Lo, the giant came forth clad in $12 million of polished steel, a beast of artifice piloted by the Prince of PACs. But Della reached for her slingshot. Thus saith the cartoonist: Let the rock fly; let the giant fall.

Grab your red twine and head to the cork board. Hawaiʻi’s ongoing bribery scandal has devolved into a Scooby-Doo nightmare worthy of the Overlook Hotel.

Pay no attention to the mayor behind the curtain! Honolulu wants a better police chief. The mayor wants to be the Wizard. And the only one pulling back the curtain is a tiny dog with a Civil Beat pin.

Pacific Resource Partnership’s former PAC board member Vlad Devens is up for Chief Justice. That’s a conflict of interest too big to gavel over.

NASA just found a black hole beyond the moon. Turns out the Hawaiʻi House of Representatives got there first.

Welcome to the 2026 lieutenant governor race—where one candidate is riding high; the other is treading water; and somewhere beneath the surface, a very well-funded shark is waiting.

Democracy should flow through a public hearing, not a private audience. Yet, in the people’s house, the most important conversations happen in the hallways—and they’re all off the record.

In 2024, the AG told lawmakers she already had the power to appoint a special counsel. In 2026, she claims she has no such power. My new cartoon exposes a contradiction at the heart of the $35k bribery investigation.

In threatening the press for reporting the truth about an impaired lawmaker, a gang of Hawaiʻi senators traded their public obligation to transparency for tribal loyalty—and showed just how comfortable they've become with authoritarian tactics at home.

New legislative session, same giant obstacles. Hawaiʻi Judiciary chairs, Rep. David Tarnas and Sen. Karl Rhoads—the Sunshine Boys—stare down the 2026 gauntlet. Someone get these guys some brighter flashlights!

The U.S. isn’t liberating Venezuela’s oil—it’s poisoning the nation’s future with debt to create a permanent financial slave.

CONFIRMED: Big Tech’s AI is a brain-farming operation. My new cartoon exposes the mainframe to a horrified lawmaker. The blue pill is lobbyist lies. The red pill is the trampled regulation bill. The truth is on the screen.

I’m the Conversation Starter, twisted Conversation Starter /
I’m the one who texts the threats to get the vote locked in /
I’m the one who holds the funds, the trouble I've begun.

I want to believe... in a corruption-free legislature! Calls are growing to reveal the identify of the lawmaker who took $35k in cash, but senate and house leadership could do a lot more to get to the truth. 🛸📁

Honolulu Prosecutor Steve Alm's office can't investigate an employee for witness tampering because he never signed the pinky-swear form promising not to commit crimes.

A surrealist take on the vivid hallucinations of Large Language Model A.I., which are known to imagine entirely made-up historical events, data points and now even case law.

The State is funding a shady PR campaign using cultural gatekeepers to convince the public that geothermal energy ventures are supported by Native Hawaiians, and even the goddess Pele herself.

What was meant to be a $51 million rescue mission for service providers under threat from federal cuts could instead become another ethics debacle. But try asking the governor and he’ll just call you a hater and escort you from the beach.

The absurdity of Honolulu’s police commission fiasco deepens. Like a naked stadium streaker, ousted chief Logan’s salary demand makes everyone uncomfortable, and Mayor Rick’s favored, rejected replacement drops the ball in his own endzone.

Spilling the tea on the inappropriate relationship between a powerful State Senator and his māmaki tea business, and the conflict of interest inherent within.