Category Archives: Race, racism and related issues

Cartoon: Triheads vs Squareheads

Posted on April 11, 2021 by Ampersand

This cartoon is a collaboration between myself (script and lettering), Becky Hawkins (classroom scenes), and Naomi Rubin (Triheads vs Squareheads scenes). If you like these cartoons, help me make more (and help me pay my swell collaborators!) by supporting my … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: Do We Blame the Chinese or the Jews?

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Ampersand

If you like these cartoons, help me make more at my Patreon! A $1 or $2 pledge really matters. I wish I could say that I’m making up these conspiracy theories, I really do. But I’m not. I’m really not. … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: Back Then, No One Knew Blackface Is Offensive

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Ampersand

If you like these cartoons, please help me make more by supporting my Patreon! I make a living mostly off of a bunch of fans pledging just $1 or $2. The Frederick Douglass quote in this cartoon is a paraphrase; … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: Token White Male Character

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Ampersand

I can only make these cartoons because of my supporters on Patreon! If you can spare it, please join them! A $1 pledge really matters. If you don’t pay attention to online discussions of diversity in media, well then: Good … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Posted on May 6, 2019 by Ampersand

If you enjoy my cartoons, help me make more by supporting my patreon. A $1 pledge really helps! This is a cartoon from July, but I can’t find it on “Alas” or on leftycartoons.com, so I suspect I forgot to … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: Say I’m Not A Racist!

Posted on April 9, 2019 by Ampersand

Support me on Patreon – it’s how I make my living! A $1 pledge really helps. This cartoon was inspired by a public argument in Congress back in February: Cohen accused Trump of being “a racist” as a way to … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: Magic Ball

Posted on February 2, 2019 by Ampersand

If you enjoy these cartoons, please support my patreon! A $1 pledge really means a lot. It’s pretty common to hear Americans – usually but not always conservatives – lament that life was better back then (whenever “then” was). Less … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: Walter, The Guy Who Thinks Nothing’s Changed Since 1860

Posted on November 20, 2018 by Ampersand

If you like these cartoons, please help me make more by supporting my Patreon. A $1 pledge means a lot to me! This is one of those cartoons that’s based on an annoying thing I’ve seen a bunch of right-wingers … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: What Racism Is(n’t) About

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Ampersand

If you like these cartoons, please help me make more by supporting my Patreon! A $1 pledge really helps. This comic strip deals with the tendency of white people to argue that their personal purity of heart is the essential … Continue reading →

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Cartoon: Picking Their Battles

Posted on August 6, 2018 by Ampersand

If you enjoy these cartoons, and can spare it, please help make more of them! A $1 pledge to my Patreon really matters. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels, all of which show two men chatting as they … Continue reading →

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