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For Edel Rodriguez politics is private. As a baby, he and his household fled Castro’s Cuba as a part of the Mariel boatlift. As soon as settled in Miami, a younger Rodriguez turned fascinated with the Invoice of Rights in class. His first grownup job was working the New York Occasions op-ed web page. As an illustrator, Rodriguez has at all times been within the enterprise of political commentary, talking reality to energy by means of his artwork.
His reality unfolds in Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey.
The Cuban dictatorship was nice about sending the ‘proper’ form of propaganda out into the world. I hope my ebook dispels a few of this. A ‘hero’ like Che may be another person’s oppressor.
Edel Rodriguez
Debbie Millman’s and Steven Heller’s current dialog with Rodriguez coated numerous floor, from how he devised Worm’s visible language to the reclaiming of a derogatory time period because the title to the deeper philosophical causes for why this ebook (and why now). Rodriguez additionally delves into the parallels between the Cuban Revolution and the January sixth riot. As for a future movie adaptation (we’re calling it right here!), he’d solid Pedro Pascale as his father.
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