The Four Color Media Monitor

Wine Spectator wrote about a comic the leftist writer Steve Orlando developed with notable chef Jose Andres, and it appears it's being done partly for charity:

Veteran comic book author Steve Orlando’s first meeting with his new co-author, famed chef José Andrés, didn’t happen in an office or one of Andrés' restaurants. In typical Andrés fashion, it was in the middle of action, distributing food with Andrés' World Central Kitchen (WCK) in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael in Florida in 2018.

“Being on the ground with José, side-by-side and getting things done with him, [it allowed me] to put my own hands in the dirt,” said Orlando, whose credits include Wonder Woman, Spider-Man and Batman.

Andrés and Orlando’s new hardcover graphic novel, Feeding Dangerously (TKO Studios, 240 pages, $45), follows the growth of World Central Kitchen (WCK), Andrés humanitarian organization, which has distributed more than 300 million meals to communities in crisis, including in Ukraine, Florida and Maui. WCK receives a $5 donation for each book sold. Beginning with Andrés’ own journey to the United States, Feeding Dangerously goes on to recall many of the crises that inspired WCK's development, and the simple dishes that made the biggest difference.

Orlando's surely notorious for injecting his leftist political biases into his comics writing in the past decade. So let's hope he's now willing to take up a far better path. But if he and the chef he's working with have contributed to people who've suffered from Russia's war against Ukraine, might he be willing to contribute to Israelis who've been impacted by the Hamas bloodbath on October 7? Now there's something Orlando would do well to consider, if he's like to improve his image as a liberal.

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