Big Boy Desk
One way to illustrate a dysfunctional White House is to have the president order the vice-president to assemble a toy for his doll.
One way to illustrate the unfortunate American (and human) love affair with authority is to have a top-ranking government official dutifully do what he’s told, regardless of how irrelevant the task is to citizens and how self-serving it is to the president.
My aspiration for this comic strip as a whole is for it to address problems with human nature, morality and government. Artists, however, can hardly evaluate how successful their art is; we need public feedback for that. And public feedback is hard to come by when your publishing outlet is the internet, where billions of pieces of content are competing for people’s attention each day, much of that content much more targeted to appeal to people than a comic strip like Trump After Trump.
These are my reflections this morning as I publish my 38th comic strip and wonder what it is doing in the world beyond me.
