MAGA Surplus

It's a surplus of MAGAts

Did you miss me?

I was in Canada and got ahead of schedule with my cartoons which meant I wasn’t drawing during my convention…except for this local cartoon drawn for the Fredericksburg Advance.

It’s been kinda slow for news locally over the past month or so. I didn’t draw a cartoon for the Advance last week and this issue was pitched by my editor last Tuesday. Even though I was going out of town, I wanted to draw a cartoon for the Advance. All I had from the assignment was that the state has a surplus. I’m supposed to take that and run with it. I’m not complaining because that’s how I like it.

I wanted to have my idea approved before I left town and planned to draw it during the convention. I wrote the idea on Wednesday and it was approved that night. I started working on it during panels in Montreal. The cartoon contained other references that weren’t as local to the Fredericksburg area, but while rewriting a few of those captions in an alley in Montreal, it got hyperlocal. I finished the cartoon on Saturday at the McCord Stewart Museum and a lot of other cartoonists got to look over my shoulder during the creation. Obviously, nobody understood it. I had to explain Sorry Mom Tattoo to several of them.

I’m in Washington right now. I didn’t go to sleep Saturday night. I stayed out late with cartoonists, shut down a bar with Lalo, went back to my room around 3 a.m., met some nice American ladies in the lobby who offered to share an Uber to the airport, and then flew out of Montreal at 8:30 a.m. I knew I’d be super tired so I booked a room in Washington before I left for the airport (using some points). I took a nap as soon as I got to my hotel. I’ll be home tomorrow.

Drawn in 30 seconds:

Timelapse with a voiceover:

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