Late Takoma Park Activist Walter Rave Remembered in Cartoon

Walter Rave, a prominent activist and longtime Takoma Park resident whose death following a December 2011 house fire led to a memorial tribute on Takoma Park Patch, was remembered in print again on Sunday.

This time it was in The Washington Post Magazine, with a graphic narrative by Art Hondros, a National Geographic production staffer and member of the DC Conspiracy, a local cartoonist collective.

In the narrative, Hondros dubs Rave "Fox Guy" for the fox pelt that Rave, an animal rights activist, always carried from a steel trap on a chain.

In an introduction to the magazine feature—titled "What 'Fox Guy' Had to Teach Us," Hondros said he did not know Rave, but often saw him walking in the Takoma Park neighborhood they shared.

Hondros contacted close friends of Rave's in order to sketch the narrative.

"He stuck solid to his principles against cruelty, even when he may have come across as unbalanced," Hondros wrote of Rave. "Such utter conviction seems rare, and it is hard to capture even in black-and-white."

Click here to read the graphic narrative in The Washington Post Magazine.

Click here to read how friends remembered Rave on Takoma Park Patch.