PLANET ERSTWILD host James Moore speaks with illustrator/animated editorialist Zina Saunders, whose work appears weekly in Mother Jones magazine. Her work has been published in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, Wall Street Journal, Utne Reader, and many more. She creates editorial animation
s riffing on the political news and current events of the week.
Click on Zina's pic for this week's Mother Jones animation, where Charles Koch is the magic man in the mirror, exhorting a poor schnook to protect the rights of his exceptionally American future billionaire self by voting against raising taxes on millionaires and billionaires.
Overlooked New York is Zina's collection of portraits and interviews with ardent New Yorkers about their joyous obsessions. These are real New Yorkers who have found fascinating ways to unleash their joy on the roofs and rivers and parks and streets of New York.