Fox Goggles
June 17th, 2026 Barry Posted in Conservatives, Media criticism, Right-wingers | No Comments »
Everyone’s looking for a cartoon about information bubbles, right?
I don’t have a cartoon syndicate and I’m not in newspapers. But I get to do this for a living because lots of readers support my Patreon with mostly small pledges! I also have prints and books for sale.
PANEL 1
Two people are walking along a cliff’s edge and chatting. The first is wearing jeans and an orange t-shirt; the second is wearing black pants, a white polo shirt, and a VR headset that completely covers his eyes.
Tshirt looks irritated, Polo is cheery.
TSHIRT: How can you say the economy’s good? Everything’s awful! Oil prices, drug prices, yo-yo tariffs, the rampant corruption…!
POLO: I don’t see any of that!
PANEL 2
A closer shot of Polo shows that his VR goggles are covered with stickers for right-wing news outlets – NewsMax, Fox News, Truth Social, X, and others.
TSHIRT: Of course you don’t see it — you’ve got your Fox goggles on.
POLO: Hey, my goggles are the only thing that shows me the truth! Which is that—
PANEL 3
Polo trips over a stone, falling directly into Tshirt.
POLO: Whoops!
PANEL 4
Tshirt and Polo fall off the cliff and are falling an enormous distance.
POLO: We’re in a golden age!
CHICKEN FAT WATCH
“Chicken fat” is ancient cartooning slang for unimportant details in the art.
PANEL 1: A notice posted on a tree says “WANTED: Actualization, Self-Esteem, Belonging, Safety, Psychological.” Groucho Marx is lying on the grass in the background. A tiny bike-rider is riding down the other tree.
PANEL 3: There’s a cloud person fishing sitting on the upper-left cloud. There’s a cool snake (cool because it’s wearing sunglasses) wrapped around the tree trunk, and an evil bunny (evil because smoking a cig) at the base of the tree.
PANEL 4: The middle cloud on the left side of the panel has a big face in it. (Rotate 90 degrees clockwise if you have trouble seeing it).
THE T-SHIRT: Every instance of the T-Shirt shows a different character or thing shaped like a tube with a puff on top: Burt from Sesame Street, Beaker from The Muppet Show, Road Runner from Looney Tunes, and a carrot.
