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There’s more to Edel Rodriguez than his Trump illustrations.

The most famous political illustrator of our time tells his own story

BY Zachary Petit4 minute read

INSURRECTION.

That is the title of the first chapter in Edel Rodriguez’s graphic memoir, Worm. Rodriquez, an artist whose work has appeared on the covers of Time, The New Yorker, and many other publications, has established himself as the leading visual chronicler of the Trump era. Given the fact that Trump is now ubiquitous with the word, you might think you know what will follow on the next page.

But you’d be wrong.

Instead of Trump, the page displays a “ragtag army of bearded young men” descending upon a capital in January.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Zachary Petit is a contributing writer for Fast Company and an independent journalist who covers design, the arts and travel. His words have appeared in Smithsonian, National Geographic, Eye on Design, McSweeney’s, Mental_Floss and PRINT, where he served as editor-in-chief of the National Magazine Award–winning publication More


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