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Cartoon: The Cities Are Full Of, uh, "Crime" [1]
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Date: 2025-09-08
A cartoon by me and Becky Hawkins.
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
PANEL 1
A white man wearing a baseball cap looks around nervously as he walks on a city sidewalk. Behind him, we can see storefronts and pedestrians. All the people are brown-skinned, enjoying their day, including an adorable family with a toddler riding on her mom's shoulders.
PANEL 2
A residential city neighborhood. The same white man presses against a wall, trying not to be seen, as he watches a little girl playing hopscotch, while another girl sits on a stoop reading a book. Nearby, a middle-aged woman waters some potted plants on a low wall. Again, the white guy is the only white person in the panel.
PANEL 3
The white guy peers out from behind a tree at a piragua cart, where the piragua vender is smiling as he talks to a customer. In the background, we see a man walking a three-legged pitbull, and a couple of people playing basketball. Again, everyone but the white guy is a person of color.
PANEL 4
We see the white guy in a professional-looking podcast studio, clenching a fist and talking intently into the microphone.
WHITE GUY: I've been to the city, and it was full of, uh, crime.
CHICKEN FAT WATCH
"Chicken fat" is bygone cartoonists' lingo for unimportant details snuck into the art.
PANEL 2 - The woman's bathrobe and turban in p2 are modeled after one of Barbara Howard's outfits in the season two finale of the TV show Abbott Elementary.
PANEL 3 -A tree by the piragua cart has #avanine carved into the trunk. Avanine is a portmanteau of Ava and Janine, used by the small but enthusiastic number of Abbott Elementary fans who think that the plucky teacher and chaotic principal should date. The piragua guy looks like Lin Manuel Miranda as "Piragua Guy" in the movie version of In The Heights.
PANEL 4 - A poster on the wall shows an extremely muscular shirtless Donald Trump in a royal crown and wrestling belt, carrying a scepter with a carved American eagle head on top. Another poster shows a cartoon narwhal saying "If EDUCATION Makes People SMART, Why Are Most Educated People LIBERAL?" And a paper taped to the wall says "SCHEDULE. 10am: Anger. 11am: Pissed. Noon: Fury. 1pm: Lunch. 2pm: Wrath."
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