I Illustrate The Problems Of Modern Society, And Here Are My Newest 30 Works
What are the things that bother you most about the world today? Is it the wars and economic problems made by powerful people that make others suffer so much? Is it the constant bickering and lack of empathy on social media? Or just the everyday injustices that don't get talked enough about? My name is Daniel Garcia, and I'm a professional illustrator that asks himself these questions all the time
I'm always producing new stuff, and after the success of my previous posts on Bored Panda, I've decided to show you yet another selection of my best works. As always, I'd love to know about your own questions, maybe I can do a drawing about it! What do you think is wrong with the world nowadays? Let me know in the comments! And also, click here, here, and here to see my previous articles!
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America And Guns
My family is more conservative, and we hate guns and want to repeal the second amendment. Not all gun haters are democrats, and not all gun supporters are Republican. Be careful with generalizations.
Load More Replies...There are a lot of people that don't understand the 2nd Amendment or it's purpose. It has nothing to do with hunting. It was created because our founding fathers understood their history and how people behave when they have too much power.
Legitimate question: What if the 2nd amendment really existed for the purpose of people having guns? Would that be OK then?
Load More Replies...It is NOT a republican thing, you guys have GOT to stop pitting eachother against eachother by divinding in two like that! It's a USA problem, and the only way it gets fixed is with unity, not by dividing the country into two (by political party) with each side blaming the other. That's a recipe for destruction and needs to end. It's insane to sit from the outside watching in as you fight eachother to the ground, each "side" blaming he other, even though you're ONE nation. It breaks my heart.
So why does one political party want to change it and the other doesn't? Goes against what you are saying. Sure, it's a USA problem but one party doesn't care about how many children die. After all the Republican party motto is "Save the fetus, murder the child."
Load More Replies...Truly. I feel as though we are being held hostage by a relatively small percentage of extremists and their lobbying entity. People wanting to pass legislation to keep military-grade weapons out of the hands of the average civilians are branded as un-American and a threat to freedom. Meanwhile, the school where I work received a mass-shooting threat this morning. Apparently the powers that be have decided that the threat is "not serious," whatever that means. So I am here, half expecting to be shot today. We are told that this is the price we pay for freedom. I would disagree, but I don't really want to end up on some half-baked, fully armed right wingers hit list.
Im sick of the hyperbole from both "sides". Gun violence is not a black and white issue. Many politicians on both sides of the aisle need gun violence to keep their jobs secure. The solution is difficult and expensive. Not anything politicians want to deal with. Guns will never be banned. It just wont happen. Even banning certain types because they look scary is stupid and pointless. A wooden stock Remington .308 can do far more damage than a MP15-22 but the MP15-22 is a black gun so its scary. We need to address the root causes of the violence before you can solve anything. People will just do other things to hurt each other. Solve the root cause of the problem and address the anger that is percolating everywhere. If anti gun advocates keep screaming for guns bans and gun advocates keep screaming for less laws, nothing will ever change.We need to do this ourselves. Report people who shouldn't own guns(if they do). Teach your kids the value of life and conflict resolution.
Let's take another look at this. What is causing the young man to want to shoot others? In the case of mass shooters, could someone have done something? This could tie in with a mental health issue
personal opinion a killers a killer if he took a life then he might wanna re think his
Load More Replies...I'm passionate about political, cultural, and human issues. With a long experience collaborating with more than 100 publications and companies in more than 22 countries, I believe in the transformative power of image in society.
The Money Machine
If it's any consolation, the fat cats responsible won't survive Doomsday. Even if they make it to their bunkers, they'll be delaying the inevitable because sooner or later they'll have to come out into a world that has no place for them, only anger and loathing.
... and eventually, they'll all be eaten by a Bronteroc.
Load More Replies...How about one where yuan are cranking out of the meat grinder? At least the U.S. is trying to do overcome some problems related to the environment.
Antisocial Media
It's not about Karen and Maga, even if this picture hints to that. It's highlithing a real problem: "Social" media are pure poison for our society and are splitting them and that is a problem for every single one of us! Everyone on FB, Twitter and so on has his bubble where they get their own opinion repeated and destilled wich leads to a society where having differnt opinons and being able to discuss them in a decent way becomes harder and harder untill s**t hits the fan and people storm the capitol or kill others because of a mask
"The eyes of Zuck are upon you, all the live-long day...." (sing it to the melody of the Texas state anthem) the-watchf...c22061.jpg
That's... Not the state anthem. The suggestion that it is just made an Aggie's heart explode.
Load More Replies...Screw this. Both sides are not equal. The people trying to kill other people are not equivalent of the people defending themselves. This artist can take a long walk off a short pier.
Society has always been made of inequalities. Despite progress, is it still divided between those with power and those without, those who have and those who have not? Those in power always try to portray the world as a fair place where everyone is equal. Many artists, including me, try to balance this by showing the issues and the hypocrisy that lies within the cracks of the system.
Tax Justice
Sadly dead on! We need to rise up and fight this - and we can. We are many, they are few.
But they know what they want, and we have been brainwashed with their s**t. It's not people who are failures, but the system. However, most middle class, and even lower class prefer to support the rich instead of helping each other. I'm too tired to write clearly. I hope you can understand what I mean
Load More Replies...As the rich squeeze us tighter and smoke away their beautiful vacations. Sounds like my landlord! Among others.. like the government
Russia, NATO And Innocent People
It's not even the general russian populations fault. Just some crappy politicians overinflated ego
Load More Replies...Another well-meaning, but misinformed person giving Russian propaganda a helping hand. Let me spell it out very clearly: NATO had absolutely nothing to do with this war. Russian unrestrained imperialism and western policies of its appeasement did. Stop white washing Russian complicity by spreading this “they attacked because of NATO” propaganda that stems directly from Kremlin.
B******T! Without the military equipment supplies, Ukraine could have been conquered by now... IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT? You want an entire country to be enslaved and assimilated by its power-mad neighbor just so that the war can end sooner? There is only one way this war can end, and it's by Ukrainian victory. Anything less than that would just postpone the conflict for 5-10 years before it erupts again.
Load More Replies...I have no method for choosing the specific issues or themes to portray, sometimes I draw inspiration from current news and events, and sometimes clients from publications commission me to illustrate a text and I’m free to come up with a conceptual idea.
Air Pollution
The World Is Melting
GUYS GET OVER YOUR LAZINESS AND STOP CLIMATE CHANGE! PLEASE ILL DO ANYTHING JUST STOP IT
American oil.. is that the ghost of Bush .. or what blue right older white man? Kind of cliche, but we're guilty
the world is not melting, we are making the only place where we can live inhospitable for ourselves and other species. The planet will recover but we’ll be long dead by then.
With invasive fish why don’t we put an injured one in a tank with carnivorous native fish so the fish get a taste for invasive fish……
Try to limit driving, try to limit time on devices, try to use the reseroom every once in awhile, try to turn off lights your not using, try to shower quickly, or dont use a whole bunch of bathtub whater, try getting solar panels (There great!), try to limit water use, try lanting back yard gardens and trees ( Backyard garden vegies and fruit are amazing!) try having house plants (Im not saying you have too, its just really easy and feels better to do these things, theres perks and fun in it -not really the device down time Lol- but the rest can be fun and give your more time to do other things!)
And be convinced that the common-person is the problem. Be brainwashed, harass each other, and feel extra guilty rather than realizing that mega corporations around the world are the main root of the problem. Sarcasm aside, if every person on Earth did as you asked that wouldn't equate to even one mega corporation's pollution but they've spread enough propaganda to make us their scapegoat.
Load More Replies...Everyone has a different way to see the world. Some people like what I do, and some really don’t, but if I can draw attention to the issues and most importantly, start a discussion, I’m already a happy person.
Political Chess
thank you so much for stating this problem! As a taiwanese I rly appreciate it ><
Fuel Poverty
There’s a shortage of fuel from the war and whatever, and that is showing the disparity between the developed countries that have plenty of electricity compared to the countries fighting or developed that don’t have enough.
Load More Replies...As I sit in my comfy climate controlled apartment, all bills paid, I do actually have a heart for those who can't afford heat.. or AC. Extreme temperatures can kill.. and with global warming and rising energy costs, it's sadly good to get worse
I do see my illustrations as a form of activism but I also try to make responsible choices in real life as a consumer and a citizen to be part of the solution. I don’t see the need for balance between the artistic expression with the advocacy aspect because for me they are not conflicting ideas, just different pieces of a whole.
Many people say art shouldn’t be political, just pleasant. That’s not true. Art, like life, can be anything you make out of it.
Teamwork
Sadly a lot of people are not very good at teamwork
Load More Replies...Writer's Block
Ok but seriously. Blank pages: terrifying. It's like an empty vacuum that needs to be filled with words, and YOU need to fill this impossible vacuum. Writing is difficult.
Diabetes Around The World
Wow. I used to think I was alone in this world and I was the only diabetic but now I know I’m not alone, I’m not weird, (well I am weird just not bad weird) and people are just like me! (T1D since 4)
Load More Replies...(This may not be 100% accurate, this was just from a poster I saw!) There are four main symptoms of T1D, going to the toilet a lot, always being thirsty, always being tired, and looking thinner, hope this helps!
Gun Control
Well it’s like (I guess) some people lives’ hope (dunno how to say it’s not my first language) are thin and it’s endangered because of guns (mostly if they live in the USA. Also btw it’s probably just that your finger slipped, but it’s *explain. Sorry for sounding like a douchebag!!!
Load More Replies...And yet, that's a military style weapon! Instead of gun control, it's how much money US govt pours into arming the military.. so a little girl is able to go out on swings.
Smartphone Fights
Neither of them especially smart if they didn’t put on half their armour.
This apple vs android fight confuses me. I cannot find where I care about what phone someone has.
"Peace Loving" Putin
Trump as a martyr would be far worse than what he actually is -- a mentally challenged incompetent who shows more and more signs of deterioration every day. His decline and fall must be such that no one can claim that the Democrats (or "the woke crowd", or any other group) engineered it.
Load More Replies...I look forward to the day we see him swing from the gallows with his friends Soloyev, Simonyon, Skabeyeva, peskov, that horse face guy, Navalny and Girkin/strelkov. Russia must be crushed. The west dropped the ball in 1991. they knew this would happen but Merkel wanted cheap gas so she opted to welcome putin with open arms. Mutti you screwed up. I cant wait for Georgia, Ukraine, Syria, and the rest of the soon to be ex russian empire to be free.
"Let me into your country... so that I can save you from what I'm going to do to you and your people, if you don't let me into your country." - Putin, 2022
I fixed your downvote since this was clearly a joke.
Load More Replies...War Crimes
How did you afford this ring that I love honey?
Load More Replies...Why didn't we see this with bush, obama for the 10 years they had blood on their hands?
Good god! There's all sorts of politicians & world leaders with blood on their hands and the artist chose to focus on a current major criminal for one depiction. If you so badly must see something similar with Bush and Obama, THEN CREATE IT YOURSELF!
Load More Replies...Paper
beat me too it. its the greatest book of all time.
Load More Replies...I think I can explain the reference: the father was a very serious man and didn't look pleased to be spending money on what he would have, according to the father of the pilot would have done. I believe this would be a memory of the author when he drew the picture and then asked the adults if they were frightened by it. I believe we're looking at a snapshot of the pilot's memory.
Unfortunately, I just see trees killed.. I love seeing children draw, but the amount of paper still generated through government and organizations is just absurd. Please go paperless if possible, email or text receipts to you.. I've done this and glad I did
Arms Race
India doesn't run like this for money! It runs faster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Yogi ji runs behind someone then that person runs even faster than India.... Wish you understand
Load More Replies...strange, no Europe or American countries, ooh those are the ones who sponsor this Olympiad
Social Media Is Dead
honestly... this would be more fitting if it was twitter instead of facebook, given muskrat is basically ruining everything
Let's go back to people actually making their own sites, with whatever they want to be in them. Hobbies, family, anything you like. Buying webspace is very cheap and you can still get free sites.
Covid & Asthma
I thought the picture was meant to show, that people who used medicine against asthma were protected against Covid. That is what happened to me, as I wrote above
Load More Replies...This seems to work. I have asthma and was tested positive with Covid. I never felt anything. I was only tested, because the school where I work demanded it.
Not sure why you were down voted take one from me!
Load More Replies...Long Covid
I have autoimmune diseases. Basically I have no immune system.Went from March 2020 until October 2021 isolated and masked anytime I went out. I caught COVID19 on Oct 8,2021. Right now I am at day 10 of my THIRD case of COVID and the flu combined this time. I can't catch enough time between to get fully vaccinated. But at least this time I have 2 vaccines under my belt which means I can get the Evushield. Antigen infusion. But what really scares me....is that Monkeypox can be transmitted on surfaces and by sneezing/coughs...nobody masks up anymore and there are seldom wipes to disinfect carts at stores
I am so sad to hear you have to go through this. Definitely bring some sani wipes when shopping. Go out on Tuesdays. Stores are usually dead on Tuesdays. I hope and pray that everything will go better for you. That sick people will bot be around you like that.
Load More Replies...long covid survivor here... biggest symptom: endless fatigue... now seem to have caught this month's variant... come on, immune system, go to work for me! Not done yet, much & many things left to do & lessons to learn... not quite ready to check out just yet...
Eat Healthy
The tree died because it didn't "eat" apples? Or If you only have one lung, A. You can still get pregnant B. Eat apples! They're good for you. Or Skinny, fat or pregnant, apples are good for you! (I'm just not getting this pic! Lol!)
Hypertension
This is what happened to my husband last year. Massive stroke followed by a massive heart attack and brain death. Major contributing factor? Hypertension. He was only 48 years old and was the picture of health on the outside.
Ticking time bomb.. hypertension puts one at risk for so many things.. including the biggie - STROKE
Genetics
The advances in genetics promise so much in the way of curing genetic disease, but like with many other scientific advances someone may find a way to abuse it.
Let me correct your statement: someone WILL find a way to abuse it. And to make money out of it. Millions and millions. And to improve just a few people's lives while creating the basis for even more discrimination and misery.
Load More Replies...Vaccine Inequality
The terrible thing about the inequality is. It allows Covid to mutate a lot in countries, that have not been able to vaccinate their people, and return to us in a new form, that we are not vaccinated against.
Don't mean to sound dense, but who's not getting vaccinated that wants to? The city I live in, they're still giving them no charge
I always wondered if there would have been so much anti-vaccine propaganda and so much reluctance to get vaccinated if the vaccine had been rare or difficult to obtain or therefore limited
Covid & Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is still one of the major causes of death in the world, and yet we don't talk about it much. We don't *hear* about it much, and in large part that's because we have ground it down some in first world countries. It isn't eradicated anywhere, though you're far more likely to see it in 'advanced' countries like the U.S. if you spend time in low income areas, high drug traffic areas, detention facilities, homeless shelters or living on the streets, or in areas with larger populations of immigrants (still more along income lines though). It is wrongfully assumed to be an illness of the past, and it is very much an illness of poverty. COVID is the modern bugbear and the (rightful if temporary) frenzy around it obscured any attention that TB might have gotten, as in the short term it usurped its place as #1 in global deaths from infectious disease. It will switch back to #1 again soon, as we find ways to handle, avoid & treat COVID. Tuberculosis kills about 1.5 million people every year and has been a major cause of death for hundreds and hundreds of years, if not millennia. A lot of things shield our knowledge of its widespread impact.
Load More Replies...Refugees
The image refers to the migration crisis at the Poland-Belarus border
Ah, hence the colours of the Polish flag: thanks.
Load More Replies...In the US, sure but the US isn't the only country in the world. And fair emigration laws are all but non existent.
Load More Replies...Fúck you, Texas!! 1000 times, fúck you!! (Go read about their razor wire wrapped buoys, many of them sunken and hidden under the water to ensnare migrants, along the Rio Grande.).
"Peace Loving" Putin
The sickle and hammer has no business here, Russia today is a literal oligarchy which is about as far from communism as can get
How We Sleep
A lot of the comforts that we rely on come from exploited populations and countries in Africa
Load More Replies...Psychology In Sports
KICK THE BALL THE GOALIE IS GONNA LOSE IT IF YOU JUST STAND THERE
Cannabis And Bitcoin
Transgenders And Covid" To "Transgender Healthcare During Covid
Just to clarify, this image is about "Transgender Healthcare during Covid", sorry about the confusing title!
Hey! Great article, but please say "Transgender people" rather than "Transgenders" as a plural. Trans/Transgender is an adjective. We are still people and we are more than just trans :)
Load More Replies...It's exactly like corporate handbook art and it's very obvious some images were just drawn over digitally. It's like if a corporation pretended to care about your political views for upvotes.
It's exactly like corporate handbook art and it's very obvious some images were just drawn over digitally. It's like if a corporation pretended to care about your political views for upvotes.
