Political Cartoons
Dangerous Doodles.
"Hate Floats," June 7, 2016. Drawn in the summer of 2016 and posted the same day Hillary Clinton secured the Democratic Party nomination for president.
"Boehner's Batch," May 2011. The 2010 midterm elections saw Republicans ride the Tea Party wave to re-capture the House of Representatives. But establishment Republicans soon found it difficult to control the monster they made. Winner of a 2011 Associated Collegiate Press award and a 2012 Hawaiʻi Publisher's Association award.
"Get Railed," July 12, 2020. There were a lot of candidates for mayor of Honolulu in 2020, but only one realistic outcome.
"Next Terror," July 31, 2018. Employees of NextEra Energy, Inc., a company hoping to take over the energy industry in Hawaiʻi, lined up donations behind gubernatorial candidate Colleen Hanabusa. Environmental groups, opposed to NextEra's fossil fuel-inclusive energy proposal, lined up behind David Ige.
"Judge Not," January 12, 2015. A gut reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre five days prior.
"Mo' Condos, Mo' Problems," August 25, 2015. In 2013, the Hawaiʻi Community Development Authority kicked off a condo-building boom in low-lying, makai district Kakaʻako. But without adequate infrastructure in place to support even the prior population, things quickly began to smell a little off.
"The Monolith," September 20, 2013. Land is power in Hawaiʻi and local politicians know the right alter at which to worship.
"Splintered Paddle," November 20, 2013. Then-Honolulu City Councilmember Stanley Chang introduced one of the first sit-lie bills, which criminalize homelessness and directly violate Kānāwai Māmalahoe (the Law of the Splintered Paddle).
"The General," May 18, 2014. Retired Army General Francis Wiercinski just didn't seem to fit in with the University of Hawaiʻi community he was hoping to lead.
"The $200 Million Man," February 24, 2012. GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney looked like he was going to try and buy his way into the White House. Surely that wouldn't become a trend going forward.
"Puppet Master," November 5, 2010. Dan Inouye, who passed away in 2012, was the most powerful Hawaiʻi politician in recent history; a master string-puller of willing puppets like his protege, Colleen Hanabusa, who had just run for Congress in a special election and lost to Republican Charles Djou prior to this cartoon.
"Free Speech," January 25, 2010. A gut reaction to the Citizens United v. FEC court ruling four days prior that has allowed corporations to pump unlimited amount of money into political campaigns and fundamentally corrupted our democracy.