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New to your work; found this via memeorandum. Love it! Thank you. :#) And neat that I've had a cartoon…
I thought that 25% tariffs on Mexico were off after the phone conversation where she told him to fuck off…
I thought that 25% tariffs on Mexico were off after the phone conversation where she told him to fuck off…
New to your work; found this via memeorandum. Love it! Reasons to not be cheerful: all of the above, plus…
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Author Archives: Ampersand
Cartoon: Why We Say “As A Jew”
This comic was drawn by Becky Hawkins, who writes: I wanted to draw this cartoon. I feel like whether and how much I’m seen as Jewish fluctuates depending on where I am and who I’m with, so the conversation about … Continue reading
Cartoon: Objective Journalism is Coming! Objective Journalism is Coming!
This cartoon was drawn by frequent collaborator Nadine Scholtes, who unlike most cartoonists (and by “most cartoonists” I mean “me”) is not afraid of drawing horses. This week, I read a newspaper report about sex workers at massage parlors. The article … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Media criticism
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Cartoon: The Birth Rate is Always a Crisis
“Teen mothers are increasing!” has been a common “everything is getting worse!” my whole life – until recent years, when “fertility is down!” has replaced it. Like this CBS News headline: “Experts sound the alarm on declining birth rates among younger generations: … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics
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Comic: Election Year, Squishy Progressive Style
This cartoon is less self-portrait than it is self-parody. ((Testing the footnotes plugin.)) It was conceived shortly after Joe Biden announced that he won’t be running for re-election, around when Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz, and like practically everyone else … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Elections and politics
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Cartoon: A Concise History of Keeping The Immigrants Out
[This post is written by Becky Hawkins.] This cartoon was born over gChat over a span of about 12 hours: Becky: It’s wild how every “neat old photo” from an aggregate account on social media will have some egregiously racist … Continue reading
Cartoon: The Objective New York Times
On August 8th, after about three weeks of the mainstream press, led by the New York Times, complaining repeatedly that Kamala Harris hasn’t been taking questions from reporters, Harris stopped on her walk to Air Force Two to take some questions … Continue reading
Cartoon: Announcing My New A.I. Comics Initiative!
After I finished this cartoon, someone on Reddit asked me if one of my previous cartoons was drawn by A.I.. So just in case, I’ll clarify: This comic is not really drawn by A.I.. The news that inspired this comic: Colin … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Economics and the like
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Cartoon: Conan vs Copyright
This cartoon was drawn by Nadine Scholtes. Popular cartoonist John Allison is a big fan of the character Conan the Barbarian, and was doing a Conan comic for fun in his free time, which you could read for free on his … Continue reading
It’s entirely possible I missed something. But looking at news stories from the last 24 hours, they don’t say anything…