Author Archives: Ampersand

Cartoon: Another Reason College Conservatives Are Afraid

Help me make more cartoons by robbing a bank and pledging all the money to my Patreon! A couple of studies have found that conservative students are more likely than liberal students to say that they’ve self-censored on campus – … Continue reading

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Cartoon: Touch My Face, Dammit!

If you like these cartoons, help us make more by supporting my patreon! Every dollar of support goes directly to neighborhood goats who eat them and poop out sustainable rainbows. I sometimes read forums for disabled people (ones that are … Continue reading

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Link Farm and Open Thread, (accidental) TBA Edition

We asked Texas Republicans banning books to define pornography. Here’s what they told us. Sex Isn’t Binary And Immutable, But It Wouldn’t Matter (For Trans Rights) If It Was | by Katy Montgomerie | Mar, 2022 | Medium Cancel Culture … Continue reading

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Barry interviewed on “Where We Go Next”

I was interviewed by Michael Callahan on Where We Go Next! This is a long interview (a bit over an hour and a half!), focused on cartooning, comics and craft. I had so much fun doing this one.

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Cartoon: Centrists

This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. If you like this cartoon, help us make more by supporting my Patreon! It’s what Uncle Sam, Mother Earth, and three out of four earthworms want you to do. To be fair, … Continue reading

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Cartoon: How The 2nd Amendment Saves Us From Tyranny

If you enjoy these cartoons, help us make more by supporting my Patreon! Supporting my Patreon will make you taller, better looking, improve your posture, and small children and dogs will stop hating you quite so much. This cartoon’s gag … Continue reading

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Cartoon: The Constant Cacophony of Cancelling Cancel Culture

If you enjoy these cartoons, help us make more by supporting my Patreon! This particularly rapid unintelligible patter isn’t generally read and if it is it doesn’t matter. This is one of my occasional cartoons written and drawn (relatively) quickly … Continue reading

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Cartoon: Trans People Just Don’t Listen

A cartoon by me and Becky Hawkins. Help us make more cartoons by supporting my Patreon! Here at Barrypatreon headquarters, we will serve no sheep before it sleeps and brew no glue before it’s true. When I think about how … Continue reading

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Link Farm and Open Thread, Squirrel Face Edition

My friend PH Lee’s short story Just Enough Rain has been nominated for a Nebula Award! Congrats, Lee! Millions of Angry, Armed Americans Stand Ready to Seize Power If Trump Loses in 2024 Disturbing. Not surprising, but disturbing. Transgender Teens … Continue reading

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Cartoon: The News Could Not Be Any More Objective

If you like these cartoons, please help us make more! This cartoon was drawn by the one and only Kevin Moore! Hello from the east coast!  When I originally wrote these words (in December 2021), I was in upstate New … Continue reading

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