Monthly Archives: September 2026

Ellison Television

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(panel 1 - Title on a TV Guide parody with Larry and David Ellison.) Ellison Television
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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

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(panel 1 - Title on a lawn sign with the Republican logo.) Republicans' Midterm Messaging
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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

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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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Surveillance Innovations

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(panel 1 - Title on a surveillance monitor.) Surveillance Innovations
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Security cameras have been around forever, but now they’re all interconnected with live feeds available to any nosy pig or Fed. Flock cameras are taking a lot of the criticism lately, at town halls and beyond, because they’ve been aggressively sold to cities and towns as a security measure, but are really just a giant data collection operation.

Until a camera or A.I. can predict crime, which they never will, these surveillance tools only help companies and governments spy on regular people. Crime is at historic lows, but unfortunately paranoia and mistrust of neighbors has risen exponentially this century. Now the fears and insecurities that built our global panopticon are in the hands of straight-up fascists, here and abroad.

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