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Category Archives: International issues
A Brief History of Brief Wars
Wow, did this cartoon take forever to make! So why did it take so long? First of all, history-based cartoons always take more time to research. But the research was really fruitful, because I found quotes that let me arrange … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Iran, Iraq, Korea
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Tehran
All dialog in this strip is quoted from “Dark Like Our Future” by Deepa Parent in The Guardian. From the article: Thick black smoke was still rising in the sky, soot covered the streets and cars, balconies filled with black … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, In the news, International, Iran
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Why Are You Singling Out Israel?
If you publicly criticize Israel, you’ll sooner or later be confronted with the “why are you singling out Israel” critique. “There are so many nations in the world – so picking on the world’s one and only Jewish state must … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Palestine & Israel
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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
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Palestine & Israel
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Cartoon: Why We Say “As A Jew”
This comic was drawn by Becky Hawkins, who writes: I wanted to draw this cartoon. I feel like whether and how much I’m seen as Jewish fluctuates depending on where I am and who I’m with, so the conversation about … Continue reading
Cartoon: Free Speech on Campus
In the first draft of this cartoon, the first panel went out of its way to make fun of Emma Camp’s New York Times article about students being afraid to say controversial things. Camp described her own freedom of speech being threatened when … Continue reading
So Much In Common
Robert Wright writes: But then I remembered a conversation I had a few years ago with a psychologist at Boston College named Liane Young. She and some colleagues had done research on how Palestinians and Israelis view their conflict and … Continue reading
Cartoon: How Sanctions Usually Work
This cartoon is by me and Kevin Moore. Kevin writes: Any time I can draw over-the-top, absurd violence with satiric intent is fun for me. I don’t like guns or violence in real life, but in fiction it can be … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, International issues
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Cartoon: Yemen
If you enjoy these cartoons, please help me make more by supporting my Patreon! A $1 pledge really matters. My favorite foreign policy writer, these days, is Daniel Larison, who writes for The American Conservative. Larison’s beat is American foreign … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, International issues
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It’s Gross to Use Otto Warmbier’s Tragedy to talk about White Male Privilege
Otto Warmbier was a 22-year-old American who, early in 2016 was convicted by a North Korean court of stealing a poster. He was put in a North Korean prison, until he was returned to the US in a coma on … Continue reading
Posted in In the news, Korea, White Privilege
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There's a (relatively) famous book by Albert Hirschman called The Rhetoric of Reaction. It's about the responses conservatives have to…