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ICE OUT Comics
Minnesota native Jim Keefe maintains an understandable interest in ICE activities. Especially as the I.C.E. drawdown there seems to be fake and more of a rotation.
Yesterday he devoted his Patreon entry to the subject.
ICE Out Comics were initiated by Minnesota cartoonists K. Woodman-Maynard (Tuck Everlasting GN), Trung Le Nguyen (Angelica and the Bear Prince), and Jason Walz (The Flip Side).
If interested in more ICE out comics by other cartoonists, check out the hashtags #iceoutcomics and #iceoutmpls on Instagram, Bluesky and other social media platforms.
Government A.I.
So the GOP tried to shame Gov. Pritzker because he was too on target in shaming them.
But this isn’t about that other than they couldn’t the bucks in their coffers to hire a real artist?
Now me I’m computer illiterate and technologically challenged, I wouldn’t know how to go about creating A.I images, but it must be really easy for those in the know. National, state, and regional government social media is filled with the crap. Even the Facebook pages for my smallish town’s city government and the activists pro and con post a.i. as much as real art or photos. It’s snowballing.
There are plenty of artists available to to caricature Prizker or anyone to the clients satisfaction.
More Shame
A reader took The La Grande Observer and its owner was taken to task for running Mallard Fillmore:
Why the East Oregonian continues to run Bruce Tinsley’s “Mallard Fillmore” on the comics page is beyond me. I take no issue with the man’s right to express his views through a comic format, but his MAGA misogynism leaks out in the cartoon published in the Feb. 18, 2026 edition.
For shame, EO, for continuing to run this singularly partisan strip solely written to offend. How does this reflect on your female readership?
The More Things Change…
Kevin Kallaugher (KAL) received a package of his editorial cartoons he had drawn 30 years ago.
Kal noticed something that has struck me as I go through old editoons working up a retrospective:
It was a revelation for me to see my cartoons from the early 1990’s. What immediately impressed me was how many of the cartoons remained relevant today.
Amazing the number of editorial cartoons made for one incident that are actually evergreens.
Social Media Restricts Indian Cartoonists
Prateek Goyal for NewsLaundry reports social media restrictions:
Political cartoonists across India are increasingly finding their work restricted on social media following legal requests from law enforcement — often without any clarity on the law invoked.
In recent months, at least three sets of cartoonists and one publication have faced restrictions citing requests from Haryana law enforcement or central authorities. In each instance, platforms said they were complying with local law. Though in none of the cases was the specific legal provision disclosed.
For cartoonist Gaurav Sarjerao, who has assignments in Mumbai and Pune, the restriction escalated from a single post to his entire Instagram account being made inaccessible in India. He is now exploring legal options.
Here in the United States no political cartoonists are ever banned from Facebook and the like. Right?
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