{"id":23982,"date":"2018-05-16T08:25:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=23982"},"modified":"2018-05-16T08:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:29:49","slug":"cartoon-new-recruits-vow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=23982","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: New Recruits’ Vow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m not sure that I’ve ever done a cartoon about ICE before, and I’ve really wanted to, but it’s been hard for me to think one up. <\/p>\n

ICE is genuinely one of the most evil branches of the U.S. government; they’re needlessly martial, needlessly cruel, and far overfunded. If you pay attention to ICE in your newsreading, you’ll hear of outrages virtually every week. It’s one of those topics that gets me so enraged that I just see red and then it’s really hard to make up a cartoon, and so I end up doing a cartoon about something else.<\/p>\n

(But what would we do without ICE, you might ask? Remember that ICE is a relatively new agency, created in the panic following 9\/11. Before that we had the INS, and as bad as the INS was, its culture didn’t seem as combative or as dismissive of the humanity of the immigrants it dealt with.)<\/p>\n

(“Not as bad as ICE” is, admittedly, not a high bar.)<\/p>\n

I think the art for this one is decent. I’m definitely leaning hard into the “bighead figures” drawing this year. It’s not necessarily the most fun style for me to draw, but something about the contrast between the horrible things my cartoons are about, and the extreme cuteness of the drawing style, adds an extra punch to the cartoons. Or that’s the theory I’m working from for now. :-)<\/p>\n

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Transcript of Cartoon<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a four-panel cartoon.<\/p>\n

PANEL ONE shows two women, one wearing a long open-front sweater and a polka dot skirt, the other wearing pants and a long-sleeved v neck shirt. The woman with the polka dot skirt is reading aloud from something on her smartphone. The woman in the v-neck shirt is listening, hand on her chin.<\/p>\n

DOTS: Listen to the vow this group makes new recruits take! “I swear I will have no mercy for brown people…”<\/p>\n

PANEL TWO
\nA close-up of Dots as she continues reading from her phone. She looks a bit angry.<\/p>\n

DOTS: “I will throw them into prison without due process. I will pull their crying children from their arms.”<\/p>\n

PANEL THREE
\nA shot of the two of them. Dots continues to read from her phone. V-Neck interrupts, looking horrified, her eyes wide and her hands on her cheeks.<\/p>\n

DOTS: “I will spread fear and desperation. I will…”
\nV-NECK: What nightmare group is this? The Klan? The Nazis?<\/p>\n

PANEL FOUR
\nA middle-aged man with a mustache and wearing a suit, stands behind a podium, talking to a crowd of people. The front of the podium has the Department of Homeland Security seal, and the word “ICE.”<\/p>\n

MAN: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to ICE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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