ban on alcohol
Jul
18
2022
The four-panel cartoon depicts a man in a green shirt repeatedly swigging from a bottle labeled booze, chugging beer from a can, and toking on a pipe emitting purple smoke. In the final panel he stands beside a red-haired woman with stars circling his head and says it is time to turn on the news. The sequence published July 18 2022 comments on habits of news viewers amid coverage from ABC NBC CBS MSNBC CNN and Fox. The artist uses simple line work and repeated onomatopoeia to show progression from sober to impaired. No specific political figure or breaking event is shown.
