This comic is the result of a “yes, and” writing process, much like improv comedy, but with the added refinements that come with the cartooning process. Start with an alarm going off, warning of fascism. Who answers the alarm? A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The late posting of this week’s cartoon owes mostly to life distractions as much to my lack of preparation, so I apologize for the oversight. Or lack of oversight, as the case may be. It’s funny to me that a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Twenty years after the invasion of Iraq, an American ex-president is being charged with crimes and a world leader has been indicted for war crimes. These things are not related. George W Bush, like his father before him, will never[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last week a school principal in Florida was forced to resign, because a few parents got upset over a photo of Michelangelo’s David in a textbook. The school board claims the principal had failed to properly notify parents in advance[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over the past year the literary world has been debating the appropriateness of teaching or reading Russian literature. In Ukraine, streets named after Lermontov and Dostoevsky, big hawks of Russian expansionism, are being renamed after writers who supported Ukrainian independence.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee recently signed a bill to ban drag queen performances in public spaces and in front of minors, and to severely restrict health care services to trans youth. I was born in that state and have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ChatGPT and other AI services have taken hold of the imaginations and fears of the artistic, academic, and librarian circles I run in. There seems to be some vague potential for something positive down the road, but right now it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Greg Sargent and Jeet Heer have written good pieces about the right wing seizure upon the lackluster federal and state response to the Norfolk train disaster in East Palestine to fan White resentment and victimhood. As Greg writes: What this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Roger Waters gave Pink Floyd fans a lot to talk about recently. His interview with the German magazine Bilder included his criticism of Israeli policy toward Palestinians (good) framed in analogies to the Nazi genocide of the Jews (bad); criticism[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I try to avoid using Orwellian tropes in my work, because they get overused in political discourse, and often misused. But when the right keeps using the law to remove books and forbid teaching on subjects that make them uncomfortable[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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