THORKELSON

elcome to the Thorkelson Graphics web page, featuring examples of my comics, illustration, and graphic design work (my name is Nick Thorkelson). Here are a couple of new things: my book, Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia: A Graphic Biography, was released in April 2019 and it's available at your local comics-friendly bookstore, or you can order it from the publisher, City Lights. With a foreword by Angela Davis, this comic recounts the life and times of Marcuse, a philosopher whose work inspired millions (and elicited death threats from the Ku Klux Klan) in the context of the cultural and political ferment of the 1960s and ‛70s. A decline in his notoriety and his popularity coincided with the decline in liberationist dreams during the Age of Reagan, but my editors (Paul Buhle and Andy Lamas) and I are trying our best to remedy that situation with this book... And here are some new images-paintings and drawings-that I created in Yelapa, a car-free community off the Bay of Banderas..

Primary location: Boston United States