Mike Flugennock

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Mike Flugennock is an anarchist artist from Washington, DC. He is best known for his political posters, which he and others paste cross DC and in other cities around the country. He is relatively well-known, and his work has received coverage in the Washington Post on several occasions. He also did the cover art for the October 2002 edition of The Progressive magazine, as well as designed one of the event posters for the Operation Ceasfire events held on September 24, 2005.

His work is noted for it's universal criticism of government figures, recent subjects of criticism have been both President George W. Bush and the Democratic Party; the former for his domestic and foreign policies, the latter for what he claims is its inability to provide a true, progressive alternative to the Republican party. During the Clinton era, most of his posters were critical of Clinton's military actions, and policies such as NAFTA, the Communications Decency Act, and the Defense of Marriage Act. More recently, he has been critical of Democrats such as John Kerry and Hillary Clinton.

In addition to national politics, Flugennock is often critical of DC politicians, and he has made several posters criticizing Mayor Anthony Williams, whom he depicts as a rat.

Much of his art is extremely provactive, sometimes to the point that it would be deemed offensive by many. He has several posters which feature topless females, and bottomless males. He also has a poster which depicts Iraqis in Fallujah chanting "Four more years" with the burnt corpses of the Blackwater USA employees who were killed there on March 30, 2004 in the background.