I technically started cartooning as a child, but I jumped back into it in about 2012, just for fun. That was shortly after starting this blog, where I’ve I’ve written hundreds of essays on philosophy, cognitive science, evolution, morality, religion, and politics.
That’s deeply satisfying, but then in 2016 I decided that visuals are so much punchier than the written word, and I could reach people better by drawing cartoons. Sharing a political cartoon makes your views known in an instant. It’s an argument you don’t have to make, with the impact built in.
Traditionally I’ve published new cartoons here, on my Patreon, on Twitter, and on Facebook.
You can see all of those on the Cartoons page. These are cartoons published on external sites/in print media.
Published cartoons
“Stop Protesting Police Brutality” was published on Politico on 6/12/20.
Kansas City Star
Police in Overland Park, Kansas, arrested a 13-year-old girl in 2019 on felony charges of “violent threats” for making finger gun gestures in school.
Wichita Eagle
Kansas State Senator Susan Wagle allegedly swapped her vote on casino slot machines in 2018 to win the friendship of Wichita native billionaire and Trump business partner Phil Ruffin, and then cited Ruffin as a reference on her application to Trump’s administration to become an ambassador to “a Catholic country.”
Kansas State Senator Susan Wagle attempted to block Medicaid expansion in Kansas as retribution for the failure of a proposed anti-abortion amendment to the constitution in the state house.