HeyJaredDraughon & Quartered
A short trip through the mind of editorial cartoonist Dennis Draughon
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Rough sketches for a rough world... (opens the original)
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I had two ideas that I hadn’t had the time to finish, and they weren’t about North Carolina issues, which is my main professional bailiwick, so here they are so the rest of the world can see them living outside my head.The first was about the possible Kennedy Center demolition and the Trump Arch, etc., etc.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I4R1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpu
Cackalacky Cartoons for the Old North State (opens the original)
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Trump’s low approval ratings in the polls continues to drag down his preferred candidate for the US Senate race in NC, where former Gov. Roy Cooper is running against Trump’s former chairman of the RNC.Trump disses NC while stumping for Whatley<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!elP4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F495c7aac-552c-41
Laying odds on the various forms of digital gambling... a cartoon twofer. (opens the original)
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Laurie Buckshot, a Republican candidate for North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District was kicked off of Kalshi, an online prediction market, for three years as a consequence for betting on her own campaign. Did she take the pot? She did not. Despite desperate attempts to redistrict North Carolina in favor of Republican candidates, Rep. Don Davis should prevail in this contest. Wanna bet?<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EQkt!,f_auto,q_au
Happy Labor Day! (opens the original)
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One of the maxims I’m always spouting to today’s callow youth is “If you let a machine do your thinking for you, you’ll be replaced by one soon enough”. For the sake of their generation’s future prosperity, I hope I’m wrong, but it seems likely that, like Cassandra, they will never take heed of my prophecy. To wit, my latest offering…<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-uJ4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post
More bodies of water to rename... (opens the original)
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As I was drawing this on Tuesday night, September 1st, 2026, I was thinking to myself, “You know, he’s crazy enough to want to rename this, too”. Sure enough…Trump renames Strait of HormuzTrump Muses about Hormuz name change<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wDZZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpu
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