LOS ANGELES TIMES CARTOON: Poison Pill Politics

Poison Pill Politics

I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles).

This week: Governor Jerry Brown of California has submitted a plan to ease prison overcrowding – but says he doesn’t support it. Could this mark the start of Poison Pill Politics?

3 Comments.

  • A good example of Brown’s brilliance. (Like him or detest him, you cannot deny he knows how to manipulate the levers of government.) Why? Because the novelty of disowning your own plan focuses public attention on the fact that the reason the state of California had to act on this issue was a ruling from Federal court. If a criminal is released from prison and becomes infamous for a heinous act, Willie Horton style, Brown has deniability. He will only have this deniability if he disowns his own plan. Hence this move. It’s logical, if perverse.

  • Not sure what you changed about your art, its subtle to the point where I can’t pinpoint it at all, but there is something cleaner and more refined looking about this and the other new comic currently up on the site relative to older comics. Whatever you have changed, it comes out in the base line art which looks a lot more confident and cleaner then ever before. Whatever you have changed the net effect is strongly suggestive of you having moved another notch up on the learning curve.

    I still am more of a fan of your old highly stylized form from the 90s – it had a more deliciously counter cultural feel to it, but it was admittedly far more limited in its ability to convey specific people relative to your newer style. Whatever you have done is a subtle but very effective step in the right direction with your newer style.

    • Thanks! Might be practice. Also using different paper…ironically it’s cheaper, though harder to use, toothier, so it’s a win-win!

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