Brian McFadden – Cartoonist. Illustrator. Jokesmith.

The NYC Pandering Primary — New York’s primary matters for the first time in decades, and all of the remaining candidates are doing some campaign pandering in the Big Apple. Events are scheduled in the rest of the state of course, but with 8 million people, and the headquarters of the media, there’s been substantially […]

The NYC Pandering Primary

Backward Bills — North Carolina’s legislature and its Governor Pat McCrory rushed an anti-LGBT, particularly anti-trans, “bathroom bill” in order to protect citizens from the non-existent problem of bathroom fraud. The bill essentially prevents local municipalities from doing decent things like preventing discrimination and raising the minimum wage. Mississippi soon followed with their […]

North Carolina’s Backward Bills

Brant prep — If you’re in Boston April 5-29, stop by MassArt’s Brant Gallery to look at my cartoons. A lot of effort and beers went into framing the physical prints, and two digital displays will feature more of my work. There’s an opening reception Tuesday, April 5th from 5:30 to 7pm. I’ll […]

Exhibition at MassArt’s Brant Gallery

Right-Wing Stuntman — Ted Cruz is the Republican Party’s last chance to pull their nomination away from Trump, even though his policies and people skills are just as terrible, if not worse. After the bombings in Brussels, Cruz advocated for policing and monitoring of Muslim communities in the US. If that’s better than Trump’s […]

Right-Wing Stuntman

Absentee Excuses — I previously picked on Mitch McConnell for stonewalling President Obama just hours after Scalia kicked the bucket. McConnell’s Republican pals on the Senate Judiciary Committee are pulling the same crap and refusing to even meet with Merrick Garland. They really have no endgame, this is just obstruction for obstruction’s sake. Read […]

The Judiciary Committee’s Absentee Excuses

Total Electoral Eclipse — Trump’s malignant shadow is obscuring everything else going on in the world. The ugliness of his campaign and its supporters is certainly newsworthy, but we’ll have a lot of catching up to do if and when the Trump phenomenon fades. I wrote and drew this before Neil deGrasse Tyson proved […]

Total Electoral Eclipse

Establishment Man with a Plan — Willard “Mitt” Romney is back in the news, and I’ll never pass up an opportunity to needle this man. As a freelancer, I didn’t have health insurance until he created RomneyCare. He then spent the next decade campaigning on the promise to take it away. There’s nothing more “phony” or “fraudulent” […]

The GOP’s Establishment Man with a Plan

Decrypted Device Files — The FBI and our alphabet of intelligence agencies have been salivating over the prospect of an encryption back door for years. The San Bernardino shootings are just the most recent pretext to weaken privacy protections. Here’s a primer on the FBI vs. Apple fight that’s easy to read even for people […]

The FBI’s Decrypted Device Files

Wish List of Supreme Court Nominees — Justice Scalia had the gall to croak during Obama’s presidency, so Senate Republicans are going to obstruct the appointment of his successor. I doubt stalling Scalia’s replacement is a great strategy. Even if he thinks a Republican will win in November, McConnell can’t seriously think whomever Trump (gah!), Cruz (gross!) or Rubio (duh!) would pick is worth losing […]

Mitch McConnell’s Wish List of Supreme Court Nominees

Campaign Gaffe Forecast — We’re in the thick of primary season and the gaffes will increase from now until at least Super Tuesday. Prepare yourself by hoarding decent reading material until this whole election thing blows over. Read the comic at The New York Times.

Campaign Gaffe Forecast

Campaign Swag Bag — The primaries have just begun, and the party in-fighting will get even more heated for another month or so, making social media a veritable wasteland of outrage and insufferability. When the dust settles and the nominee is known, they’ll have to kiss and make up with the supporters of the candidates they’ve spent all […]

Campaign Swag Bag

Climate Change Denial Winter Exercises — Denying climate change exists because it’s cold out is just the tip of the rapidly melting denial iceberg. Unfortunately it’s a well-funded iceberg that’s kept afloat by the indifference of folks who’ll be dead before they’ll have to deal with the consequences of their consumption. Read the comic at The New York Times.

Climate Change Denial Winter Exercises