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(he / him) graphic designer / illustrator, content wrangler, cooperator https://pdbowman.studio

Photo with parking area of county government offices in background, thumb and finger holding an ‘I Voted Today!’ sticker in foreground.
A performer (not visible on camera) sings and plays guitar to a crowd gathered for a No Kings demonstration in Winchester, Virginia. The song is a parody of John Lennon’s “Imagine.”
A view of people gathered at a No Kings protest demonstration on a sunny weekend afternoon, mostly turned away from camera toward someone speaking from a centrally-positioned presenter platform, in Winchester, Virginia’s brick-paved “old town” pedestrian street area.
A partial screenshot from a Google News headlines-aggregation page for stories on economy and trading, reading “The Times. ‘Absence of clarity from Trump spreads fear through markets.’ 3 days ago. By Patrick Hosking,” with headshot of a balding white man of late middle age.
Screenshot of a Google News aggregation page with links to newsmedia items on military actions in Iran — top headlines reading: “Hegseth: ‘We didn’t start this war but under President Trump we’re finishing it’” (NPR); “Top U.S. general says it will take time to achieve Iran war goals” (Axios); “Hegseth: This is not a so-called regime change war” (CNN); “‘We didn’t start this war but under president Trump, we’re finishing it,’ says Pete Hegseth – US politics live” (The Guardian); “More losses expected, ‘not a single overnight operation,’ Caine says” (6abc Philadelphia).
A Virginia elections campaign SMS message with image showing a smiling Black woman flanked by two smiling white men and the words “Vote for Winsome Earle-Sears for Governor. John Reid for Lt. Governor & Jason Miyares for Attorney General. NRA-PVF Endorsed,” followed by text reading: “Hi, I'm Sarah with NRA-PVF. Early voting for the Virginia General Election begins this week! Be sure to elect Winsome Earle-Sears for Governor, John Reid for Lieutenant Governor, and re-elect Jason Miyares for Attorney General on or before Tuesday, Nov 4th. Paid for by National Rifle Association of America Political Victory Fund, FPAC-17-00608. Not authorized by a candidate.”
A screenshot of a political campaign text message from the 2025 Virginia governor’s race reading: “This is spiritual warfare. It’s Winsome Sears. I wrote a reflection on Isaiah 59:19 for your review. Please read it here: win-26.co/i7v3ks”
screenshot of a now deleted Bluesky post by Senator Elissa Slotkin, reading: ‘We are in an AI race with China right now. The last time we were in such a race – with Russia on nuclear technology – we won because we set up the Manhattan Project. We need that level of ambition again, for the modern age.’
A screenshot of a Google News news-story aggregation page with links to five articles: AP News, “Israel targets and kills Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif as toll worsens on Gaza journalists;” Al Jazeera, “Israel kills Anas al-Sharif and four Al Jazeera staff in Gaza: What we know;” NBC News, “Israel kills 5 Al Jazeera journalists in airstrike, claiming on worked for Hamas;” CNN, “Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strik on Gaza – live updates;” New York Times, “Israeli Strike Kills 4 Al Jazeera Journalists, Network Says.”
A screenshot of a Google News story/topic feed, with headlines reading, sequentially, “Millions in US expected to protest against Trump in ‘No Kings’ demonstrations” (The Guardian), “Trump, Who Has Likened Himself to a King, Bristles at ‘No Kings’ Protests” (The New York Times), “Watch livestream: ‘No Kings Day’ protests set for hundreds of US cities” (USA Today), “Opinion | Diminishing Protest Returns” (The Wall Street Journal), “Millions of protesters are expected at ‘No Kings’ rallies nationwide as President Trump’s military parade takes place on his 79th birthday” (CNN).
A partial screenshot image of an email sent from LinkedIn’s notifications system to Paul Bowman, showing the email’s subject line, “Paul Darron, congratulations on 16 years with LinkedIn!”
A partial screenshot from a web browser view of a user’s Google News homepage feed. Of three linked articles under the “Energy” news subject heading, the third is a post from the website of the right-wing policy org the Gatestone Institute, titled “Europe: The Fall of the Holy Renewable Empire,” by Drieu Godefridi.
Partial screenshot of the web-browser view of a page from the website of National Public Radio. The page is for an NPR report on harm to consumers in the market for single-family residential solar panel installations, with the title “The Dark Side of Rooftop Solar.”
A screenshot of my Google News feed from morning of Thursday, September 5, showing the first feed grouping of ‘Top stories,’ four headlines about a firearms mass-killing at a high school in Georgia the previous day. The third headline of the four, from CNN, has the headline ‘From Algebra 1 to Barricading Doors: How the Georgia School Shooting Unfolded.’
A screenshot of a tweet from Anti-Defamation League executive Jonathan Greenblatt reading: “Why does former President Trump feel the need to specifically call out that Governor Josh Shapiro is Jewish? Why does he feel compelled to falsely tell the world that Gov Shapiro ‘has done nothing for Israel?’ This election should be about issues, not identity. The campaign should be about debating policy not invoking prejudices.”
A screenshot of my Google News feed from afternoon of Saturday, August 17, showing the first feed grouping of ‘Top stories,’ four headlines about policy ideas advanced by Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. The highlighted feature article, from Fox Business, has the headline ‘Former White House Economist Warns Harris’ Agenda Could “Shut Down” th…” (headline displayed incompletely). The other three headlines are, in order, “Cracks in the Wall of Media Praise for Harris? Multiple Outlets Eviscerate VP over Price Control Plan” (Fox News), “Opinion | The Times Demand Serious Economic Ideas. Harris Supplies Gimmicks.” (Washington Post), and “Harris’ Plan to Stop Price Gouging Could Create More Problems Than It Solves” (CNN).
screenshot text: “But frantic political maneuvering in the days that followed saw Macron’s team and leaders of parties on the left muster their forces in a national effort to thwart the far right. Hundreds of candidates on the left and center of French politics pulled out of the contest to avoid splitting the anti-Le Pen vote. Their initial aim was to stop Le Pen’s party winning an outright majority, which seemed a likely outcome a week ago. Instead their efforts may have handed the initiative to the other extreme of French politics, the far left. ”
Screenshot of Google News ‘Local News’ panel for a Google account with Chicago address. Of three headlines offered, the first reads ‘Recap: 1 year of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, watch out in Year 2.’ No publisher identification appears with the headline.
In foreground, cartoon figures of a steel-nib dip pen and a square-bottomed india ink bottle, Cartoonist Co-op mascots “Nibford” and “Inkling,” are side by side, to viewer’s left and right respectively. Both have anthropomorphic limbs and large round cartoon eyes. Nibford, the pen, makes a heart gesture with their hands. Inkling, the ink bottle, has a heart-shaped speech balloon coming from them with the words “Nothing to lose, Loves, but Chains” appearing in it, written in something like a 19th-century standard English script style. The two figures are superimposed on a flat red background with a large raised-fist-symbol drawing, as if made with chalk, discernable behind them. The fist holds a rose.