Changing things up
🪤A Republican trap for woke academics, a Dictator for Prez & more!
Two cartoons, a behind-the-scenes video . . . & AI madness on the way.
I decided to change things up this week and start out with a couple of single-panel cartoons . . .
. . . which I will then animate using AI.
Wait, what?!
See, I promised you mad satire experiments!
No matter what technology I use, everything starts with ideas and scribbles in my sketchbook.
Don’t worry, I’m not going to turn over the keys to the robots just yet.
Before AI takes over the world, I’m just trying to use all these new gizmos and tools on steroids to help me make cartoons.
It really is an amazing time to be cartooning, making videos and satire from the technical/tools standpoint.
From the business standpoint, it’s a verrrry tough road.
First up, I’ve been fascinated by the congressional hearing that focused on antisemitism at Ivy League campuses . . . which led the University of Pennsylvania’s president to resign.
Three university presidents — from Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania — completely flubbed their answers to Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik’s question about genocide. (How hard is it to say that espousing genocide is bad?)
Unfortunately, none of the presidents undergoing congressional grilling pointed out that Stefanik was playing fast and loose with terms like “genocide” and “intifada.”
Even though antisemitism is horrible and the witnesses’ answers were lame, this really was just a Republican trap set for those darn woke Ivy League elitists.
We need look no farther than MAGA-Rep. Stefanik’s gloating, “One down. Two to go” comment.
Sure, they were mealy-mouthed answers about genocide, but this sure reeks of a McCarthy-style hearing to get those woke elites off ‘Merica’s college campuses.
I’ve also got my eye on all the talk of a Donald Trump dictatorship.
We should realize this is not just another “joke” the much-indicted former president tosses off at fundraisers.
Trump can (and hopefully will) be convicted and/or lose the election — but the MAGAsphere plans for retribution are pretty darn chilling.
To me the worst part isn’t the usual leaders in right-wing circles talking about filling the government with people willing to do the undemocratic bidding of Trump, it’s that even amid talk of dictatorship and retribution, he rises in the polls.
It’s the fact that there are so many real Trump supporters that I find particularly worrisome.
Before I try to convince the AI robots to animate these cartoons, here is a behind-the-
