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Editorial cartoonist for Q Syndicate on LGBTQ+ issues; blogger on cartooning history and editorial cartoons in general; non-attorney spokesman; just a guy, you know?
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2025 in headlines
Out with the News...
I started taking photographs of each year's newspaper headlines way back at the end of 1973 as a way of making bookmarks in my photo albums....
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January 1, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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The DJTJFK Center offers another Silent Night:

#editorialcartoon #lgbtq #KennedyCenter #cancelculture #trumpism
Q Toon: Culture Cancels Back
Who says there's never any news between the holidays? Chuck Redd is a jazz vibraphonist and drummer who has presented the Christmas Eve "Ja...
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December 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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The final Graphical #History Tour of 2025 pulls together the episodes of Leo’s abduction by #ICE.

#editorialcartoons #Lgbtq #trump #Canada #HomelandSecurity
The Year I Almost Broke Up Max and Leo
This week's Graphical History Tour looks back on the year 2025. You may have heard of it. I was going to post enough of my cartoons to give...
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December 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby? Can you tell me where he’s gone?

#editorialcartoon #transgender #healthcare #lgbtq #hhs #rfkjr
Q Toon: Kennedy-nial of Care
During Donald Joffrey Trump's first term, I drew a cartoon about his transphobic policies that suggested that he was only pursuing them ...
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December 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Bygone #editorialcartoons from #UnitedStates, #Germany, and #Canada to wish you a merry #Christmas— with surprise guest Chester Gould:
Christmas 1925
Welcome to our Graphical History Tour Christmas Special! We're just about through with the year 1925, when peace, goodwill, and sobriety rei...
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December 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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I’ll take this other #presidential address, thank you.

#lgbtq #editorialcartoon #biden #newyear #victory #youth #missmeyet
Q Toon: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Few of us editorial cartoonists are known for drawing cartoons that second what a politician has said, but given the distressing events...
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December 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Half a century of December #editorialcartoons in today’s Graphical #History Tour:

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I Guano Wish You a Merry Christmas
Hi there! You're just in time to join another Graphical History Tour through the archives of your humble scribbler's December cartoons, care...
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December 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Prepare the coastal highway…
#editorialcartoon #florida #lgbtq
Q Toon: Driven to Distraction
I was halfway through inking last week's cartoon when I came up with this idea, which is not how things generally work inside this old nogg...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Join Smith, Fitzpatrick, Low, Wright, Conrad, Sanders, and others on a Graphical #History Tour of depravity:

#editorialcartoons #Nuremberg #Vietnam #Iraq #Afghanistan
War Crimes Edition
With self-styled Secretary of War Pete HIC!seth's Leave No Survivors rules of engagement in the present regime's gratuitous War in the Carib...
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December 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Movin’ to Montana soon?

#editorialcartoon #lgbtq #bessent #inflation
Q Toon: Moving Right Along
With our self-styled Secretary of War ordering war crimes in the Caribbean, and the President of the United States falling asleep at a meeti...
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December 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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In memory of Tom Stoppard, here I am in -- what may or may not be -- the title role of St. Olaf's 1978 production of "The Real Inspector Hound." With Kit Carson, Tom Angland, Dona Werner, Carl DeSanti, Julia Reinertsen, Karen Gudknecht, Matt Haas, and Stephen Bergen
November 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Were in the giblets! Plenty of leftover turkey toons from 1925:
Got the Kit As Well As the Kaboodle
Today's Graphical History Tour serves up some leftover turkey from Thanksgiving Day, 1925. "Your Uncle Sam Is Good at This" by Dorman H. Smi...
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November 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Leo and Max are back in this week's #editorialcartoon and I guess they have a dog now.
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#CDC #WorldAIDSday #HIV/AIDS #RFKJr #lgbtq #HHS #Trump #vaccines #antivaxxers
Q Toon: Scoff Drops
Leo and Max, my heteropolitical homosexual couple, are back. And they have a dog! Earlier this month, the CDC website under Health and Huma...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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“The thing we have to be careful of — and I always caution myself on this, and I ran into this trouble with Trump — is we cannot mistake absurdity for lack of danger. Because it takes people with no shame to do shameful things.” —Jon Stewart
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Peace in their time— with #editorialcartoons by Raemaekers, Jordaan, Johnson, Kirby, Rogers, and more. bergetoons.blogspot.com/2025/11/awak...
Awakening the Spirit of Locarno
Our Graphical History Tour, as is so often its wont (where there’s a will, there’s a wont), journeys back a century ago to check up on inter...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Cheer up, Kim. You don’t have to sign marriage licenses for anybody any more.

#marriageequality #editorialcartoon #supremecourt #scotus #kentucky #lgbtq
Q Toon: Just Deserted
The Supreme Court declined to hear Kim Davis's appeal of a $100,000 judgment against her in suit brought against her by David Moore and Da...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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And to think I was considering giving up the pig snout caricature.
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#editorialcartoon #Trump #DonaldTrump #piggy #AnimalFarm #CharlottesWeb #LordOfTheFlies #Columbia
Toon: Quite Piggy
A short while ago, I suggested the possibility that perhaps it was time for me to retire drawing Donald Old Major Trump with a pig snout. An...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Join the Graphical #History Tour as a young man’s fancy turns lightly to thoughts of the federal deficit # deficit…
The Toons of November Remembered
Rummaging through the archives in Bergetoons' state-of-the-art plastic bins, our Graphical History Tour guides have run across my cartoon ab...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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It seems the elevator has been stuck for a while…

#editorialcartoon #dickcheney #eulogy #iraq #jan6 #lgbtq #cheney
Q Toon: Will He Be Greeted with Flowers?
Looking over my shoulder as I was sending this cartoon to my syndicate editors over the weekend, my husband asked the immortal question: "T...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Omigod, I’ve tooned #Cheney!
#editorialcartoons #Bush #Edwards Graphical #History Tour
The Good, The Bad, and The Cheney
A special Graphical History Tour bulletin: former Vice President Dick Cheney passed away this week. Since the man was often the subject of e...
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November 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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It’s about space…

#mikejohnson #republicans #governmentwaste #editorialcartoon #lgbtq #eastwing #internet
Q Toon: It's About Time
Say what you will about Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA). Republicans came to Congress with a majority pledging openness and transp...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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100 years later and we’re still dealing with U.S.-Canadian #tariffs. Plus a new mayor for #NewYork, the new senator from #Wisconsin, and general #insubordination:
Clean-up in Aisle Beback
Today's Graphical History Tour catches up on a few news items from a century ago that we left unresolved last Saturday, and had overlooked i...
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November 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Year after year on October 31 in the 1950's, Walt Kelly would mourn the death of his infant daughter, Kathryn Barbara, by having a bug paddle through his #cartoon strip with a birthday cake and its lone candle, searching in vain for her.
#Pogo, October 31, 1955
"I'se lookin' for somebody what tryin' hard to be a year old... not everybody makes it. I got a cake here for he who do."
October 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Then what’s a meta for?

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#editorialcartoon #lgbtq #WhiteHouse #EastWing
Q Toon: Wrecking Crew
Okay, since he was in the news, I wanted to draw a cartoon featuring gay Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent this week. A parody of Evita for ...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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To celebrate last night’s #Toronto Blue Jays win, our Graphical #History Tour steps over the line to #Canada…

#editorialcartoons #Montreal #Vancouver
No Kings, Canadian Style
Last month, we took our Graphical History Tour to the special election in Wisconsin that sent Robert La Follette Jr. to the U.S. Senate. Tha...
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October 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM