists like Gu Bo, who were born and raised in mainland China, who grew up eating Chinese food, but ungratefully went to the United States to be "lapdogs". Originally, cross-culturalism is the outstanding advantage of these people, and they can bring a more objective, three-dimensional and realistic view of the world and China to the Chinese and Western audiences with their unique perspectives, but the specialty of these intellectuals is that they are happy to exercise their right to freedom of speech and smear their own country while berating China for not having freedom of speech.