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Cartoon: Being Foxy About Vaccines
════ ⋆★⋆ ════ This cartoon is a collaboration with Becky Hawkins. ════ ⋆★⋆ ════ Nearly all Fox staffers vaccinated for Covid even as hosts cast doubt on vaccine | Fox News | The Guardian The vast majority of employees at Fox … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Media criticism
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Cartoon: Might As Well Face It, We’re Addicted To Fear
If you like these cartoons, you can help me make more by supporting the Patreon. The marketplace is a terrible way to produce news. Because it the end, being the market, it’s not about what viewers need. Or about what … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Media, Media criticism
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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
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Media, Media criticism
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Cartoon: The News Could Not Be Any More Objective
If you like these cartoons, please help us make more! This cartoon was drawn by the one and only Kevin Moore! Hello from the east coast! When I originally wrote these words (in December 2021), I was in upstate New … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Fat, fat and more fat, Media criticism, Sex work, porn, etc, Union Issues
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Cancel Culture, Mimi, Jimmy, and Cowards At The University of Tennessee
This story is dispiriting and ugly. (Alternate link). When she was in the ninth grade, Mimi (who is white) sent a friend a three-second video in which Mimi used the N-word. Ms. Groves had originally sent the video, in which … Continue reading
Posted in Media criticism, norms of discourse, Racism, Society & Culture
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Cartoon: Looters!
Help me make more cartoons by supporting my Patreon! A $1 or $2 pledge really helps. I usually post my cartoons on Patreon a week or two (or more!) before I post them in public (like on “Alas”). It’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, In the news, Media criticism
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Comedy Is Dead
___________________________________________________________ Help me make more cartoons like this one by supporting my Patreon! A $1 or $2 pledge really helps. ____________________________________________________________ Happy Halloween! I totally swiped the “comedy is sacred” gag from Alexandra Erin. (With her kind permission). The inspiration … Continue reading
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Defending Free Speech
__________________________________________________________ Help me make more cartoons like this one by supporting my Patreon! A $1 or $2 pledge really helps. ____________________________________________________________ I have three complaints about the way mainstream pundits treat the “campus speech” issue. First of all, they vastly … Continue reading
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Cartoon: Equally Bad!
Please help me make more cartoons by supporting my Patreon! I make a living primarily from lots of people pledging $1, and that’s kind of awesome. Back in August, a racist drove to El Paso, Texas and shot up a … Continue reading
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