Since late 2024, when I have not been working on Otherworldly Goods, I have posted cartoons in response to current events. Until today, I had not been posting them to this website, using social media instead to satisfy my instant gratification. There were a few reasons: 1) I was dealing with health issues after getting … Read More “What Now? I’ll Tell You What Now” »
Category: politics
How did we get here? The right wing has identified Critical Race Theory as this week’s Threat Against America and has accused the U.S. military of “wokeness” because it has used this framework to assess the influence of white supremacists among its ranks. Now prominent right wingers are suggesting cutting the defense budget, using “defund … Read More “The So-Called Woke Military” »
Occasion for this cartoon: This week the viral news concerned ex-prez Obama tut-tutting liberals or lefties on Twitter for “canceling” the hateful people who make their lives miserable. Or maybe it was rape survivors standing up to Harvey Weinstein? Or who knows? Because the context for his glib lecturing is one where people with little … Read More “Woke” »
In a mirror universe, I suppose. The Washington Post has a story about how the Trump Organization for decades has used undocumented migrant workers from Latin America to build its empire of golf courses and wineries, paying them below scale wages and denying them health benefits. This fits a pattern of defrauding contractors and investors, … Read More “The Illegals” »
Right, so, I am sure you have just killing yourself with worry that the 9 or 10 political cartoons I drew in 2015 were just floating aimlessly in the void with nowhere to live. Well, now your personal (our national) nightmare is over. Today I created a page to host a gallery of the cartoons … Read More “2015 Political Cartoons Have a Home” »
It is barely afternoon on the West Coast of North America, so I am still digesting the news as it is coming in. I sit at a reference desk in my library, helping students find books or cite sources or research topics, hoping this will help them succeed in their efforts to better their lives, … Read More “Fetch Fights Fascists” »
You can read more comics like this at the Fetch page. This week’s strip stars an old friend of mine, Barry Deutsch. We often have conversations like this, where we try to figure out how much we should expect American society to support the people who comprise it. The Democratic side of primary season has … Read More “Fetch: Health Care” »
This week’s strip ran late. Sorry. This time the problem wasn’t a lack of time to do a strip, but how much time it took to draw this one. Lots of action and poses and details. As for the theme, or “message”: Well… the Trump candidacy is the closest thing to a fascist movement I have … Read More “Fetch: Fascists” »
