Category Archives: Politics

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Obama Feeding the Multitude

From the Files is a series presenting choice selections from my extensive and highly disorganized physical archives here at Home Base. Here you’ll find lost cartoons, unfinished art, and forgotten doodles. Enjoy.

This cartoon was set to run last September, but I never finished it for whatever reason. This raw scan gives you a glimpse into the way my process works sometimes — I’ll often draw elements of the image separately and assemble them in Photoshop. This one was meant to recall religious iconography.

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From the Files: State News Tryout Cartoons

From the Files is a series presenting choice selections from my extensive and highly disorganized physical archives here at Home Base. Here you’ll find lost cartoons, unfinished art, and forgotten doodles. Enjoy.

These three cartoons were the ones I drew when I applied for the editorial cartoonist position at The State News in 2005. I’ve lost the original files, but printouts of them have been hanging framed in my parents’ house for some time:

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See the other two after the jump: Continue reading →

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From the Files: Caption Contest!

From the Files is a series presenting choice selections from my extensive and highly disorganized physical archives here at Home Base. Here you’ll find lost cartoons, unfinished art, and forgotten doodles. Enjoy.

Found this unfinished cartoon from 2011 the other day — I think I abandoned it halfway through due to its similarity to this excellent cartoon by Tim Kreider. I don’t have any recollection as to what the cartoon was supposed to be about, other than something related to the United States and the United Kingdom (as personified by Uncle Sam and John Bull).

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Help finish this cartoon by providing a caption/dialogue! Leave your best in the comments, or send them my way at mikeramsey5 at gmail dot com or via Twitter @mikeramsey.

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Ipecac

Click to embiggen. Cross-posted at The Clarion Call.

Rick Santorum says he “almost threw up” when he read the text of John F. Kennedy’s famed speech on the separation of church and state, saying “I don’t believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.”

Coincidentally, I almost threw up when I Google Image Searched for “Santorum.”

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A Terrible Damn Problem

Click to embiggen. Cross-posted at The Clarion Call.

So-called “movement conservatives” have long claimed former Arizona Senator and 1964 GOP presidential nominee Barry Goldwater as the founder of their movement. They’re very fond of trotting out Goldwater’s most famous quip, “extremism in defense of liberty is no vice,” but these days some of his other quotations are curiously ignored. Although we shouldn’t be surprised that religious conservatives would take certain parts of a message as gospel truth while totally ignoring others— they do it with the Bible every day.

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The “Legal” System

Click to embiggen. Cross-posted at The Clarion Call.

As part of the ongoing Predator drone program, President Obama has given himself the authority to order assassinations of suspected terrorists, including American citizens, without charges and without evidence. As it stands, the President his right to declare anyone in the world a “terrorist” and order their murder by remote-controlled killbots without the interference of pesky “judges” and “lawyers.” The administration refuses to even disclose its legal rationale for doing this, citing (what else?) “national security.”

The heinous National Defense Authorization Act extends “the battlefield” in the War on Eurasia Terror to American shores and grants the President the authority to detain any American indefinitely without due process, which is bad enough. This program, combined with the recent FAA bill allowing drones to fly in American airspace should send shivers down anyone’s spine.