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American comics anthology magazine

World War 3 Illustrated is an American comics anthology magazine with a left wing political focus, and subsequently produced by a collective with a rotating editorship. Other frequent contributors, mostly based in New York City, include Isabella Bannerman, Sue Coe, Scott Cunningham, Eric Drooker, Sandy Jimenez, Sabrina Jones, Mac McGill, Kevin Pyle, and James Romberger. 2011 marked the feature's 21st year in the magazine.

The magazine initially began as a home for comic book work and graphic/illustrated storytelling that was anti establishment and aggressively critical of the social and political right wing conservatism in ascension after the election of President Ronald Reagan. The late 1980s and 1990s saw an increasing diversity in both the number of new individual artists and writers contributing original comic book stories to World War 3 Illustrated, and a widening of the range in subject matter. The magazine has published a number of special issues on women/feminism, including Herstories (1992) Female Complaints (1999), Bitchcraft (2000), and Shameless Feminists (2021). In 2010–2011, New York's Exit Art gallery exhibited "Graphic Radicals", work from World War 3 Illustrated curated by Kuper, Tobocman, and Susan Willmarth celebrating the magazine's 30th anniversary. In 2014, the magazine celebrated its 35th anniversary. Issue #50, Shameless Feminists, published in 2019, featured contributions from Sabrina Jones, Trina Robbins, Lauren Weinstein, Monica McKelvey Johnson, and Sandy Jimenez, among others. In 2020 the magazine published a 220 page special issue titled "The World We Are Fighting For." World War 3 Illustrated has historically carried advertising of fewer than ten pages total per issue, and has ranged in total page count from 80 pages to 138 in recent issues of the last decade.

In the 1990s the magazine's distribution increased significantly, as Ruth Schwartz of Mordam Records took on the magazine's circulation fulfillment, ensuring that it would be present in outlets that already carried the notable music punk ‘zine Maximum Rocknroll. This distribution agreement took World War 3 Illustrated's issues international, as they were carried by Tower Records in all territories. The partnership with Mordam Records continued late into the 1990s, until World War 3 Illustrated handed its distribution over to Chris Staros of Top Shelf Productions and Diamond Comic Distributors. In 2017, AK Press took over publication of the magazine.

The magazine's look is greatly informed by the work of its original founders, and also the era and context in which the anthology was initially developed: the 1980s DIY culture and grassroots activism. Much of the earlier work was created for the magazine with an eye toward visuals that could be easily reproduced in other media, such as silk screened banners, posters, and T shirts. In the past decade, the magazine has increasingly published work that is more varied in its graphic approach, with increasing use of halftones, grayscaling, and fine linework alongside, the established hardline work and photocollage of years past. The magazine's logo, an image of a globe superimposed over a blazing matchstick, is indicative of the magazine's philosophy concerning the need for vigilance and recognition of perennial conflicts and systems of ongoing oppression all over the world.

Other contributors to World War 3 Illustrated include Peter Bagge, Fly, Spain Rodriguez, Art Spiegelman, Chuck Sperry, and Tom Tomorrow. Imprisoned activists and writers like Mumia Abu Jamal and embattled cartoonist Mike Diana have published work in the magazine.

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