Today's Comics Today

And now here's the stuff by yours truly from this week's Scarlet:



Drawing-wise I really like this one. I just wish there was an alternative to making the whip handle so huge so as to fit the word "Guantanamo" in it (note to any postmodern literary theorists reading this: no, it's not a phallic symbol).

As promised, my column (and its comic) deals -- in a rather intemperate tone -- with the question of homosexual Republicans. I wound up using "gay" as a synonym for "homosexual" a lot, even though it's not technically correct, because it's awkward to keep saying "homosexual" and it didn't occur to me to use the "LGBT" acronym.