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I draw political cartoons to highlight the absurd and the obscene along with text to explain their context.

Newsletter · By Robert De Graaf · Official site

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Sep 21, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    DISPLACING ISRAEL (opens the original)

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    The Latin American Campaign of the USraeli Empire was going very well, perhaps too well. The easy conquest of Venezuela led to overconfidence in the White House, contributing to the President taking Bibi Netanyahu’s advice rather than that of any of his foreign policy advisers who still consider US interests as much as Israeli interests.Thus, the president, who had campaigned on the idea of no more forever wars, launched a massive assault on Iran, a country which had been under illegal US sancti

  2. Issue · Aug 22, 2026

    Birth of a Nation (opens the original)

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    This will be the fourth and last cartoon in a series depicting the roles that Donald Trump has chosen to play. He fits them all rather well. Our only hope is that, facing insurmountable obstacles, he won’t decide to assume the role of God, or the devil, and end the human era. He could do that that. I don’t think he will because there would be nobody left to sing his praises, but he has done highly irrational things before and there is no one in the band of flunkies that surround him with enough

  3. Issue · Aug 12, 2026

    Outdoing Tony Soprano (opens the original)

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    This series of cartoons has tried to highlight some of the roles that Donald Trump has assumed during his presidency. His greatest success has come in show business, where his TV show ran for many years and made him a celebrity, which led to his elevation to the presidency, where he has played more or less the same role, a judgmental boss, dismissive and humiliating toward his underlings. Why he bothered to take on the role of pirate is something best asked of his shrink. His affinity for empire

  4. Issue · Aug 4, 2026

    The Greatest Emperor (opens the original)

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    Last month we just celebrated the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America, not being exactly clear on whether it was a regular 4th of July celebration or a wake. There was a sense of it being a transitional moment but nobody is very secure about what the country is changing into. Is it replacing the Republic, created by the Constitution, with an Empire, as dreamed of by the Neocons for the past thirty-five years? Could it end up as just another large fascist dictatorshi

  5. Issue · Jul 24, 2026

    Lindsey Graham American Icon (opens the original)

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    I’d been doing a series of cartoons dealing with the various roles that Donald Trump has assumed during his presidency. Given unusual conditions such as various family reunions, social events, oppressive heat, and countless medical appointments, my writing and drawing activities have been slowed down more than I had ever foreseen. Now, with the sudden death of Senator Lindsey Graham, I have been distracted for the moment a week or two by the vast amount of commentary generated by this mysterious

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