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Billionaires Discuss Economics

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...

Sexist Joke

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...