Category Archives: Cartooning & comics

Slashing Medicaid: Your Loss Our Gain

My new cartoon collection, Why Must They Shove It In My Face?, is out. It’s about 200 pages of cartoony goodness, featuring 100 cartoons, plus text pieces and oodles of behind-the-scenes sketches. You can download the PDF if you join my Patreon … Continue reading

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You Only Think You Liked It!

My new cartoon collection, Why Must They Shove It In My Face?, is out! It’s about 200 pages of cartoony goodness, featuring 100 cartoons, plus text pieces and oodles of behind-the-scenes sketches. You can download the PDF if you join … Continue reading

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At Least The Fruit Subscription Services Run On Time

For the record, it’s a myth that Mussolini made the trains run on time. From Snopes: The Italian railway system had fallen into a rather sad state during World War I, and it did improve a good deal during the … Continue reading

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(Not) All Jews Are Welcome

Note: This cartoon has been revised. You can see the earlier version of it here.   Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! From an October 2024 article from In These Times: U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their … Continue reading

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Trust Us, We’re Doctors

This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Dylan Scott wrote an article on Vox entitled “The One Big Unanswered Question About Ozempic.” Ozempic seems to take away urges, and not only hunger related urges. And no one seems to … Continue reading

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Beware God’s Sock Puppets

This cartoon is by me and Kevin Moore. From the Bible (2 Kings 2, specifically): He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and … Continue reading

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Comic: We’ve Got Nothing Against Immigrants, Except the Immigrant Ones

I’m chuffed to again collaborate with R.E. Ryan, whose last cartoon with me was “Let’s Outlaw Being Homeless” over a year ago. I love the way his drawing recalls the style of classical cartooning. (Or so it looks to me, … Continue reading

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Cartoon: They Will Never Be Shown

This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: I often choose which cartoon to draw based on personal grievances—I mean, I carry my wealth of life experience into my art. I worked as a cruise ship musician for a … Continue reading

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Cartoon: The End of PEPFAR

Check out the timelapse drawing video (including video of Frank Young’s coloring process). TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. All of them show three people – a casually dressed woman, a politician type in a suit, and a … Continue reading

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(comic) Standing Aside Athwart History

This cartoon is drawn by the wonderful cartoonist Jenn Lee. (And doesn’t that carpeting in panel four look amazing?) “Athwart” is such a great word. I should look for chances to drop it into everyday conversation. (“I’m athwart live-action versions … Continue reading

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