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May 21st, 2026 Barry Posted in Right-wingers, Social Justice | No Comments »
This strip is drawn by the awesome Mike Lawrence, who really went wild with the chicken fat!
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has four panels. Each panel shows two women hanging out in a living room, on a sofa. The first wears a bright yellow t-shirt, so I’ll call her YELLOW; the second is in white t-shirt with blue jeans, so I’ll call her JEANS.
PANEL 1
Yellow is reading something on her phone, while Jeans turns and begins rooting through her backpack.
YELLOW: This article says that ICE agents are really unhappy… The job is stressful and they’re not getting the bonuses and bennies they were promised.
JEANS: Hold on.
PANEL 2
Jeans has pulled a huge electric microscope out of her backpack.
YELLOW: Er… What’s that?
JEANS: It’s my portable microscope. It has 300 times magnification but with digital zoom it’s more like 1000 times.
PANEL 3
Jeans enthusiastically describes her microscope.
JEANS: It has a built in stabilizer and eight levels of LCD lighting! With this, I can see even the smallest objects.
PANEL 4
Yellow is puzzled. A snarl on her face, Jeans turns to the microscope’s screen.
YELLOW: Okay, but why?
JEANS: I’m looking for a violin tiny enough.
CHICKEN FAT
“Chicken fat” is long-dead terminology for odd little details cartoonists slip in art.
PANEL 1: The lamp is a “leg lamp,” like in A Christmas Story, except that it’s a hairy leg in a sneaker and gym sock.
There’s a cat napping on the sofa. There’s a framed picture of Dr. Teeth (from The Muppets) on the wall. There’s a little doll with a green face hanging by the neck from the lamp pull. Jeans has a tattoo that says “tattoo.” The magazines on the coffee table are “US” and “THEM”; the person on the cover of “THEM” is pointing a finger at “US.” The side table drawer is open, and in the drawer a couple of mice are sitting on a tiny sofa and watching a TV with mice news hosts on it.
PANEL 2: The cat is reading a book entitled 43 Places To Hide a Hairball. The backpack’s brand name is “Manspürt.” Jeans has a tattoo that says “Advertise Here.”
PANEL 3: There’s a framed picture of “Bleeding Gums” Murphy (from The Simpsons) on the wall. The cat is playing with a paddle ball, but instead of a ball there’s a panicked mouse. A magazine on the coffee table is “THINGS,” with a coffee mug and a rubik’s cube on the cover. Jeans’ tattoo now says “Eat At Joe’s!” Jeans is wearing one of those t-shirts with a list of people in Helvetica font, which says “Hel & Vet & Ica.”
PANEL 4: The cat is looking over their shoulders at the screen. The apple logo on the back of the microscope has now turned into an apple core logo.
TATTOO PROGRESSIONS: The leg lamp has a tattoo that says “Debbie.” In panel two, “Debbie” is crossed out, with “Donna” written beneath it. In panel three, “Donna” has also been crossed out, replaced with “Donny.”
Jeans has a tattoo of a baseball bat in panel one, which is a bat (the mammal) in panel two, and Batman in panel three.
