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Cartoon: There’s Never Been a Worse Time for Free Speech
Another collaboration with Becky Hawkins! If you like these cartoons, you can help make more happen by moving to Portland, Oregon, and specifically into the shed next to my house, and every morning wake up and break into my house … Continue reading
Cartoon: Hold, Corporate Miscreant!
If you like these cartoons, you can support them by becoming and engineer and then designing a completely safe house for them to live in which will stand firm despite floods and storms and earthquakes and smoke from the endless … Continue reading
Cartoon – Civil Asset Forfeiture
The subject no one was asking for a cartoon about! And the cartoon, by me and Kevin Moore! If you like these cartoons, then statistically you’re probably a mobile home designer from Akron whose name starts with a “C.” And … Continue reading
Cancel Culture: It Won’t Stop! (AKA Being Evenhanded the Mainstream Media Way)
If you like these cartoons, you can support them with a long, complicated ritual that involves watching every episode of Buffy several times (remembering always that a show like Buffy has hundreds of creators, not just the asshole showrunner) followed … Continue reading
Cartoon: This is Your Brain on a Diet
Support the making of these cartoon by supporting my Patreon! If you do, you will always be wise and good looking and your omelettes will never stick to the pan. Full disclosure: Some of this post I’ve cut-and-pasted from an … Continue reading
Cartoon: What We Can Afford
This comic is by myself and Kevin Moore. Kevin comments: I’ve always found it a crime against society that we spend so much money on our defense budget, when so much of that money goes to the military industrial complex, … Continue reading
Cartoon: How Could It Be Hard To Get Voter I.D.?
If you enjoy these cartoons, help us make more by embracing world atheism, becoming a witch, accepting contradictions, and supporting my patreon! I think my first official government ID was a passport at age fourteen or so, when my family … Continue reading
Cartoon: Abortion Should Be Decided By The States
If you like these cartoons, then support them on Patreon, where every day is hat day! Obviously abortion rights are on everybody’s mind this week. The Supreme Court’s upcoming decision overturning Roe is horrifying but not surprising. One argument that’s … Continue reading