Category Archives: Cartooning & comics

Cartoon: Doctor Austerity

Posted on March 13, 2019 by Ampersand

Help me keep drawing cartoons! Support my Patreon! A $1 pledge really matters to me. Austerity – the policy of cutting government social spending in order to appease fiscal hawks (and investors and creditors) – is arguably the most harmful … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Economics and the like | 5 Comments  

Cartoon: Inheriting The Economy

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Ampersand

This cartoon was drawn by Becky Hawkins. who I’ve collaborated with several times before. Help me make more cartoons: Support my patreon! A $1 pledge really helps. Becky and I started work on this comic in December of 2014. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Economics and the like | 2 Comments  

Cartoon: The Five Stages Of Finding Out Your Fave Is Trash

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Ampersand

Help me keep drawing cartoons by supporting my Patreon! A $1 pledge helps, and is greatly appreciated. This cartoon is particularly salient, I think, on the left. I think virtually everyone on the left has had the experience of finding … Continue reading →

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If Taxation WERE Just Like Theft

Posted on February 17, 2019 by Ampersand

Help me make more cartoons: Support my patreon! A $1 pledge really means a lot. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has six panels, with a caption underneath the bottom of the strip. PANEL 1 Two women pull back in shock … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Libertarianism | 20 Comments  

New Book! And new reward tiers on my Patreon.

Posted on February 14, 2019 by Ampersand

New book! I’m so excited about this! I’ve been working like crazy since New Year’s, putting together a book collecting all my 2018 political cartoons. Here are the details: You Only Drew This To Get Laid Over 90 pages, in … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: A Woman In The Primary

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Ampersand

Help me make more cartoons by supporting my Patreon! A $1 pledge means a lot. While I was working on this strip, my friend Rachel suggested I read the blogger Echidne’s post “The Hillarization of Female Politicians,” and I can … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Elections and politics, Feminism, sexism, etc | 21 Comments  

Cartoon: Magic Ball

Posted on February 2, 2019 by Ampersand

If you enjoy these cartoons, please support my patreon! A $1 pledge really means a lot. It’s pretty common to hear Americans – usually but not always conservatives – lament that life was better back then (whenever “then” was). Less … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Race, racism and related issues | 11 Comments  

Cartoon: I am not a person who would ever do or say the things I said and did

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Ampersand

Help me make more cartoons! A bunch of people pledging $1 or $2 on my Patreon makes these cartoons – and let’s face it, my life – possible. For once, I know exactly where the idea for this cartoon came … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: How The Climate Change Hoax Works

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Ampersand

If you like these cartoons, please support my Patreon! A $1 pledge helps keep me drawing cartoons. I drew this one back in June, but as far as I can tell, I never got around to posting on “Alas.” Oops! … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Environmental issues | 27 Comments  

Cartoon: Forced Kidney Donation

Posted on January 9, 2019 by Ampersand

If you enjoy these cartoons, help me make more by supporting my Patreon! A $1 pledge really helps. In 1971, the philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson wrote “A Defense of Abortion,” in which she used the example of a person waking … Continue reading →

Posted in Abortion & reproductive rights, Cartooning & comics, Feminism, sexism, etc | 29 Comments