Posts featuring Commentary
Fruit of Knowledge
Sunday, March 20, 2011
I wanted to do something commenting on the dual nature of nuclear technology, with both its productive and destructive potentials, and thought the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge in the story of Adam and Eve might make a good symbol for this…
There Will Be Blood
Thursday, March 17, 2011
This cartoon is mostly a response to people lamenting the recent increases in gas prices ostensibly caused by democratic protests against various Middle Eastern dictators, like Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi…
The Invisible Hand
Friday, March 11, 2011
Free-market types like to argue that taxes and regulations discourage businesses from setting up shop domestically, and that if we don’t loosen things up, then they’ll just go someplace that doesn’t have such encumbrances…
Scott Walker Blows
Friday, February 25, 2011
This cartoon addresses the protests in Wisconsin against Governor Scott Walker, and his attempts to use budget difficulties as a jumping-off point to kill off public employees’ unions in the state…
Pyramid Scam
Saturday, February 19, 2011
This piece addresses the White House’s recently released Federal budget proposal, and how the squeeze is being put on programs that benefit the middle class and the poor in order to satisfy the demands of the defense budget, and the tax cut “compromise” made between the President and the GOP to continue giving tax breaks to the wealthy…
Liberty Leading the People
Saturday, February 12, 2011
I remembered the painting Liberty Leading the People, by French Romantic artist Eugene Delacroix, and thought that it’d adapt well to the modern subject matter, since there seemed to be some parallels between the French revolutions of the 18th/19th centuries, and the protests happening throughout the Middle East today…
Ronald Reagun
Saturday, January 22, 2011
I wanted to draw something that’d tie the current Universal Healthcare debate, as it applies to mental health, to the recent shooting in Tucson, which I addressed by itself in the previous cartoon…
Warburger, the Infinitely Prolonged
Sunday, January 9, 2011
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American Golgothic
Friday, December 24, 2010
This cartoon addresses Congress’s failure to pass the DREAM Act…
David versus Goliath
Monday, December 13, 2010
Those who saw Bernie Sanders‘ 8 1/2 hour long speech on Friday explaining why the Obama/GOP tax cut “compromise” is bad will hopefully recognize my drawing of him, here…