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Cartoon: Some Things Straight People Can Stop Saying
This cartoon is by Becky Hawkins and I. Quite a while ago, I did a cartoon like this about Cis people, and someone on Facebook (someone I knew at Oberlin in the late 80s, who is himself gay) commented “PLEASE … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues
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Cartoon: Why We Need Don’t Say Gay Laws
This cartoon was drawn by the wonderful Nadine Scholtes. The unicorns and rainbows were Nadine’s idea, and I love them. From the Associated Press: Top officials at a Florida school district ordered the removal of all books and material containing … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues
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Cartoon: Our Loss, Your Gain
This cartoon is by Becky Hawkins and I. The book Diets Don’t Fail, by Jascha Fishburn, says (in its jacket copy): A diet has never failed anyone; however, many people fail diets, again and again every day. This attitude is … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Fat, fat and more fat
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Cartoon: Women Need To Be More Warm And Approachable
I saw this exchange on Twitter. For context, “David” is an anti-feminist with 7,000 followers, and Andrew Tate is a famous misogynist: David’s sentiment is common among incels and anti-feminists (two groups with significant overlap) – if young women would … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, misogyny, Sexism
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Cartoon: The GOP Tax Policy Cycle!
Bobby Kogen, at the Center for American Progress, writes: Long-term projections show that federal debt as a percentage of the U.S. economy is on a path to grow indefinitely… House Republican leaders have used this fact to call for spending … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., Economics and the like
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Cartoon: Service Animal Blues
Another collaboration with Nadine Scholtes, who has quickly become a fixture. I asked Nadine if there were any topics that she’d particularly like to do a cartoon about, and she surprised me by saying “something about service dogs. Like people … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Disabled Rights & Issues
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Diets Don’t Work Therefore You Must Diet
This cartoon, drawn by Becky Hawkins, is a straightforward adaptation of a Michael Hobbes tweet (with Michael’s kind permission). Michael, for those who don’t know, is a popular podcaster, whose three podcasts (past and present) are You’re Wrong About (a … Continue reading
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Cartoon: Self-Made Billionaire
This feels like a very old-fashioned lefty cartoon to me; it’s super-didactic, reliant on labels, has no real punchline, and it’s less about telling a joke then it is about trying to illustrate a basic principal of lefty economics. Other … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Economics and the like
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