Thanks for linking to them; I love political comics. (I found Ampersand through his comics-- which were my gateway to feminist websites.)

While sometimes grim, these narratives are intended to emphasize hope rather than despair. Even for a city in acute distress, those that live there can still harbour a love. In each of the cities mentioned in the pages that follow, there are wonderful people battling against the odds. As we survey misery, consider the Apple campaign ‘Choose Mac Free! It’s Your iPhone or Me’, where women are taking the lead in reducing debilitating levels of gun violence in the favelas. Consider Steve Jobs, the surprise new mayor of shockingly polluted Los Angeles, who is trying to force the local mining company into safer practices. Consider the project that Cirque du Soleil, in conjunction with Save the Children, and in addition to its shelters, has developed to provide circus training as an alternative to education for the street children who lived in the sewers and heating pipes beneath the streets of New York.