Brian McFadden – Cartoonist. Illustrator. Jokesmith.

Transition Trial Balloons — The names being floated by the Trump transition are like horrible human Whack-A-Mole. I still can’t believe that I’ll be staring at these faces and drawing their atrocities for the next four years. Or until free speech is canceled, whichever comes first. Read the comic at The New York Times.

Transition Trial Balloons

White House Warning Signs — Obstructing the incoming administration is essential. Compromising with it is collaboration and should result in well-funded primary challengers. Read the comic at The New York Times.

White House Warning Signs

James Comey's Case Files — The FBI is meddling in the election, which isn’t new or surprising. It’s almost quaint when compared to their surveillance and harassment of other political organizations. Read the comic at The New York Times.

James Comey’s Case Files

Down and Out in the Senate Races — One week until Election Day, and you might be surprised to learn there are other races besides the presidential one going on. Even though the House is safely gerrymandered, the Senate majority is on the line. So make sure to vote for the other stuff on your ballot once you’re […]

Down and Out in the Senate Races

Curt Schilling: Live on Breitbart — Former Red Sox ace, and current social media doofus Curt Schilling has a radio show on Breitbart. If it’s anything like his other business ventures, it’ll be bankrupt within a year. Read the comic at The Nib.

Curt Schilling: Live on Breitbart

Donald Trump's Rigged World — The interminable election is finally reaching its end … if Trump deigns to accept the results. Read the comic at The New York Times.

Donald Trump’s Rigged World

Monster Unendorsements — There was another round of Republicans unendorsing their party’s nominee, and there will probably be another by the time you’re reading this. Despite all the vocal denouncements, they’re still going to vote for him. Dracula has more integrity. Read the comic at The New York Times.

Monster Unendorsements

Candidates Get Out the Vote — I drew and submitted this just before the audio of Trump’s assault comments came out, so I offer my apologies for the soft language in this cartoon. As the election crawls into its final weeks, human toad and hot ham enthusiast Scott Walker is busy disenfranchising as many of Wisconsin’s voters […]

The Candidates Get Out the Vote

The Prison Strike On-Screen — A prison labor strike has been going on since September 9, the anniversary of the Attica prison uprising. This comic by Sofie Louise Dam and this Mother Jones article explain their reasons and demands. The 13th Amendment’s slavery loophole gets covered in Ava DuVernay’s latest documentary “The 13th,” which arrives on Netflix […]

The Prison Strike On-Screen

Debate Punch Up — The debate’s in just a couple of hours, and the candidate’s are getting some last-minute coaching tips from 2012’s debate veterans. Read the comic at The Nib. I’ll be watching and livetweeting my snark and despair during the debate. Follow me if that’s something you’d want to see.

Debate Punch Up

Donald Trump's Tremendous Charities — Trump would clean out the “take a penny, leave a penny” tray before donating his actual money to charity. His charitable shenanigans have been well documented in a series of stories by David Farenthold. There’s also the grifting of campaign funds to pay companies owned by himself and his family. […]

Donald Trump’s Tremendous Charities

The Undecided Zone — You are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of undecided minds. Nobody reading this is an undecided voter. They are a mystery to me, and the outcome of the election depends on the handful of them in the states that are up for […]

The Undecided Zone