RFK Jr. Antivax Views Fuel Disease Outbreaks and Hospital Profits
Peter Kuper, PoliticalCartoons.com
The cartoon depicts a virus-like figure seated at an office desk surrounded by pathogens, reacting positively to RFK Jr.'s influence on health policy. The caption highlights booming business from disease spread. Published March 6, 2025, it responds to RFK Jr.'s nomination for a top health role and recent measles cases in Texas. The visual ties antivaccine rhetoric to increased illness during flu season.

About Peter Kuper
Peter Kuper is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The Nation and MAD magazine where he has written and illustrated SPY vs. SPY every issue since 1997. He is the co-founder and editor of World War 3 Illustrated a political graphics magazine that has given a forum to political artists for 40 years. He has produced over two dozen books including The System, Diario de Oaxaca, Ruins (winner of the 2016 Eisner Award) and adaptations of many of Franz Kafka's works into comics including The Metamorphosisand Kafkaesque (winner of the 2018 Reuben Award) . His latest graphic novel is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. He has lectured around the world and has taught comics courses at The School of Visual Arts in NYC and Harvard University.
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