15 quotes
Cartoons are a great medium for demonstrating just how absurd something is, without ever having to say it directly.
Interview in Attitude: The New Subversive Cartoonists edited by Ted Rall (2002)
People are suckers for plausible narratives that confirm stereotypes, no matter how untrue they may be.
Slowpoke: One Nation, Oh My God! (2008)
My goal with 'Slowpoke' is to present a solidly-written piece of humor that usually entails some form of social or political commentary exposing distinctly ludicrous aspects of American life.
Interview in Attitude (2002)
We cartoonists have a term for the instances when multiple cartoonists inadvertently draw the same thing: a Yahtzee.
Slowpoke: One Nation, Oh My God! (2008)
Writers create so much value in the entertainment industry, it is criminal what a small percentage of the profits they get.
Slowpoke: One Nation, Oh My God! (2008)
One of the worst Bush administration acts you haven't heard about is their giving the green light to mountaintop removal mining.
Slowpoke: One Nation, Oh My God! (2008)
It's a classic Republican maneuver: redefining massive global conglomerates as YOU.
Slowpoke: One Nation, Oh My God! (2008)
This is how politics works in the age of right-wing media domination: invoke a powerful stereotype, preferably in the form of a carefully-crafted sound bite, and people forget to think.
Slowpoke: One Nation, Oh My God! (2008)
It's appalling how the puritanically correct in this country fixate on homosexuality to the exclusion of grave moral issues like the suffering of innocents in Iraq.
Slowpoke: One Nation, Oh My God! (2008)
Democrats remain consistently cowed by the threat of Republicans calling them "weak on terror." They're going to be smeared no matter what, so they may as well go on the offensive.
Slowpoke: One Nation, Oh My God! (2008)
I'm not sure how Bush's "ownership society"-that fun-sounding euphemism for paying for everything from your healthcare to your retirement out of your own savings-is supposed to work if people don't earn enough to own anything.
Slowpoke: One Nation, Oh My God! (2008)
The Bush administration flatly denies plans for "permanent military bases," which according to the Opposite Rule that applies to everything the Bushies say, means we are building permanent military bases.
Slowpoke: One Nation, Oh My God! (2008)
I'm ethically conflicted about eating something smarter than my dog
Slowpoke: One Nation, Oh My God! (2008)
the excesses of the credit card industry illustrate why we need consumer protections.
Slowpoke: One Nation, Oh My God! (2008)
There's often a "freedom from" that is the flip side of "freedom to." Isaiah Berlin wrote about this in his famous essay, "Two Concepts of Liberty." In an age when the word "freedom" is so abused, its double-edged nature is important to remember.
Slowpoke: One Nation, Oh My God! (2008)