Subject: Media Advisory: POW! Fair Districts = Fair Elections Announces Comic Winner
From: Catherine Turcer <[email-masked]>
To: john podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 14:36:29 +0000

October 28, 2015
   Contact: Catherine Turcer, Common Cause Ohio, 614-579-5509

               Fair Districts = Fair Elections Coalition Announce
                      Activist Comics Competition Winners

   The Fair Districts = Fair Elections Coalition today announced the winners
   of the Activist Comics Competition.  First place with a cash award of $500
   goes to Columbus College of Art and Design student Samantha Archual with
   Gerrymander v. Super Nina.

                     Samantha's full Super Nina comic strip
                      can viewed at the end of this email.

   Eduardo Calzadilla placed second with his submission of Miss Fair vs.
   Guilty Gerry; and Catherine Fastenau came in third with Lady Justice.

   "I love all these entries, and am so excited to see these artists apply
   their creativity to make such an impact around redistricting reform," said
   Activist Comics judge and filmmaker John Wellington Ennis. "Each
   submission reflects empowerment and offers inspiring images to make this
   important issue real."

   Former state Senator Nina Turner (D-Cleveland) is featured in Archual's
   Activist Comic.  Turner was one of the legislators who voted to put Issue
   1 on this November's ballot.  Super Nina's  strip concludes by calling on
   us all to be redistricting reform heroes and vote "yes" on Issue 1.

   Sen. Turner said she was honored to be an inspiration for the winning
   artist.

   "Redistricting reform is one of the most important issues we can tackle,''
   Turner said. "It's my hope that Super Nina will inspire the voters of our
   great state to vote YES on Issue 1 so they all can be super heroes too.''

    "As an admirer or Nina Turner, I was thrilled to see her cast a real-life
   superhero, complete with a call to action, and so I pinned her adventure
   comic as No. 1," said Ennis, whose new book on street art, Where Else But
   The Streets, comes out this month on Rothco Press.   "But I might have to
   see about putting up Lady Justice and Miss Fair around the streets of Los
   Angeles...."

   Max Andrews of 3 Geeks Podcast was equally impressed by Archual's winning
   submission.

   "I liked that there was a full experience.  If you don't know what
   gerrymandering is, you begin to understand and you can follow along,"
   Andrews said.  "It's original and you can see the hard work."

   Other judges include the Columbus (OH) Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma
   Theta's Marjorie Robinson, Common Cause Ohio's Sam Gresham and Ohio
   Voice's Deidra Reese.

   "The top three superheroes fighting the Mighty Gerrymander were all women
   and redistricting reform has been promoted for years by real life heroines
   from the League of Women Voters of Ohio like Joan Lawrence," said Deidra
   Reese of Ohio Voice.

   Lawrence is a former Republican state representative from Galena who
   introduced redistricting reform legislation every session that she was a
   member of the Ohio House of Representatives for 16 years.

   Visual images have been essential to enhancing the understanding of unfair
   redistricting. Gerrymandering, or the manipulation of legislative
   districts for partisan reasons, is a term based on an 1812 political
   cartoon of a salamander-shaped district crafted by then Governor Elbridge
   Gerry.  Issue 1 on this November's ballot addresses state legislative
   redistricting reform.

   To learn more about Issue 1, visit [1]yesforissue1.org.

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