Politics. Ugh! (Patreon)

This was a hard comic to do. 

It’s a partner piece to my other Last President comic, which caused a storm of vitriol online. As someone unused to having an audience, that was a nasty shock!

I don’t mind if people disagree with me, but abuse can be hard to deal with. So, even though I wrote this story at the same time as that first comic, I’ve avoided finishing it. 

The recent Supreme Court attack on women’s rights however put a fire under me. It turns out there’s nothing like impotent rage to get my artistic juices flowing.

The other thing that made this comic hard, was that I find it difficult to imagine a way out of the current nightmare we’re all living through. A dystopia is relatively easy to write, in comparison. But at heart I do believe a better future is possible and I wanted to remind myself of that. 

The inspiration for this story is Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry of the Future - and also Give me Liberty (by Frank Miller, before he became awful). 

By the way, I had to do a lot of simplifications to fit this into 10 panels, which I am painfully aware of! But hopefully people don’t get too hung up on the details, and instead focus on the message: There is still hope. 

Thank you for your support, team. - when I do tough comics like this, it means more than you can know.