Posts featuring Commentary
Rational Actor
Friday, August 31, 2012
Aside from the lying, one of the major themes of the Republican National Convention was trying to humanize Mitt Romney to the American public, which worked out like an alchemist attempting to transmute lead into gold. There were several reasons for this, not all of them tied to Romney’s being a soulless, private-equity golem powered by tax fraud, diet Coke, and skinless turkey…
You Can’t Spell ‘Grope’ Without G-O-P!
Saturday, August 25, 2012
The Republican Party has made forcing its skewed “morality” on women’s bodies a central plank of its 2012 electoral agenda…
Mr. Burns
Saturday, August 11, 2012
This cartoon addresses recent attacks by the Romney campaign on Obama’s “green” energy record. In particular, the candidate is quoted as saying Obama has an “unhealthy obsession” with green jobs, and cites the Solyndra “scandal” as evidence.
Red Menace
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Despite the majority of Americans being sick of war after a decade of the Bush Administration’s miserable failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, and despite the hundreds of thousands of pointless casualties those two conflicts have incurred, Mitt Romney seems eager to sacrifice even more American troops and foreign civilians to the Blood God.
Corporate Horse
Saturday, July 28, 2012
A commoner like your humble author is unable to get regular checkups or preventative medicine, and scores of the lower-class die every year from conditions more easily treatable than Ann Romney’s M.S., while she, meanwhile, gets to write off a prescription horse.
Let the Sunshine In
Saturday, July 21, 2012
The classic portrayal of the vampire is a shape-shifter who drains the life-forces of others to indefinitely maintain his power and youth, while Romney has shifted positions on just about any political topic of the last ten to fifteen years, his personal fortune is built on liquidating other people’s assets, and he looks like he does at age 65.
Job Creationism
Friday, July 13, 2012
I started this cartoon as a general attack on the term “job creators” and the kinds of people it’s been used to defend, when, about 24 hours later, Romney went and made it more immediately relevant with a condescending speech to the NAACP, which was deservedly booed…
The Romney Platform
Friday, June 29, 2012
I was recently reading that Mitt Romney’s candidacy for President depends on the continued stagnation and deepening failure of the US and European economies. This is typical of elections with an incumbent, as the election often serves as a referendum on that incumbent’s record…
Checkpoint Clackamas + Website Renovations
Saturday, June 16, 2012
I was very busy this week finally getting a redesign for This is Historic Times online, so I didn’t have time to draw a new cartoon for the site. In the meantime, the above is an illustration I drew for the Portland Mercury a couple of weeks ago. The graphics editor at the paper was responsible for the overall creative concept, although most of the details were left up to me.
Here’s a link to the Mercury’s article on the topic…
Bulls***
Saturday, June 2, 2012
I’ve been going too easy on President Obama lately. His Administration’s policy of bombing “suspected terrorists” in unmanned drone strikes has drawn criticism, recently, for the danger it represents to innocent civilians who might just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time…