Posts featuring Commentary
Cornered
Saturday, August 27, 2011
The way the blood reads as both blood and paint is also unlike anything I’ve seen anywhere else, except maybe my own stuff from a few months ago…
God-Man: Year Two Thousand Eleven
Saturday, August 20, 2011
The Governor appears to be far more devoted to his religion than W. (except for the positive parts, of course), but I didn’t want to just slam Christianity in general, so after considering a gag that had Perry leaving tons of messages on God’s answering machine, I finally went ahead with a reference to Batman…
Fall Street
Saturday, August 13, 2011
I developed this cartoon following the see-sawing stock market earlier in the week. I wanted to do something with the Depression-era cliche of the ruined investor jumping from a building, but since it seemed corporate stocks were bound to weather the debt-ceiling storm better than the average American, I also wanted to show a character symbolizing average Americans bearing most of the burden…
Whodunit
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Continuing President Bush’s tax cuts for the rich means the government won’t have the funds necessary to maintain infrastructure, help states out with their struggling economies, or continue funding programs that take care of the poor and the sick…
Long Cuts are Wrong
Saturday, July 30, 2011
My initial idea for this cartoon involved a larger parking lot, with one row of spaces taken up by the absurdly long limousine seen above, and the other occupied by a giant tank or ATV representing the “defense” budget…
Newscorp’s Pocket
Saturday, July 23, 2011
I finally have something on the News of the World phone hacking scandal. This cartoon combines the common sentiment of public servants and government agencies being “in the pocket” of big business with imagery emphasizing Rupert Murdoch’s Austalian-ness…
Neo Cons
Saturday, July 16, 2011
This cartoon compares this blatant economic trickery to the “shell game” or cup-and-ball routine, both of which being sleight-of-hand used for centuries to con desperate or unsuspecting dupes out of money by presenting them with what appears to be a simple gambling game which is in fact impossible to win…
Poisoning the Well
Saturday, July 9, 2011
The woman bearing the “media” label in this cartoon is Nancy Grace, a tabloid pundit whose major claim to fame is aggressively pushing topics like the Anthony trial and driving her interviewees to suicide…
Trouble Brewing
Friday, July 1, 2011
I thought maybe I should compose something to remind people: Michele Bachmann is nuts…
Man’s Best Friend
Saturday, June 25, 2011
This cartoon was drawn in response to the Supreme Court throwing out a class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart by a large swath of female employees earlier this week…