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            <title>The Future</title>
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	Well, guys, I&#39;m done. At midnight tonight.
	
	I don&#39;t like being pushed out the door, but I&#39;ll be over it in a couple of days.
	
	I still don&#39;t understand why. The email I got was bizarre and vague, about the good old days. People have told me that Zimmerman explained my expulsion in the members&#39; only section. From what I hear, he&#39;s sort of saying that most members will be thrown out over the next 12 months, but he&#39;s murky about who.
	
	Drawger started up in the spring of 2006, and I was invited to join in July of 2006, so I was there in the good old days, and there were no more than two dozen people here. It was nice but it did change.
	
	In the years that followed, many people here enthusiastically sought new members, prominent names precisely because they would draw more attention to the site, attract more visitors. For the most part, I kept out of that. But I did post, not as much as a few other long-timers, but I posted a lot. Will other frequent posters be axed? Which ones?
	
	If what Robert says is true, then there are a lot of people who are going to be surprised when their memberships come due. I count 106 members now on the Who&#39;s Here page. Will 70 or 80 be axed? How should people behave if they want to stay? Will people be hungry to stay if there are only a small group of friends who occasionally goof on each other?
	
	It will be interesting if Robert follows through, because the number of members, and the number of page hits, and the number of comments -- none of them -- are very important in the grand scheme of things. It&#39;s his site, and he has every right to run it any way he wants. He can cut it down to 25, but he can also keep 105 people,&nbsp; whomever pleases him.
	
	He can keep prominent illustrators who post one joke a year; he can keep people who post an endless stream of pictures of the fabulous parties they go to.
	
	It&#39;s nothing personal.
	
	And all of you, come visit. My new blog is at http://zinasaunders.blogspot.com, but you&#39;ll need a legit email to leave comments.
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            <pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:10:39 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Goodbye Drawger</title>
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	I got an email late last night from the operator of this website that I am being kicked out because somehow my presence has taken the site away from his original vision. It seems that I&#39;m not alone, but he offers no clue about who stays and who goes, nor about, &quot;why us.&quot;
	
	I have mixed emotions about leaving this place. I know a lot of wonderful people who are currently members and count many of them as my friends. I have also seen a very nasty vibe develop over many months. It&#39;s especially nasty in the small and intimate setting know as the Speakeasy, a section I haven&#39;t visited in more than a year for just that reason. On occasion, it gets rough on the top level page, where people using phony names and plenty of the terminology peculiar to&nbsp; this place post asides and barbs, needling their enemies. It reminds me a lot of high school. But I&#39;m not alone.
	
	Aside from personalities, there are two issues that seems to weigh heavily on the minds of a small group of active members who I am willing to bet will survive these expulsions. I, too, feel strongly about them, but I draw different conclusions.
	
	1. I work for myself. I don&#39;t mean the business of illustration but the passion of art. I do what I do because I love it, not because it is a high-paying job. I have always spent time painting for myself, since childhood, long before I ever sought to get a commercial job, and I continue to do so. If this violates some kind of unwritten guild contract in some people&#39;s minds, then that&#39;s just too damn bad.
	
	2. I love to learn new things and to try new things. I was like that long before I met any of you. I&#39;m willing to work extremely hard, long hours, seven days a week in order to experiment with techniques and new materials. I&#39;m fortunate to have this quality because the publishing business is changing. It will change whether or not a bunch of illustrators cry in their beer and snipe at others.
	
	And, Robert, if you move anything of mine to this new &quot;robust site&quot; you mention, make sure you move this post.
	&nbsp;
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            <pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:38:11 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>New Animation</title>
            <link>http://www.drawger.com/zinasaunders/index.php?section=articles&amp;article_id=11420</link>
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	Be Careful What You Wish For ...
	
	Karl Rove thinks the Tea Party is the answer to his dreams and will do as he commands, but the Christine O&rsquo;Donnell genie might not be quite what he had in mind. That&rsquo;s the risk you run when trying to conjure up stupidity and hate and resentment -- you might just get it.
	
	Watch my latest animation on Mother Jones (here&#39;s the link) -- and turn up the volume for the super spooky soundtrack!
	&nbsp;
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            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:59:26 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Fickle Me</title>
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	I tend to love the piece I&rsquo;m currently working on best (that is after cursing it for the first half of its life), deciding that THIS is the way I want to work from now on. Lately there have been quite a few digicuts on my monitor, so I&rsquo;ve been most in love with working that way.
	
	Like the one above for The Wall St Journal of Hector Murguia, mayor of Juarez, Mexico.
	
	And this one for Golf World, for an editorial about the rules of golf:
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	And Archie Panjabi with her Emmy for her role on The Good Wife, Wall St Journal:
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	But then I get some assignments for painterly work and I fall back in love with that.
	
	Like this one of Manuel Ayau, Founder of the Universidad Francisco Marroqu&iacute;n in Guatemala:
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	And Yo-Yo Ma:
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	But just when I think I love doing the painted stuff best, I do a little animation, like this one on Mother Jones this week, featuring John Boehner&#39;s Pedge to America (here&rsquo;s a direct link to it), and I decide I love doing that best. Fickle me.
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:22:17 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Newt Rides a Racist Wave on Mother Jones</title>
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	Judging by Newt Gingrich&#39;s remarks pandering to the birther movement, he&#39;s trying to ride an undercurrent of racism back into power. But will it prove to be a riptide?
	
	It&rsquo;s in the MoJo Media box on the front page of the Mother Jones website, or here&rsquo;s a direct link to the animation (and yes, with sound!)
	&nbsp;
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:48:38 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>This Week’s Mother Jones Animation</title>
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	Reading The Tea Leaves.
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	What fortune lurks at the bottom of a teacup?
	
	It&rsquo;s in the MoJo Media box on the front page of their website, or here&rsquo;s a direct link to the animation.
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            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:06:21 EDT</pubDate>
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