Ismael Loufti al Esad.
VERBATIM:
>> I’m from Ocala.
>> Oh, yeah. Oh,
>> Ocala.
Horse country. Yeah, there’s horses.
There are also people.
>> Yeah.
>> And they’re not the best. God bless Ocala, but they were, you know, they’re pretty pretty conservative..
>> ....as I performed it, you sort of I learned more and more about him.
And it’s an exploration of what he really was, what made him that way. And it’s about being genuine and and speaking truth even when you feel like people are going to think you’re crazy.
Yeah.
>> And saying things that you know could be scary to say.
>> You know, >> saying abolish ICE, saying free Palestine, saying things that could freak people out.
>> These are things that sometimes you got to do.
>> Stepping forward, especially as an artist would rather retreat.
>> Absolutely.
>> Yeah. It’s an amazing thing artists what what especially comics what we can do...