Category Archives: Cartooning & comics

Everyone Knows Elections Are Rigged

In June of 2026, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was asked by CNN what evidence there is to prove election fraud in California: JOHNSON: It stinks to high heaven, and everybody knows that. Let’s remove the appearance of impropriety. … Continue reading →

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A Bunch of Einsteins

Another collaboration with Becky Hawkins! Becky writes: This cartoon was a fun mix of historical (Charles Kao! Theodore Maiman! Young Einstein at Friedrich Wilhelm University!) and fanciful (annnd the octopus is… watching YouTube! while doing dishes!). Barry’s script for panel 2 … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Economics and the like, science | 10 Comments

America’s Biggest Problem

Another collaboration with gorgeous visuals from R.E. Ryan. University of Amsterdam professor Petter Törnberg wrote an article that could have been written to go with this cartoon: It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right. Polarization offers an … Continue reading →

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Crime’s Gonna Get You!

Welcome back to Kevin Moore, whose lovely drawings we haven’t seen here in a pig’s age! (I have no idea what a “pig’s age” means.) Did you know that, according to the FBI, homicide rates in the US are the … Continue reading →

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Recycling

Another collab with Becky Hawkins! Becky and I are both fond of creating these history cartoons. Not every cartoon in the “history” category at leftycartoons is drawn by Becky, but I suspect most of them are. And Becky did a … Continue reading →

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The Art of Persuasion

I’m really happy with the art in this one, especially the first two panels. In fact, because I was having so much fun drawing that double-panel background, I forgot about the word balloons and wasted some time drawing distant houses … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Elections and politics, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues, Transsexual and Transgender related issues | 6 Comments

The Basic Barrier

Another collaboration with the chicken-fat-mad Mike Lawrence! That trap-filled hopscotch board was entirely Mike’s idea. This is something I’ve suspected for a while—that the core reason many liberals don’t support a universal basic income (UBI) is that it just sounds … Continue reading →

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Those Poor, Poor Billionaires

Drawing the “Muppet Gothic” in the background was so much fun! It’s funny when the extremist rhetoric I make up for my caricatures of rich right-wingers is less extreme than what some real billionaires say. In 2014, billionaire Tom Perkins … Continue reading →

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Can We Call It Fascism Yet?

Another strip drawn by the amazing Mike Lawrence. From an official press release on whitehouse.gov, July 16 2026: Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller made clear there must be no retreat: “One of the hallmarks of left-wing violence and terrorism is … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc. | 54 Comments

You’re Not Fat, You’re Beautiful

This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky and I were working together at a coffee shop, and Becky was talking about the movie The Devil Wears Prada. Or, more specifically, Becky was describing a podcast she’d listened to … Continue reading →

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