Wired.com’s blog Underwire has a gallery of Unemployed Man and his colleagues’ Halloween appearance at Occupy Wall Street:
The Superheroes versus Economic Supervillains smackdown was staged by Gan Golan, 37, co-author of the 2010 graphic novel The Adventures of Unemployed Man. Occupy Wall Street is a perfect stage for the book’s characters, a team of superheroes battling economic injustice….
Golan donned Unemployed Man’s custom orange-and-blue fetish costume for Monday’s event and joined others dressed as economic warriors from the book: undocumented worker Fantasma, student-debt-burdened Master of Degrees, Captain Generica and Wonder Mother. They waged battle against dark forces of the Just Us League, including such scoundrels as The Outsourcerer, Pink Slip and a the giant Slot Bot — part robot, part casino, with a head shaped like the New York Stock Exchange building and a menacing vacuum arm that hoovered up money.
Of course, Ramona Fradon penciled about 30 of the 80 pages of the Unemployed Man graphic novel, including the origin story of Wonder Mother, depicted by real-life working mother of two Betsy Richards above. Fradon grew up during the Great Depression, so it is somewhat poignant to think that even she has played some part in this widespread reaction against the Great Recession.