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I consciously choose to focus most of my comics on long-term social justice issues, rather than commenting on current news stories. But sometimes it feels impossible not to comment. There’s a supporting blogpost and transcript about this cartoon here;...
by Barry Deutsch
 9 comments
on Thu May 09, 2024 at 07:53 AM PDT
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Speak up, Joe.
by Hilmbrown
3 comments
on Wed May 08, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
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I started work on this 2021 cartoon on November 28, 2006. (Or at least, that's when my computer tells me this file was created). I had the idea and wrote a bunch of panels, but I wasn't happy with them, so I left it in my folder of unfinished cartoons....
by Barry Deutsch
83 comments
on Mon May 06, 2024 at 10:44 AM PDT
with 425 Recommends
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This cartoon is by me and R. E. Ryan. Transcript, comments, and a blog post about this cartoon are here, and I’ll also post the transcript in comments. I make a living because of hundreds of supporters pledging low amounts - $1-$3 - and that's just how...
by Barry Deutsch
16 comments
on Fri May 03, 2024 at 10:29 AM PDT
with 148 Recommends
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This cartoon is by me and Kevin Moore. Transcript, comments, and a blog post about this cartoon are here, and I’ll also post the transcript in comments. I make a living because of hundreds of supporters pledging low amounts - $1-$3 - and that's just...
by Barry Deutsch
9 comments
on Thu May 02, 2024 at 09:58 AM PDT
with 57 Recommends
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Pure corruption.
by Hilmbrown
15 comments
on Wed May 01, 2024 at 06:41 AM PDT
with 124 Recommends
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by Hilmbrown
14 comments
on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 06:45 AM PDT
with 134 Recommends
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We’re celebrating Earth Day today by highlighting the benefits of clean energy and solar power. Did you know that solar power is saving families and schools millions of dollars a year off of their energy bills? It’s putting “money in the bank” to be...
by jamiewertz
6 comments
on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 06:49 AM PDT
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Where I live in the Northeast, things are two weeks ahead of normal. But what is normal any more…?
by Hilmbrown
3 comments
on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 08:09 AM PDT
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And older cartoon but forever relevant...
by Hilmbrown
6 comments
on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 07:41 AM PDT
with 37 Recommends
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It’s absolutely terrifying how close we are to mortally wounding our 250-year-old democracy.
by Hilmbrown
4 comments
on Wed Mar 13, 2024 at 07:17 AM PDT
with 36 Recommends
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In this comic, clean energy nonprofit Generation180 and John Klossner take a look at the reality of the carbon offset landscape today.
by jamiewertz
7 comments
on Wed Feb 14, 2024 at 07:36 AM PST
with 39 Recommends
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We should be very afraid of the overt effort to dismantle the administrative state that a Trump presidency would bring.
by Hilmbrown
17 comments
on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 06:21 AM PST
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Just read this terrifying book — The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder — which details the massive extent of the Russian disinformation campaign. It’s not actually a joke. But then this is a cartoon...
by Hilmbrown
4 comments
on Thu Jan 25, 2024 at 06:05 AM PST
with 31 Recommends
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Not my greatest, but I am totally freaked out by the sense that truth and reality are simply irrelevant to half the country.
by Hilmbrown
18 comments
on Wed Jan 17, 2024 at 08:02 AM PST
with 82 Recommends
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Sec. 1 of Amendment 28: All republicans are hereby disenfranchised. Sec 2 of Amendment 28: All Republicans have to turn in Putin bribe money to the US Treasury by midnight Jan 6, 2024. Warrants for Sedition go out one minute after midnight. (Thank you,...
by Bob Quick
7 comments
on Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 11:51 AM PST
with 19 Recommends
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Trump gives vermin a bad name...
by Hilmbrown
2 comments
on Wed Nov 29, 2023 at 07:30 AM PST
with 30 Recommends
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Lukovich nails it as usual.
by winetourdriver
4 comments
on Sat Nov 25, 2023 at 03:06 AM PST
with 7 Recommends
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by PresidentOso
1 comments
on Thu Nov 23, 2023 at 08:38 AM PST
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I wish the media would stop treating this a horse race between equally plausible candidates.
by Hilmbrown
19 comments
on Wed Nov 15, 2023 at 07:54 AM PST
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