Yearly Archives: 2026

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This entry was posted in comics and tagged AG Sulzberger media NYTimes on October 30, 2026 by Brian McFadden

The week before a big election has always been a tough one, and after 2004, I learned my lesson to never count on a result going the way I wrote it. So today I decided to go after an evergreen topic: The vapidity of opinion columnists, particularly at the New York Times.

The paper that once hired me to draw cartoons for six years has taken a hard-right turn since AG Sulzberger took the reins into his soft nepo-baby hands. The opinion columns have always reflected the world through the eyes of wealthy, out-of-touch psuedo-intellectuals, but now there’s little more than anti-trans hate, warmongering, or culture war stuff the rest of us can’t afford to care about.

Tune in next week, unless martial law is declared after the midterm results come in.

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Elon Musk’s Last-Minute Midterm Pitches

This entry was posted in comics and tagged 2026 Midterms Elon Musk on October 24, 2026 by Brian McFadden

Elon Musk’s spending a fortune (for us, pocket change for him) to boost Republicans’ dwindling midterm hopes for retaining Congress.

I’d write more, but I gotta go to a real job, unlike this pant-load, who spends all day pickling his brain online while making billions promising nonsense to gullible marks.

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White House Press Secretary Auditions

This entry was posted in comics and tagged Bari Weiss Jeffrey Epstein Katie Zacharia White House on October 17, 2026 by Brian McFadden

Katie Zacharia started as the White Press Secretary this week and even though bar is through the floor, it was rough stuff. The ones from the second term are going to make Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee and Kayleigh McEnany look like the greatest orators of the 21st Century. There was another one in the first administration but I don’t remember anything about her.

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Budget Halloween Decor

This entry was posted in comics and tagged artificial intelligence Halloween RFK Jr. Scabby the Rat on October 9, 2026 by Brian McFadden

I spend my day job driving to and all around the wealthier Boston ‘burbs, and have seen many elaborate, and undoubtedly expensive Halloween displays over the last week. You can keep your $300 12-foot skeletons, nothing beats the charm of the D.I.Y. decorations, handmade by kids of all ages.

Ages ago there were readers who’d incorporate my jokes into their Halloween displays. They’d send me photos and it was delightful. I hope they’re doing well, wherever they are.

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A.I.’s Rogue Hallucinations

This entry was posted in comics and tagged Anthropic artificial intelligence ChatGPT Facebook Google OpenAI on October 2, 2026 by Brian McFadden

Since their last outburst didn’t goose their revenue, the A.I. Tech Bros. new hype message is that artificial intelligence is going “rogue” and so dangerous that it needs to be regulated. This is their way of ensuring they get federal bailout money when the bubble bursts and takes the real economy down with it.

America.gov is a real chatbot put out by the administration to tell lies to the biggest rubes on the internet. It’s dumb as shit, but still smarter than Eric Schmitt.

Once again, I left Microsoft out of the comic. Not because they’re good, but because my PC is so old that I don’t get the push notifications to use Copilot or whatever they’re calling their A.I. garbage these days.

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Ellison Television

This entry was posted in comics and tagged CBS David Ellison David Zaslav Larry Ellison media Paramount television Tony Dokoupil on September 26, 2026 by Brian McFadden

With an assist from California governor Gavin Newsom, Paramount/Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. seems to be going through. So binge watch your HBO watchlists before all the shows get replaced with propaganda or Taylor Sheridan shows.

Larry Ellison funded these mergers based on the flimsy value of his tech portfolio, which is propped up by the A.I. bubble that’s going to burst any minute now. I’m not an accelerationist, but if the media collapses as a result, maybe there will be an opening for the return of independent alt-weeklies, and a desire to fill them with topical comics written by middle-aged dudes who picked the wrong career.

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Republicans’ Midterm Messaging

This entry was posted in comics and tagged 2026 Midterms Mike Johnson Republicans on September 16, 2026 by Brian McFadden

Here’s the companion comic to this one I did a couple weeks ago. Polls don’t vote, and I don’t have the time to look at them these days, so no matter what they say, it’s important to get these fascists out, or at least show empirically that they are incredibly loathed while they cling to power illegally.

If there is in fact a blowout, I’m not confident much will change. Unless you’re a very precocious 8-year-old, the same thing happened in the 2018 midterms and look where we are now: Living in an even shithole-ier country on a planet that’s burning.

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White House Mystery Meats

This entry was posted in comics and tagged Donald Trump food poisoning food supply Natalie Harp Stephen Miller Steven Cheung Susie Wiles on September 13, 2026 by Brian McFadden

These dummies are dedicated to giving everyone gastrointestinal distress by deregulating everything we eat. Relaxing USDA meat inspections is the latest non-solution to a problem that didn’t exist until they got back into power.

It took a lot of editorial control to leave RFK Jr. out of a cartoon about gross meat, but I drew him just a few weeks ago and drawing that rubbery face too often can cause a lot of eyeball damage.

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