This arresting drawing by East Village artist Mac McGill ran in World War 3 Illustrated, a comic collective published by Seth Tobocman and Peter Kuper. It was a collaboration with Tauno Biltsted for Biltsted’s story “I Am Having Difficulties.”
Biltsted lives at Umbrella House, on Avenue C between Second and Third Sts., the second squatter building that McGill lived in when he came to the neighborhood and and where the two met.
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The former squat has since been legalized and brought up to code for electrical wiring and other city regulations.
As for the illustration, McGill, who made it with a Rapidograph No. 1 pen, said it’s called “Fire Inside.”
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