{"id":27652,"date":"2025-07-14T09:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=27652"},"modified":"2025-07-14T09:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:24:11","slug":"cartoon-the-end-of-pepfar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=27652","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: The End of PEPFAR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Check out the timelapse drawing video<\/a> (including video of Frank Young’s coloring process).<\/p>\n

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

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.<\/p>\n

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

POLITICIAN: Lefties say conservatives are racist monsters who don’t value human life – but what about PEPFAR here?<\/p>\n

DOCTOR TYPE: Hi! I’m Pepfar!<\/p>\n

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

A close up of the politician, with a hand held over his heart.<\/p>\n

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

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

The woman smiles. Everyone’s smiling. The politician reaches for something inside his jacket.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

POLITICIAN: See? We’re not such monsters.<\/p>\n

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

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

POLITICIAN: But I’ve got tax cuts to offset, so…<\/p>\n

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

“Chicken Fat” is a long-dormant cartoonists’ expression for little unimportant details in the art.<\/p>\n

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-”<\/p>\n

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

PANEL 3. The woman’s tattoo, instead of TNT, now shows an explosion sound effect.<\/p>\n

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!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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