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Pariah State Comedy Festival

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Today’s the anniversary of the killing of Jamal Kashoggi while the Riyadh Comedy Festival is currently going on featuring some of the most shameless cash grabbers in the business. Many of them have made their careers decrying “cancel culture” but eagerly signed a contract that literally restricts their speech.

None are real surprises, and neither will their unwillingness to accept any criticism about taking the gig. When they get back, they can all whine about the “woke” public’s reaction during a performance at Trump’s Kennedy Center.

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Republican Freedom Fighters

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The fascist crybullies have been hard at work snitching ever since Charlie Kirk’s assassination. From lowly employees’ rude social media posts, to hosts of late night shows, they’re giddy that the power of the state is being used to threaten anyone who points out they’re all fascist creeps. You can denounce political violence without lauding a guy who made a lucrative career promoting it. In fact, you should.

But now that most mainstream media is owned by one variety of billionaire asshole or another, you probably won’t be allowed on TV to say it.

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Coming Soon to CBS

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CBS/Paramount started cleaning house to meet our demented, rapist dictator’s demands and got their merger with Skydance approved. Last week they announced the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, despite it being at the top of the big three networks’ late night shows. There’s still a year left of the show, which seems kinda stupid, but they were trying to meet the demands of the world’s most powerful stupid person.

I’m not a retired Boomer, so I’m not in the target demo for most of CBS’s offerings. I am however, a fan of Star Trek, and currently Strange New Worlds, which spawned as a solution to Discovery’s own convoluted “Oops! All Mirror Universe/Time Travel” problems. I hope they don’t do a Mirror Universe episode this season, or another musical one for that matter.

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Budget Spring Books

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I returned to the fake books bit because the James Carville idea wouldn’t get out of my head. His face is on fundraising texts and he still pops up on the news, so I kept trying to write a whole comic about that skeleton man. Especially one where he’s offering advice from the early ’90s, while Ross Perot is Mr. Magooing his way in the background doing the real work. That is a 32+ year-old idea that even I shouldn’t remember. (I was 12 during that election.)

And by putting him in one panel, I spared the world multiple panels of extreme gross-ups.

I’m going to be in northern New England for Monday’s eclipse, so hopefully that’ll give me a chance to tear through my own pile of real books … if I don’t burn my retinas off.

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Winter Book Bargains

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I’m not traveling far for Thanksgiving, but I still have to get a cartoon done early for everyone who is.

It’s been a while since I did a cartoon even referencing COVID, but it is still out there thanks to everyone getting bored with mitigating it. I got my booster and still wear a mask when around sloppy strangers indoors. I recommend it to everyone who enjoys not getting sick.

Have a great long weekend if you’re lucky enough to not have to work retail during it!

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Republican Textbook Fair

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My birthday and the long weekend almost coincide, so I’m getting this out early. Stores are already past back-to-school season and stocked with Halloween junk, but it’s still summer to me and my poor beleaguered air conditioners.

The attempts by Republican-led states to rewrite history seems laughable, but we got everyone to forget a pandemic that’s still happening, so anything’s possible.

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Ron DeSantis’s Book Club

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Here is a sort of a sequel to this cartoon from last August. DeSantis keeps escalating his fascist grip on Florida while national Democrats are spending their time crowing about “bipartisan” infrastructure and doing fuck-all else.

While I doubt DeSantis has national appeal, ceding one of our largest state’s populace to his goonish whims is less than ideal. “Just VOTE!” when the guy you want to be voted out has already disenfranchised his way into landslide re-elections.

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Ron DeSantis’s Back-to-School Rules

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Florida governor Ron DeSantis and Republicans in general have spent years demonizing teachers and cutting their funding, and are now dealing with teacher shortages as the school year begins. They’re sending cops and troops in to fill the vacancies, which I’m sure will end well.

One thing I’ve learned the last year or so of drawing this guy is that he’s always doing a third-rate Trump impression. He went to fancy schools, and can never nail it without adding a car dealership vibe to Trump’s awfulness.

Impression critique aside, he’s a fascist actively planning to steal elections. And unfortunately, Florida still has a lot of electoral votes that could decide the fate of the entire country.

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