MALES do that!
Cartoon by Barry
This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins, with an assist from Naomi Rubin, who suggested the kicker panel.
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has four panels (plus a fifth “kicker” panel), all of them showing two women talking on a city street corner. The first woman has reddish-brown hair in a pixie cut, and is wearing a green shirt with blue capris. The second woman has dark hair in a bob cut, and is wearing a blue leather crop jacket over a maroon dress and combat boots.
PANEL 1
Capris points accusingly at Jacket. Jacket, annoyed, gives Capris the finger.
CAPRIS: You’re a male! All you trans women are male!
JACKET: You know what? Screw you.
PANEL 2
JACKET: Let’s be logical. Everyone gets angry sometimes.
CAPRIS: Taking refuge in “logic!” Implying that because i’m a woman I’m being irrational! That’s so male!
PANEL 3
Jacket crosses her arms and looks away, clearly annoyed. Capris is gloating.
CAPRIS: Look, now you’re sulking! Just like males do!
PANEL 4
Jacket has walked away. Capris jumps up and down, yelling at Jacket’s back.
CAPRIS: Walking away! Males do that! Wearing clothes! Breathing! Male male MALE!
KICKER PANEL BELOW BOTTOM OF THE COMIC
Jacket makes finger-quotes while Capris, looking very smug, shrugs.
JACKET: What about you? Isn’t that a “man’s haircut”?
CAPRIS: When I do it, it’s disrupting the patriarchy.
CHICKEN FAT WATCH
In the background is a store with a window display, slowly revealed as the comic progresses. From right to left: Close-ups of enormous fruit (berries, a banana, a kiwi) sitting or floating over a bed of ice, with water and juice splashing dynamically upwards.
A closely-cropped image of a woman’s face, so we just see one eye and the corner of her mouth. One hand is on her cheek. Her lips and nails are icy pink. The transom above the door has an exotic flower decal.
On the front door, in an artsy font treatment, it says: “Are we a smoothie shoppe? A NAIL salon? A DISPENSARY? YOU DON’T KNOW!”
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