{"id":25923,"date":"2021-01-12T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T08:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=25923"},"modified":"2021-01-12T00:04:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T08:04:55","slug":"cartoon-now-that-trumps-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=25923","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: Now That Trump’s Leaving…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy new year!<\/p>\n

Despite how pessimistic this cartoon is, I believe 2021 will be better than 2020. I’m looking forward to a new and much better President – which will happen in 1 week, 1 day, 9 hours, 43 minutes and 56 seconds from when I type this sentence. (I’ve been keeping a tab with a countdown clock<\/a> open.) A covid vaccine is on the horizon, and if the horizon isn’t exactly close, at least I feel reassured that it exists.<\/p>\n

But too many democrats – including, perhaps, Joe Biden – seem to think that the rot, and in particular the attack on democracy, in the Republican party comes from Donald Trump. But this reverses cause and effect. Trump’s ascendency is a result of the GOP’s long-festering hatred of democracy, from Bush v Gore to gutting the Voting Rights Act to any number of voter suppression laws to gerrymandering.<\/p>\n

Trump is the Republican party with the mask removed. And even if the mask comes back on, the GOP’s war on democracy will continue.<\/p>\n

I’m sorry this is so depressing. I honestly do think things are going to get a lot better in 2021, and I hope we all feel a lot of joy in… 1 week, 1 day, 9 hours, 32 minutes, and 4 seconds. I sure will.<\/p>\n

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It’s fun to do a single-panel cartoon now and then, because I can lavish more attention on the drawing than usual. And, of course, drawing monster faces is always fun.<\/p>\n

I think this is only the fifth or sixth time I’ve ever drawn Trump. And, honestly, I don’t think I did the best job of it. But to be honest – and if I can’t be honest with my patrons, then who can I be honest with? – well, my cat, I can say anything to my cat – But my point is, I’m so pleased that I’ll never become really fluent at drawing that horrible man. It’s possible that I will never ever draw him again.<\/p>\n

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Another fun thing about single-panel cartoons? It takes so little time to write the transcript!<\/p>\n

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON<\/strong><\/p>\n

This cartoon has a single panel.<\/p>\n

The panel shows a blighted and ugly landscape. It’s a hillside, bleak and barren, with ugly green storm clouds against a dark red sky.<\/p>\n

There is a huge, monstrous head sticking out of an lifeless hillside. The head has bumps and a dozen or so horns, irregularly shaped and in one case broken off. It has a tiny nose and tiny, glaring eyes. It’s mostly green and yellow, but on one cheek a flap of skin has come off, showing some red underneath. The huge mouth is open like a garage, and we can see huge and irregular pointy teeth and a bulbous tongue covered with warts.<\/p>\n

A sign sticking out of the ground, just in front of the head, says “G.O.P.”<\/p>\n

A trail of slime leads out of the open mouth, to the lower left corner of the cartoon, where a sluglike creature with Donald Trump’s face is crawling away. Trumpslug is wearing a shirt collar and a long red necktie.<\/p>\n

Nearby, a couple of ordinary-looking people, a man and a woman, are happily watching Trumpslug depart. They are facing away from the awful gigantic head looming over them and don’t appear to have noticed it.<\/p>\n

MAN: He’s leaving!<\/p>\n

WOMAN: Democracy is safe from the monster!<\/p>\n

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P.S.: 1 week, 1 day, 9 hours, 21 minutes, 27 seconds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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