Monthly Archives: September 2015

Free Market Pharmacy

This entry was posted in comics and tagged John Boehner pharmaceuticals Planned Parenthood. on September 28, 2015 by Brian McFadden

Everyone had a good week hating on Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund bro who became a pharmaceutical patent troll. His loathsome and tone-deaf response to the outrage makes him very easy to hate. But he’s just a symptom of the entire pharmaceutical industry, which holds people’s health hostage in order to extort the highest possible prices out of the public.

This could be the last time I’ve drawn John Boehner. His resignation comes at a perfect time, because I was just about to run out of orange pixels.

Read the comic at the New York Times.

High School Science Fear

This entry was posted in comics and tagged guns Islamophobia racism science on September 21, 2015 by Brian McFadden

Ahmed Mohamed made a clock, brought it to school, and every adult there went out of their Islamophobic minds. Ahmed became an overnight celebrity and received lots of accolades and cool swag. Then the Ahmed-truthers came out and ruined that feel-good ending because people are terrible.

Read the comic at The New York Times.

Rupert Murdoch’s National Geographic

This entry was posted in comics and tagged climate change Fox News Rupert Murdoch on September 14, 2015 by Brian McFadden

I was bummed when I heard Rupert Murdoch was purchasing National Geographic. I haven’t read it regularly in years, but it was a huge part of my childhood; right up there with “Highlights” and “MAD” magazine. Now that it’s owned by a climate change skeptic who’s also the progenitor of toxic cable and tabloid news, I won’t be picking it up the next time I’m waiting at the dentist’s office.

Read the comic at the New York Times.

Public Servants on Strike

This entry was posted in comics and tagged immigration refugees same-sex marriage Syria on September 7, 2015 by Brian McFadden

Kim Davis’ publicity stunt of denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples reached its inevitable conclusion last week. She’s in jail and will probably stay there until she signs a lucrative book deal. If everyone was allowed to deny public accommodations to anyone because of their “strongly-held” beliefs, everything would grind to a halt and the world would be an even uglier place.

The final panel’s a reference to the Syrian refugee crisis that’s been unfolding for years, but could apply equally to the rising amounts of nationalism and general anti-immigrant fervor being fomented by the GOP’s current crop of know-nothings.