An Apology for Jerome & Jack Smith Responds & "Oh, the Humiliation!" by Daniel Boris

 

 

Lots of Baggage by Daniel Boris

 

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Access Excess"

"Access Excess"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4325

 

 

I can't even begin to pretend to care about the Donster kicking MSNOW
(the artist formerly known as MSNBC) and CNN (aka ZNN) out of the White
House. The anchor dollies at MSNOW can't seem to shut the hell up about
how their voices are being stifled and how the First Amendment is being
threatened by the denial of access to the Donster's daily
raving'n'drooling press conferences consisting of demented propaganda
babbling and not much else, and their inability to dutifully record said
raving'n'drooling to parrot back at the addled masses... or, as it's
known in the USA, "journalism".

Yeah, y'sure heard that right; the people who gave us Kuwaiti Incubator
Babies, Iraqi WMDs, Iraqi Yellow Cake Uranium, the Uyghur Muslims and
Russiagate – and have spent the last three years beating down public
dissent against the Gaza genocide – are screaming and yelling about free
speech 'cos they can't get a spot at the Donster's White House media
circle-jerk. You'll pardon my giving sub-zero fucks about any of those
kiss-asses.
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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org

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Super Duper Intelligence & The Preciousss GOP Playbook by Daniel Boris

 

A Pressing Question by Daniel Boris

 

Joe Sutliff's 260-odd foot caricature of the "Big, Beautiful Bill" favoring Congresspersons

by Joe Sutliff

It seemed like a good idea at the time. After listening to all the commotion over AI and all the work it would take away from cartoonists,I decided upon something that AI could NOT do: create an artistic experience. While I suppose you could get ChatGPT to create a digital  file and do it a lot faster (my version took over two months) I wanted  to do something beyond caricature. An exhibit designer I met once said  "if you can't find any other way to make it interesting, make it big."  So I decided to caricature all the members of congress that voted to pass the "Big Beautiful Bill" on a single roll of paper.

Barbara Dale gets credit for the political cartoon part of the project. I showed her a photo of the first few drawings, and she commented that they needed to be tied together somehow. This lead to the title and caption "Follow My Lead" with the current President holding a long leash to the dog collars I added around each representative.

After that all I had to do is draw the dang thing. The hardest part was not tearing the paper roll after the first 50 or so drawings. Once completed, I wanted to display it before the mid terms elections, and  doing it on Capitol Hill seemed the best location. I called the Capitol Police for the necessary permissions, which included specifying dates, times and lots of other details I had to pick on the spot. This week was supposed to be the last full week before the break, and I chose Thursday with a Friday rain date backup. Mike Johnson must have discovered my plan and, recognizing the power of the political cartoon, called the early recess just to confound me.

On the day of the "great unrolling", after verifying the weather, I headed downtown early enough to find parking and get set up before my appointed start time. This is when Minister Xi  Jinping decided to throw another wrench into my carefully laid plans and visit Washington on the same day. The Secret Service thought it a good precaution to close every street between the Potomac and the Hill (at least that is what it felt like)so I arrived late, only to find the redoubtable duo of the Jenkins brothers and their dogs waiting and ready to assist me. Their aide proved invaluable, as brief wind gusts periodically turned the long sheet of paper into a kite. After much adjusting, the completed piecewas on display: https://youtu.be/LEqIn6tMajU

 

 

Immodestly, it was pretty cool. Staffers going out on their lunch break walked the length until they found their bosses, but declined to be photographed with the drawing. The police ("so you're the cartoon guy they told us about") took pictures, but also did not want to go on record. Tourists seemed delighted, even ones that didn't speak English, and one shopping cart lady asked if she could have it when we were done. Everything was great until a senior officer came up and announced that, after checking with his office, we would have to pack it up and leave. A small amount of pleading and groveling did not work on the Denzel Washington-look alike, so we rolled things up and drank to our brief success at the Tune Inn, where we showed the 3rd generation owner a sample of the work.

 

Caricaturist Mike Jenkins & Tim Jenkins assisted with the rollout

 

"Wow," she said. "Do you do commissions?" So at least I got a gig out of it.

Rare Earth Panda by Daniel Boris

 

Joe Sutliff protesting at Capitol Hill in 15 minutes

UPDATE - here's Joe's post about it https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2026/09/sutliffs-260-odd-foot-cartoon-of.html 

 

From FB:

For those of you near Capitol Hill on Thursday September 24th at 10:30 in the morning, I plan to unroll my 260-odd foot cartoon of all the congresspersons that voted to pass the "Big, Beautiful Bill" in July. First 20 volunteers will get a free caricature (probably) to commemorate the event. You can see a poor video capture of the art here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKdboH4NzBs

Flugennock's Latest and Greatest: "Mr. President, You're No Jack Kennedy"

  "Mr. President, You're No Jack Kennedy"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4321

(sincerest apologies to Bob Dylan)

Democrats and Liberals won't stand up to fascists and ICE thugs, but  they'll raise holy hell over the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial. They'll gladly abandon Palestine to the IDF to avoid appearing
antisemitic and won't lift a finger for transgendered people because that might cost the DNC an election, but they'll man the barricades for the goddamn Kennedy Center. That's right, they'll try to appease fascists by throwing basic human rights and dignity to the wolves while they protest for A GODDAMN BUILDING.

John the Baptist, after torturing a thief,
Looks up at his hero, the Commander-In-Chief,
saying, “Tell me, great hero, but please make it brief –
is there a hole for me to get sick in?”

The Commander-In-Chief answers him while chasing a fly,
saying "Death to all those who would whimper and cry!"
And dropping a barbell, he points to the sky,
saying, "The sun’s not yellow, it’s chicken!"

– Bob Dylan, 1965

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John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts:
https://www.kennedy-center.org/

"The “Pro-Human Assembly” on AI: Sanders and the trade union bureaucracy
join hands with the fascist right" Joseph Kishore at the World Socialist
Web Site 09.16.2026
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/17/wrke-s17.html

"58 Democrats join House vote to grant Trump additional war and tariff
powers" Andre Damon at the World Socialist Web Site 09.17.2026
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/18/pjtu-s18.html

"Joe Biden arrives in Middle East on first trip as US president" Al
Jazeera 06.13.2022
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/13/joe-biden-on-way-to-middle-east-in-first-trip-as-us-president

"Bone Deep" editorial cartoon by Mike Flugennock 07.16.2022
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3484

Algae Bloom at the Lincoln Memorial via Reuters, 06.20.2026
https://www.sinkers.org/posters/poolalgae/lincolnreflectingpoolJun2026-02.jpg

"It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs
saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal
rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems
are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff
like this..." Paul Tompkins on Bluesky 09.19.2026
https://bsky.app/profile/pftompkins.bsky.social/post/3mvtufh6twk2t

Bob Dylan, "Tombstone Blues" 1965
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag-Esuy44ks

 
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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org

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