Brian McFadden

Emergency Obituary Cartoons   Recently updated !

This entry was posted in comics and tagged Mitch McConnell Republicans Senate on by
Read the comic on Patreon.

I have a part-time day job, so my ability to draw breaking news is pretty limited. I wanted to get these out there in case Mitch McConnell’s alleged aliveness over the last few weeks is finally debunked. Please don’t share until he’s really and most sincerely dead though. I wouldn’t want to be rude to one of the dudes most responsible for the current fascist state of things.

I might write more of my Mitch Thoughts when it officially happens, but since I spent a good chunk of my career drawing this ghoul, I wanted to get a cartoon out there. I was honestly kind of surprised he’s still a sitting senator. Since he passed the Senate Republican leadership over the Thune, he’s rarely made news except for falling down and glitching out.

Rest in piss, Mitch (Eventually)!

Read the comic on Patreon.

Climate Exhaustion or Climate Denial   Recently updated !

This entry was posted in comics and tagged climate climate change fossil fuel heat wave on by
Read the comic on Patreon.

A heat dome has settled over a good chunk of the United States, including New England, where it’s already 95°F/35°C, and expected to pass 100°F/38°C tomorrow. This has resulted in the usual media frenzy of informing people about the signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke, all while undermining the seriousness of the threat with B-roll of people having fun at the beach or something similar.

Thousands have died in Europe’s most recent heat wave, since everything there was built for mild summers, before record heat became the new normal. Many Americans have been pretty smug about it, like their window units aren’t costing them hundreds of dollars a month with our antiquated electric grid. Before anyone gloats about their heat pumps and solar, please remember that I rent and my apartment’s currently too hot for your homeowning bullshit.

Stay cool, and be cool this weekend. Don’t let the climate deniers take all of us out with them.

Read the comic on Patreon.
Read the comic on Daily Kos.
Read the comic on GoComics.

America’s 250th Non-Essentials

This entry was posted in comics and tagged America's 250th deregulation guns July 4 Patreon on by
Read the comic only on Patreon.

This month’s cartoon for Exclusive Early Access members is about throwing your own half-assed celebration for America’s 250th birthday. Why should the administration get a monopoly on semiquincentennial scams?

As the media market collapses, and more publications try to shove A.I. illustrations in readers’ faces, my income has become more reliant on direct contributions from readers themselves. Rather than wave a tin cup around and beg constantly, I try to provide some actual content for your hard-earned cash.

Just $1 per month (or less than $10 annually) gets you access to my weekly cartoons as soon as I finish them. Free members can see them a couple days later, without ads, algorithms, and comments from weirdos.

$5 per month (or $48 annually) gets you all that, plus a bonus cartoon every month, and a hand-drawn random holiday card every year.

I’m also trying out livestreams and other bonus content. Members at all levels will get to help me workshop it and figure out a regular schedule for the fall.

Join today!

Reflecting Pool Party

This entry was posted in comics and tagged DC Donald Trump JD Vance JJ Carafo Karoline Leavitt Marco Rubio Pete Hegseth on by
Read the comic on Patreon.

The Reflecting Pool Saga has been an amusing synecdoche for this administration’s incompetence. Unlike everything else they’ve touched, no actual people have been killed (yet, and sorry to diminish the lives of those poor ducks), although several have been arrested for touching the paint that JJ Carafo was paid $1.7 million to slap on there before it immediately started peeling.

Somehow people manage to maintain large pools throughout the world, even in Florida, without them becoming toxic sludge within a week. But every contractor who knows what they’re doing knows Trump doesn’t honor contracts, so only grifters were left to do the grifter-in-chief’s work for his tacky 250th July 4th celebrations in DC.

Our country stinks, but I’ll be celebrating anyway, eating lobster rolls somewhere away from all the tourists in Boston for the holiday, and watching illegal fireworks neighbors smuggled south from New Hampshire. I hope you’ll be having some fun over the long weekend too.

Read the comic on Patreon.
Read the comic on Daily Kos.
Read the comic on GoComics.

New Cards for 2026

This entry was posted in comics and tagged Donald Trump FIFA football ICE infrastructure soccer transit World Cup on by
Read the comic on Patreon.

The World Cup is underway in North America, and these cards should only be applied for games played in the United States. There’s no way Canada and Mexico can fuck things up at the same level as our rapidly declining empire.

I’ve been watching some of the group stage matches, and running into wonderful crowds of Scots, Haitians, and Norwegians in Boston while they party and wait to be herded onto our slapped together commuter rail route to Foxboro. This is normally a line that only functions for NFL, MLS, and concerts, since not a lot of people live out there for regular commuting purposes.

A month of matches has put strain on that system, so the MBTA has diverted trains from other routes to support the increased volume. Getting people to Foxboro has gone rather smoothly, since they can stagger the trains, but everyone at the stadium obviously wants to leave as soon as the games end and that’s led to some clusterfucks, but everyone’s having fun.

Except for Iran’s team, who’ve been forced to hop on planes immediately after their US games since we’re being dicks and not allowing them to stay overnight. It’s pettiness like this that makes Trump’s surrendering to Iran to end the war he started utterly humiliating for him and everyone stupid enough to think that war was gonna turn out any other way.

Read the comic on Patreon.
Read the comic on Daily Kos.
Read the comic on GoComics.

America’s Pest Threats

This entry was posted in comics and tagged Donald Trump Elon Musk John Roberts RFK Jr. Stephen Miller voter suppression Voting Rights Act on by
Read the comic on Patreon.

Once eradicated in the United States, screwworms are back thanks to this administration. I only knew about botflies previously, and apparently they’re nicer than screwworms, since they typically don’t kill their host.

I was already squicked out by bugs thanks to my blister beetle encounter (May’s exclusive comic for $5/mo patrons), and this screwworm news will be keeping me far away from any county fair livestock this summer.

Does this cartoon have any nuance or satire beyond “These guys are gross and they literally suck?” No, but I had fun drawing it and I think I captured RFK Jr.’s true form.

Read the comic on Patreon.
Read the comic on Daily Kos.
Read the comic on GoComics.

Bari Minutes’ New Hosts

This entry was posted in comics and tagged Bari Weiss CBS David Ellison Larry Ellison media Paramount propaganda on by
Read the comic on Patreon.

It’s been a few months since Bari shitcanned 60 Minutes’ CECOT story, and now she’s fired Scott Pelley. I guess he’s popular with your grandparents, I dunno. This is a PBS Frontline house and I have no idea what’s going on over at CBS News.

The hosts who stay and help Bari and the Ellisons’ use 60 Minutes to launder their hamfisted propaganda don’t even need the money. Most of these people have been hosting this show since I was a toddler.

I watched the finale of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, and now I’m back to my CBS boycott, which is not a difficult sacrifice at all.

Read the comic on Patreon.
Read the comic on Daily Kos.
Read the comic on GoComics.