The Amazing Non-binary Brain
Hi Everyone,

Here's another strangely-optimistic cartoon on a really awful/depressing subject.  Somehow I ended up in a land of unexpected silver lining when I was researching this cartoon and brainstorming.  The news the past week (okay, more than a week) has been awfully grim-- but stay tuned for wall-to-wall presidential campaign silliness between now and August.  (Silly but grim as well.)


Even before the recent racially-charged violence in LouisianaMinnesota and Dallas

,there was an undercurrent of “either-or” thinking in the United States.  Whether we’re talking about partisanship, foreign policy or race, the George W. Bush-style thinking of “you’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists” seems to be on the rise.  Binary brains are all the rage.


Support for Black Lives Matter does not equal support for killing police officers, obviously.  Maybe the terrible events in Dallas (and Louisiana and Minnesota), will allow people to see that they don’t have to stay on one side of an imaginary divide.  Yes, you can support police and despise police brutality, just like you can support racial justice and encourage community policing.  (I’m told there are even— gasp— police officers of color!)


It’s not all about easily-defined boxes as some people and the media tend to depict— it’s not just black and white and people of color versus cops.  There is plenty of awfulness to go around but (I’m hoping) even more good.  Let’s chalk up this cartoon as a little hopefulness amidst the tragedies.     


More posts and updates are on the way-- I've been super-busy over the past week so have a little Patreon backlog to catch up on!  Some video, some special project work.  (Even a big comics journalism/graphic-whatever piece is coming out tomorrow, stay tuned!)


Thanks SO much for being a Patron or visiting my cartoons here and considering becoming a Patron!


-Mark

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