Author Archives: Ampersand

Cartoon: Easy Ways to be Cancelled

If you like these cartoons, please support them on Patreon! Even a little bit unlikely anyone reads this can help! I wrote this cartoon in July of 2020, and posted a sketch on the Discord. Here’s what it looked like … Continue reading

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Cartoon: Capitalism can Innovate Around Anything!

If you like these cartoons, please support them! Each $2 pledge really helps! Do it or I’ll buy a puppy from a puppy farm instead of going to a shelter! This cartoon was inspired by a Paul Krugman column that … Continue reading

Posted in Capitalism, Cartooning & comics, Environmental issues | 1 Comment

Cartoon: The Purple People Next Door

This cartoon is by me and Kevin Moore. If you like these cartoons, please support them on Patreon! Each $2 pledge really helps us keep making new cartoons. Kevin’s comments on drawing this strip: The thing I got into was … Continue reading

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Race, racism and related issues | 3 Comments

Cartoon: Fiction or Qualified Immunity?

If you like these cartoons blah blah blah you know the drill. Support my Patreon! Qualified immunity is even more ridiculous than what’s in this comic strip. Chad Reese and Patrick Jaicomo succinctly explained “qualified immunity” in the Washington Post: … Continue reading

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Prisons and Justice and Police, Supreme Court Issues | 22 Comments

Cartoon: We Mustn’t Ruin HIS Life

This cartoon was drawn by Becky Hawkins. If you like these cartoons, you can help us make more by supporting the Patreon! Anytime a male student is accused of sexual assault – or even when discussing things more abstractly, like … Continue reading

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Rape Culture, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues | 51 Comments

How City Budgets Work

If you like these cartoons, help us make more by supporting the Patreon! Getting lots of $1 and $2 pledges is our business model. Also, I just used the term “business model” in a sentence. Life is weird. For at … Continue reading

Posted in Cartooning & comics, police brutality | 10 Comments

Cartoon: Owning the Libs Equals Victory!

If you like these cartoons, help us make more by supporting the Patreon! Supporters see most of my cartoons early – they saw this one back in November. I read a thread on Twitter by a woman whose father had … Continue reading

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc. | 5 Comments

Link Farm and Open Thread, Abandoned and Forgotten Edition

How an 11-Foot-Tall 3-D Printer Is Helping to Create a Community – The New York Times (And an alternative link, although the fancy photo intro won’t work there.) Printing out small but solid houses to be affordable housing in Mexico. … Continue reading

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Cartoon: Real America vs The Coastal Elites

This strip was drawn by Becky Hawkins. Help us make more of these cartoons! A $2 pledge goes a surprisingly long way. I was a bit surprised when Becky told me she was excited about drawing this one, because – … Continue reading

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Elections and politics | 2 Comments

Cartoon: How To Recognize a Drug-Seeker

If you like these cartoons, please support them! A $2 pledge really helps. Even for chronic pain patients who aren’t mistaken for drug-seekers, the possibility that they might be is always lurking. It can color all of a patient’s interactions … Continue reading

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