Auchtoon!

Originally published in the Grand Rapids Press, January 28, 2012

This is my last cartoon for Saturday editions of the Grand Rapids Press. Starting this week — and as a small part of a major reorganization — my cartoon will be in the Sunday edition of the Press as well as several other Michigan newspapers. More on all of this soon!

Opening night was awesome! Grandville does an excellent job with this quirky, funny play.

Shows tonight and Saturday at 7:00PM. Click here for details: http://gpsblogs.org/ghstheater/

Originally published in the Grand Rapids Press, January 21, 2012

Unlike, say, the UK’s parliamentary system where the executive leader (the prime minister) is also the leader of his/her political party, our system is set up so the executive leader (the president, or in the case of a state, the governor) is merely a member of the party. So our executive doesn’t necessarily have obligations to narrowly follow the party line. This is a good thing. Unless you’re a Republican legislator in Michigan and you want your damn Republican governor to narrowly follow your damn party line….

Originally published in the Grand Rapids Press, January 14, 2012

Justin Amash is our US congressman from Grand Rapids. He’s a Republican and a freshman and can generally be lumped together with the other tea party influence newbies from the class of 2010. I say generally because he tends to vote like them, but Amash definitely thinks for himself and is nothing if not his own person. He has very high standards, he takes his job seriously, and seems to be quite keen on representing his constituents well. I think he’s a good guy. But then, it’s also the sacred duty of an editorial cartoonist to poke fun at the deeply ideological….

Originally published in the Grand Rapids Press, January 7, 2012

I was hoping to be less right about the third panel than I actually was — for Jane’s sake….