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Friday August 30, 2019 · 2:50 PM PDT

2019/08/30 · 14:50

I'm sure the sandwiches are great, but I want the lines to go down so I can get the family meals without having to bring a tent.

Cartoon: PharmaGon: Your antidote to profit-based killing

Mark Fiore for Comics

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Friday August 30, 2019 · 4:50 AM PDT

2019/08/30 · 04:50

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The opioid-pushing pharmaceutical companies may finally be forced to pay some of their billions to help remediate the crisis they helped manufacture. The state of Oklahoma won a big court victory against Johnson & Johnson, the huge corporation that downplayed the risks of opioids while keeping the country awash in their deadly product.

Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries supplied 60% of the ingredients in all painkillers sold across the country. While opioids were initially used in extreme cases like cancer and end-of-life pain management, drug companies aggressively expanded their market and downplayed the risks.

Now that Oklahoma scored a victory over opioids (which were being prescribed at the rate of 479 prescriptions every hour in the state), next up is a mega-lawsuit brought by 40 states made up of 2,000 plaintiffs. The corporate opioid-pushers have killed hundreds of thousands of people across the country in the name of profit. Here’s hoping the billions they lose in court will help rein in these deadly pain pills. (Btw, for more about this cartoon and other behind-the-scenes videos and prints, you can support me over on my Patreon page.)

Cartoon: Super-Fun-Pak Comix, feat. Gibbon the Ocelot and more!

RubenBolling for Comics

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Thursday August 29, 2019 · 4:50 AM PDT

2019/08/29 · 04:50

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Cartoon: Media shout out

Matt Bors for Comics

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Wednesday August 28, 2019 · 4:50 AM PDT

2019/08/28 · 04:50

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Cartoon: Vice mayor

keefknight for Comics

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Tuesday August 27, 2019 · 2:50 PM PDT

2019/08/27 · 14:50

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Cartoon: Suspicious minds

Jen Sorensen for Comics

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Tuesday August 27, 2019 · 4:50 AM PDT

2019/08/27 · 04:50

This is actually a slightly-revised comic from 2006 that appeared only in a few places. I thought it deserved a second airing as we plunge headlong into climate crisis, with the Amazon burning and Bolsonaro blaming NGOs for the fires. The strip was initially inspired by Michael Crichton's novel State of Fear, which suggested that environmental groups were just using global warming as a scare tactic to raise money. As I wrote at the time:

This meme is astoundingly prevalent in right-wing media. Readers have emailed me parroting it. I only wish they would take that healthy skepticism and apply it to the groups denying global warming, which tend to be libertarian think tanks that oppose any efforts to protect the public from the excesses of industry. [2019 interjection: See the recently-departed David Koch.] Nope, no political or financial motives there! Much more likely that global warming is all about Greenpeace getting better office furniture.

In hindsight, I probably could have used a better example in the last panel than Mother Teresa. Her legacy, as several readers have pointed out, is problematic. When I was a kid, Mother Teresa was often invoked as a kind of jokey metaphor for altruism -- she was practically a cartoon character. I was drawing on that memory here, before knowing the particulars.

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Cartoon: With us or against us

Tom Tomorrow for Daily Kos

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Monday August 26, 2019 · 5:00 AM PDT

2019/08/26 · 05:00

Note: this is a slightly-edited version of a cartoon that initially ran in 2008—I took a small vacation last week. (Click beneath the fold to see a couple highlights!) Still catching up on everything I missed — apparently Trump is our god emperor now?

Also: There’s some new stuff in the store!

Cartoon: Where are former Trump officials being normalized now?

BrianMcFadden for Comics

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Friday August 23, 2019 · 2:50 PM PDT

2019/08/23 · 14:50

These people are never going to change, and unless they’re prosecuted for their crimes, it’ll happen again. That’s not going to happen, so they should at least be shunned from TV and cushy columnists gigs.

Cartoon: Sabotaging America first

Mark Fiore for Comics

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Friday August 23, 2019 · 4:50 AM PDT

2019/08/23 · 04:50

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If there is anything wrong with our economy — and I’m sure there isn’t because growth and boom times will last forever in our new reality — it’s because of an expansive conspiracy to undermine our beloved President Trump. He is, after all, the Chosen One.

It is very interesting, and particularly unnerving, to imagine Trump leading the nation during an economic crisis like the Great Recession implosion of 2008. Something tells me we would be fighting over scraps of food in the streets now had he been in charge back then.

I’m not saying we’re in a recession or even immediately headed for one, I sure hope we aren’t. But the mixed messages coming out of the White House do not bode well for when the boom times end. Enjoy the cartoon — and be sure to check out more goodies over on Patreon, where you can help support my work!

Cartoon: Terrorism detective

RubenBolling for Comics

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Thursday August 22, 2019 · 4:50 AM PDT

2019/08/22 · 04:50

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