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Welcome to my friend and now collaborator Frank Young, who colored this cartoon. There’s no way I could do justice to Frank’s resume – cartoonist, novelist, former editor of the Comics Journal , author of many nonfiction books about classic comics, and curator of many fine collections of classic comics. The first time Frank colored this cartoon, he colored it like a regular cartoon – you know, with actual colors and stuff. I had to ask him to try again, this time using the sort of very limited palettes I usually prefer. I’m very happy with how the finished cartoon came out. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels, plus a small “kicker” panel below the bottom of the strip. Each of the panels shows the same scene; two humans, and an anthropomorphized coronavirus (with a perfectly round head and little things sticking out of the head in every direction). Other than that, the corona virus has an ordinary human body. The two humans are a woman with shoulder-length hair, ...

If you enjoy these cartoons, be part of making more! Support the patreon ! TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels, each showing a different scene. PANEL 1 Most of this panel is taken up by very large, rough lettering, the title of the cartoon. “SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE CORONAVIRUS HAS ALWAYS BEEN WITH US.” In the bottom of the comic, a woman is leaning on her elbows, looking wistfully out an upper floor window of a house. WOMAN (thought): I can’t remember the last time I put on pants. PANEL 2 In the foreground, a woman in a Shakespearean-style gown is frantically washing her hands and yelling. Behind her, a man peeks through a doorway, holding up a forefinger in a “making a point” gesture and speaking very cheerfully. They are Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. LADY MACBETH: OUT, DAMNED SPOT! OUT I SAY! MACBETH: Remember to do that for at least twenty seconds, hon! PANEL 3 The panel shows several people hanging on crosses in Rome sometime in the first century. In the f...

This cartoon was inspired by this Dean Baker essay . If you like these cartoons, help me make more by supporting my Patreon ! A $1 or $2 pledge really matters. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has five panels, plus a small “kicker” panel under the cartoon. All of the panels show the same setting: a sidewalk next to a grassy field with a couple of scattered trees. PANEL 1 A balding man is talking on his cell phone, ranting to a friend or perhaps calling in to talk radio. He’s wearing a short sleeved shirt with a “!” on front. Behind him, Bill Gates is walking up to him with a friendly expression, raising a forefinger in a “making a point” gesture. MAN: I say, Bill Gates earned every dollar of his $108 billion! The government had nothing to do with it! BILL GATES: Actually, that’s not true. PANEL 2 The man, turning around, jumps with surprise. MAN: Gasp! Bill Gates! GATES: I owe my fortune to the biggest government giveaway of all… Copyright law! PANEL 3 A close-up of ...

If you enjoy these cartoons, help me make more by supporting my Patreon ! A $1 pledge really helps. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has five panels, plus a small “kicker” panel below the bottom of the final panel. PANEL 1 This is a title panel, showing a sedate arrangement of flowers in front of a vase. That’s all just the background for the lettering, which says: “Another edifying episode of… Billionaires discuss Economics” PANEL 2 A middle aged-man sits in a high-backed desk chair; there is a desk in front of him, with a laptop and a cup of coffee on a saucer. He’s reading a magazine called “Tax Dodge Monthly.” But at this moment he’s looked up from the magazine to address the viewer, smiling. SEATED MAN: Giving poor people handouts creates a culture of dependency, so the best way to help is to give them nothing. PANEL 3 A younger man, wearing glasses and a Yale tee shirt, stands on a tennis court, holding a tennis racket over one shoulder. He speaks to the reader, loo...

If you like these cartoons, please support them on Patreon! A $1 pledge really helps. This cartoon is another collaboration between me and the wonderful Becky Hawkins. As well as political cartoons, Becky and I collaborate on the webcomic SuperButch – hey, did I tell you folks SuperButch won a Prism Award ? – and of course please check out Becky’s solo work . My favorite parts of this cartoon – the extreme perspective in panel 2, the red panel, and the spiral lettering – were all Becky’s ideas. That’s the best part of collaboration, for me – seeing the ideas that Becky comes up with that I hadn’t even considered when I wrote the script. Becky and I work well together because we think about comics similarly in many ways – but its our dissimilarities I enjoy the most. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has five panels. PANEL 1 We can see five people around a table in a business conference room (although there are probably more people around the table, we’re only seeing part...