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And thank you everyone who decided that Biden wasn't pure enough for you and stayed home: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/incoming-trump-team-is-asking-white-house-national-security-council-civil-servants-about-their-loyalty Incompetent NSC means…
_Railsea_ by China Mieville has ampersands as part of the story-- both text and symbolism. A genuinely weird surrealist novel.
Nobody, LOL! I honestly haven't run into that factoid before.
Gar, thanks! Any sharing is good sharing! My URL is on the image itself on the left border, so anyone…
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Author Archives: Ampersand
Cartoon: Why I Have Hope
This seemed like a good one to close the year out with. Happy New Year, Alas readers! I don’t have a cartoon syndicate and I’m not in newspapers. But I get to do this for a living because lots of … Continue reading
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Cartoon: Tragicomic Compromise
This cartoon was written by Rachel Swirsky, the much-awarded science fiction writer who also collaborates with me writing the scripts to the Wings of Fire graphic novels. This, by the way, is the second Shakespeare-themed cartoon Rachel and I have done together; … Continue reading
Cartoon: The Immigration Deal
Political discourse in the U.S. has become difficult, if not impossible, because right-wing views are so completely untethered from reality. I’m not saying left-wingers are immune to this – we’re not – but on the left it’s not as extreme or … Continue reading
Cartoon: Echo Echo Echo, Fox Fox Fox
There’s a timelapse video of the making of this cartoon – which shows how I began by drawing an entirely different cartoon (which I was really struggling with) before switching to this one, which even though it featured pretty much the … Continue reading
Cartoon: Personal Vehicle Arms Race
This comic was drawn by my most frequent collaborator, Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: I’ve been a bike-commuter for twelve years and in that time I’ve noticed the average vehicle size getting bigger. There’s something unnerving about waiting at a red light … Continue reading
Cartoon: Things Were So Much Better Then
This cartoon is drawn by Jenn Lee, who added so many great 1970s details! Jenn and I sometimes work sharing a table at a coffee shop, and she’d sometimes laugh aloud as she thought of more 70s details to squeeze in, … Continue reading
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Cartoon: The Criminalizing Homelessness Cycle
On Governing Magazine’s website, Thea Sebastian, Hanna Love and Tahir Duckett wrote: Criminalizing homelessness is bad financially and bad for public safety. Homelessness and incarceration have long been linked, as many people shuttle between jails, prisons, emergency rooms and the streets. … Continue reading
Ohio Passes School and College Trans Bathroom Ban
My alma mater Oberlin, and all schools and colleges in Ohio (private schools and colleges included) is going to be forced to ban trans students from using bathrooms aligned with their gender. The Ohio legislature just passed House Bill 183, … Continue reading
I apologize for my last comment. Trump's election is the fault of Trump voters and no one else (well, Putin,…