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Pamela Sztybel turned pandemic boredom into biting social commentary by sketching daily news headlines—each a tiny, time-stamped satire that went viral. From Merkel sipping wine to Mar-a-Lago’s grim reopening, her drawings turned chaos into art, helping strangers process the world’s madness. After pausing for a year, she resumed with raw, urgent sketches of Ukraine’s war, blending grief and activism. Now, her pen-and-ink portraits—like her “Good Trouble” series—channel humor as protest, rooted in her family’s history of fleeing oppression. Her art isn’t just observation—it’s resistance, one doodle at a time.

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