Featuring works by political cartoonist Richard Mock, “Politics in Print” explores the social and political issues he considered urgent in his time. Influenced by German Expressionism and Mexican Muralism, Mock used cheeky and bold humor to soften often serious subject matter.
Richard Mock (1944–2006) was a painter, printmaker and sculptor born in Long Beach, CA. He earned his bachelor’s degree assisted by a football scholarship at the University of Michigan, where he studied lithography and block printing. From 1980 to 1996, his political cartoons were featured in the New York Times Op-Ed page, as well as the Cartoonists and Writers Syndicate (founded 1978), garnering international attention. Simultaneously, he contributed to anarchist periodicals like “Fifth Estate,” “Alternative Press Review,” and “Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed.”