I live in a strange, strange state. What’s hiding in all that smog, fog, and detritus, anyway? Is California really the land of dreams, or just schemes? Is it magical, a place to find your success and fortune, and is the weather worth it?
I’m about to find out. I’ve lived here over 15 years, so [...]

Today was tough. I couldn’t find anything I wanted to do a cartoon about!

Then I read this. According to Yahoo News:
Some 14,700 rich Americans, worried about a stepped-up U.S. crackdown on offshore tax cheats, have turned themselves in under the government’s amnesty program.
The Swiss Justice Department said it would hand over the names of wealthy [...]

The Dow went over 10,000. Good news, for those who had the money to invest! At least, that’s what I thought, when I drew this cartoon last week.
But even when I was drawing it, although I like the stock markets, think it’s very nicely capitalistic (although not very nice to most people this year), [...]

Sometimes ideas come to me out of nowhere! In this case, I think I began with the sentence up to budget…and then just tried out some endings. I also don’t know why I thought of Mickey Mouse! It’s not like I like the character, or like Disney in any way. But it was a symbol [...]