Issue #56 Animal Rights, Planet Wrongs

The collective at World War 3 Illustrated collective has addressed animal rights and environmental issues for decades, and in their latest anthology they explore the link between the two.

Issue #56 features an in-depth interview with leading animal rights activist and artist Sue Coe, illustrated with work from her sixty-plus-year career. Mike Diana—the only American cartoonist ever jailed for obscenity—turns his dark vision toward the obscene ways we treat animals, excerpts from Pulitzer Finalist Peter Kuper’s 2025 book Insectopolis, Jos Sances wordless masterpiece, Or  The Whale, the tale of biologist Dr. Gooley’s transformation into a rat activist, and a new work by Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell.

Here is the 2026 edition of the longest running political comics magazine in history, World War 3 Illustrated presents Animal Rights, Planet Wrongs. With over 230 pages of visually mind-blowing comix and stories by some of the leading political artists working today. The anthology also presents a first-person account of an early direct action against animal abuse, comics on factory farming and its alternatives, the story of the dramatic escape of forty-three Macaques from a North Carolina animal testing facility, and also examines urban liminal spaces and the creatures that thrive within their margins, women’s roles in early animal rights groups—and connections between animal rights and other major social movements.

Contributors include: Paula Hewitt Amram, Anna Bystran, Christopher Cardinale, Sue Coe, Gianluca Costantini, Scott Cunningham, Mike Diana, Eric Drooker, Peter Kuper, Linniers, Patrick McDonnell, Mac McGill, Fly, Kevin Pyle, Jos Sances, Jordan Worley, Marshall Arisman, Yuko Shimizu and many, many others.

Paula Hewitt Amram (Editor); Scott Cunningham (Editor); Peter Kuper (Editor); Jordan Worley (Editor)