RSA Animate has created an excellent piece of animation based on David Harvey’s lecture on the causes of the current global economic meltdown, “Crises of Capitalism.” As a lecture, Harvey’s critique of the various standard explanation for the current crisis and placement of the implosion into a historical context is worth listening to on its [...]

[Read more →]

Driving the kids home from kung fu, I heard this on the car radio. The financial industry poured $500 million into lobbying lawmakers on the new financial reform bill. And it was money well spent. Mike Konczal is being ironic, of course. After counting the ways financial lobbyists have weakened reform legislation, Konczal concludes, “This [...]

[Read more →]

Which sounds like a confused Indiana Jones movie. Anyhoo, page 2 of “Out to Sea” is up at Wanderlost. I really enjoy drawing these giant waves. I think that may be my whole motive for the story, an excuse to draw huge undulating mountains of water full of foam and darkness. All for a little [...]

[Read more →]

This cartoon was made for walking. This week I started drawing at a new studio space I am renting near my house. I have wanted a studio outside of my house for so very freaking long, so I was glad to hear from friend, fellow Cartoonist With Attitude Barry Goddam Deutsch that a space was [...]

[Read more →]

You should click that image to read it at full size. You should. Then you should check out Mudtown by Brendan Clawson and Greg Bigoni. But probably not at work.

[Read more →]

A new study finds the obvious: if Mexicans cannot find jobs in the U.S. or other countries, they stay home. Or, more accurately, the lack of jobs in the U.S. and the increased cost of getting past tightened border security have discouraged unauthorized immigration by Mexican workers: Mexican and American researchers say that the current [...]

[Read more →]

Click the image. It will take you on a magic carpet ride. Yes, yes, ride between the sound machine.

[Read more →]

The Washington Post reports that the ObamAdmin is luring financial companies into bailout programs with promises of avoiding restrictions imposed by Congress: The administration believes it can sidestep the rules because, in many cases, it has decided not to provide federal aid directly to financial companies, the sources said. Instead, the government has set up [...]

[Read more →]

You should totally like read this cartoon.

[Read more →]

As I write this, twitpics is down, overloaded with photos of protests at the G20 Summit in London and twitter itself is jammed. The Guardian reports that protesters and cops turned violent on each other (I won’t get into a “who started it” debate, cuz that’s childish) and some protesters stormed the Royal Bank of [...]

[Read more →]