Cartoon: The End of PEPFAR

Check out the timelapse drawing video (including video of Frank Young’s coloring process).

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON

This cartoon has four panels. All of them show three people – a casually dressed woman, a politician type in a suit, and a doctor type in a white lab coat – on a city sidewalk.

PANEL 1

POLITICIAN: Lefties say conservatives are racist monsters who don’t value human life – but what about PEPFAR here?

DOCTOR TYPE: Hi! I’m Pepfar!

PANEL 2

A close up of the politician, with a hand held over his heart.

POLITICIAN: PEPFAR was founded by the Bush administration to help people with AIDS. And it’s saved over 25 million lives, mostly in Africa!

PANEL 3

The woman smiles. Everyone’s smiling. The politician reaches for something inside his jacket.

WOMAN: I do have some issues with PEPFAR… but overall, you’re right. PEPFAR does a huge amount of good and saves tons of lives.

POLITICIAN: See? We’re not such monsters.

PANEL 4

The politician, still smiling, has drawn a gun and shoots the PEPFAR dude over and over – he’s clearly dead. The woman is horrified.

POLITICIAN: But I’ve got tax cuts to offset, so…

CHICKEN FAT WATCH

“Chicken Fat” is a long-dormant cartoonists’ expression for little unimportant details in the art.

PANEL 1. Woodstock and Opus are sitting together high on a building. A “wanted” poster on the building shows someone named “A. C. Ute” with a triangle-shaped head. A grumpy mouse is running away, with a bag on a stick over a shoulder. A piece of litter shows a cartoon bug and the words “get it?” A snake is coming out of a sneaker. The woman has a tattoo of a bundle of TNT. Travel stickers on the doctor’s roller bag say “Alderaan: It’s a Blast!” “Iowa: 75% Vowels!” “Sodom: Try Our Salt” “Gotham: Nana nana nana Batman,” “Place,” and one that’s cut off by the corner of the bag that says “Cut off Tr-”

PANEL 2. A poster in the background says “CHEESE is kinda gross if you think about it but so is most food.”

PANEL 3. The woman’s tattoo, instead of TNT, now shows an explosion sound effect.

PANEL 4. A spy is hiding behind a pillar in the background. Travel stickers on the suitcase say “Tiny Text that no one reads except U,” “Avoid Florida,” and “Hi Frank! Thanks for the colors!”