{"id":27612,"date":"2025-04-21T13:38:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T20:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=27612"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T20:38:31","slug":"cartoon-moving-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=27612","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: Moving Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There’s a\u00a0<\/a>timelapse drawing video<\/a>\u00a0for this cartoon – check it out!<\/p>\n

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For my entire life – and much longer than that – conservatives have been anti-Russia. In the 1980s, if a conservative talked about “the evil empire,” you didn’t need to ask which country they meant. (Unless they were a big Star Wars<\/em>\u00a0fan, I guess).<\/p>\n

Conservatives have never been big fans of import taxes (aka tariffs), let alone demanding high tariffs – that high taxes harm the economy was practically a foundational belief. And the idea of annexing Canada was simply not on the radar.<\/p>\n

How things have changed. It appears that Republicans are happy to jettison any of their prior beliefs, if it’s for a strongman who is demonizing the other – whether that other be immigrants, trans people, pro-Palestinian protestors, feminists, diversity, or whoever else is today’s target of choice.<\/p>\n

So that was the impetus behind this cartoon. Well, that, and also it’s fun for me to draw cartoony anthropomorphic brains.<\/p>\n

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

This cartoon has six panels. Each panel shows a conversation between two men, one a young guy wearing a t-shirt, the other a middle-aged executive-looking man wearing a suit.<\/p>\n

PANEL 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Younger guy looks thoughtful as the older guy cheerfully makes a sales pitch.<\/p>\n

OLDER: We’re cutting Medicaid, raising import taxes, huge tax cuts for billionaires, and Russia’s now our bestie. Also, we want to annex Canada.<\/p>\n

PANEL 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Younger holds up his palms, rejecting Older guy’s ideas. Older guy is smiling.<\/p>\n

YOUNGER: But I don’t want any of that!<\/p>\n

OLDER: We’ll also give you a couple of minorities to blame everything on and we’ll treat them like shit!<\/p>\n

PANEL 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

A close shot of the Younger guy shows him looking thoughtful and a little blank. A panel on the side of his head opens.<\/p>\n

PANEL 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

The panel opens further; we can now see it’s being opened by the Younger guy’s brain, which has eyes and limbs, and is squeezing out the opening.<\/p>\n

PANEL 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

The brain jumps away, leaving an empty head behind.<\/p>\n

PANEL 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Younger guy, an open panel still showing his empty head, is standing robotically and speaking too loudly. The Older guy smiles smugly.<\/p>\n

YOUNGER: YOU HAVE MY SUPPORT!<\/p>\n

CHICKEN FAT WATCH<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Chicken fat” is obsolete cartoonists’ slang for little details that are unimportant but fun.<\/p>\n

Panel 1 – Younger guy’s t-shirt shows a big capital “T,” with hands coming out the “sleeves” and a collar drawn on top. In small print below the T it says “(get it?)”. A booklet lying on the sidewalk is entitled “How To Litter” with burst lettering saying “easy!” “fun” and “low cal!”<\/p>\n

Panel 2 – The t-shirt now shows a chicken, with a thought balloon saying “Don’t call me fat.”<\/p>\n

Panel 3 – The t-shirt now says “Lincoln Faked His Death.”<\/p>\n

Panel 6 – The t-shirt now says “Down with Eastasia,” but “Eastasia” is crossed out and “Eurasia” written in.<\/p>\n

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