{"id":23735,"date":"2018-02-08T22:04:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T06:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=23735"},"modified":"2018-02-08T22:10:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T06:10:03","slug":"cartoon-the-puerto-rico-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=23735","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: The Puerto Rico Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The ongoing crisis in Puerto Rico is being mostly ignored by virtually all institutions on the mainland. It’s impossible to imagine that the crisis would have been allowed to go on so long, with so little attention, had it happened in Connecticut. <\/p>\n

The cycle of no attention is frustrating and it makes me feel helpless – which usually means, time to draw a cartoon. I’ve done cartoons before in which the last panel repeated the first panel, implying a loop, but this time I wanted to try drawing it as a literal loop.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty pleased with how this one looks – big heads and lots of cross hatching is increasingly becoming my jam. <\/p>\n

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Transcript of cartoon.<\/p>\n

The main body of this cartoon shows three groupings of figures. Large arrows point counterclockwise from each group to the next group.<\/p>\n

At the top of the loop, a balding man in an expensive suit speaks directly to the readers, while shrugging.
\nSUIT DUDE: We can’t put tax dollars into helping Puerto Rico if the voters don’t care about it.<\/p>\n

A big arrow leads from the man in the suit, to a television set, showing two news anchors, a man and a woman. They are both shrugging and looking into the camera. The anchorwoman speaks.<\/p>\n

ANCHORWOMAN: If the government does nothing about Puerto Rico, there’s nothing for us to report.<\/p>\n

A large arrow leads from the television set to a man and a woman standing on a hillside. The man is wearing a plaid shirt and scratching his head in bewilderment; the woman, wearing a hoodie and a skirt with a dotted pattern, looks directly at the reader and speaks while shrugging.<\/p>\n

WOMAN: If it’s constantly on the news, we forget it exists.<\/p>\n

A large arrow leads from the two people, back up to the politician in a suit.<\/p>\n

At the very bottom of the cartoon, a small “kicker” panel shows a fat man with a beard and glasses speaking directly to the readers.
\nBARRY: There’s no way to break out of this cycle! …Unless the victims are white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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