When John Conyers, a representative from Michigan who has fought for the rights and betterment of American citizens for decades, introduced a bill to create a single payer health care system last January, few people paid attention. He got the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last week, between hurricanes, the president and the attorney general of the United States decided now was a good time to threaten the already precarious lives of immigrants who were brought to the US when they were children. The president[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For the record, allusions to the Prussian model of education are really a shorthand for the many shortcomings imposed on public education, and risk a lot of ahistorical easythink when approaching those problems. Audrey Waters argues in The Invented History[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have been creating webcomics for 15 (16? 17? I lose track) years now, but I have never figured out how to make a living at it. I have friends who do: some do very well, while others live as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you have not watched the Vice documentary of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, NC, I recommend doing so with a shot of whiskey and a box of tissues. It’s disturbing, gut-wrenching, and angry-making. The silver lining is that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The good news is that this week’s Fetch is less relevant than it was last week, when Kim Jong-un was threatening to nuke Guam and Donald Trump was goading him on with “tough guy” talk. How great was the actual[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s true. I spend too much time on Twitter these days. Like most cartoonists and other creative types, I use it to promote my work and connect with other artists, as well as folks I share interests with. Politics is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When my GF saw this, she said, “Wow, your brain weasels are worse than mine.” This year has been really rough financially for me. Despite a middle class income, I find it more and more difficult to get by in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Keeping up with recent events related to the TrumpAdmin’s Russia problems has been difficult lately. I started with a response to Trump’s creepy barely-veiled threat to fire Robert Mueller if he dared to investigate Trump family finances (Mueller went ahead[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week the Larsen B ice shelf sloughed off the coast of Antartica, generating headlines proclaiming it the size of two Lake Eries, two Luxembourgs, Delaware, or whatever point of reference a target audience could recognize. At first it seemed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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