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Will Caron
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Artist, writer, social justice advocate.

New editorial cartoons every Sunday in Honolulu Civil Beat. Commissions open.

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"Thankful On Demand"

Faced with a venture-capital-funded turkey and an AI-generated logo, a cartoonist contemplates the collapse of civilization over cranberry sauce.

#art #artwork #digitalart #cartoon #comicstrip #webcomic #absurdist #capitalism #techbros #disruption #middleware #thanksgiving
The dinner table at Owen and Gail's house is overflowing with food. Elis' older brother, MARK, and his wife, CHLOE, are beaming. Chloe holds up her phone to show something to Elis, who is sitting across the table from her. Layla listens to Mark's comment with skepticism on her face. CHLOE (brightly): You’ll love this, Elis! Our new start-up, "Gobble," delivers artisanal, free-range turkey by subscription! GAIL: Isn’t the little logo cute? MARK (cocky): We're disrupting gratitude. OWEN: It’s like the Uber of thankfulness! Elis stares at the phone in front of him, becoming increasingly annoyed. ELIS: You put a middleware layer on gratitude to take a vig. ELIS: And let me guess, your Series A is funded by "Pilgrim Hat Capital." ELIS: It's an AI-generated logo. ELIS: Do you people know me, like, at all? Chloe continues to hold up her phone for Elis, unperturbed by Elis' darkening mood. We can now see the mobile app logo on her screen; an AI-generated logo of a turkey wearing a pilgrim hat, smoking a corncob pipe and holding an assault rifle. Mark looks a bit ruffled, not by Elis' mood, but rather by the memory of his investors finding the hat to be controversial. MARK: ...It's "Pilgrim Venture Partners." Investors found the Hat to be... controversial. CHLOE (beaming): The AI said our logo needed more "rugged individualism." So we gave the turkey a pipe! ELIS (sarcastically, from out of panel): Sure. That makes sense. CHLOE (beaming): Isn't it great? Elis's face is a mask of existential hopelessness hidden behind a grimace meant to be a smile. Blood pours from his nose and ears and he has clenched his jaw so tightly that he has shattered his teeth. Next to him Layla looks calm and serene. Behind them on the wall is a family photo of Owen, Gail, Mark and Elis in front of the Vegas Sphere. Everyone but Elis looks like they're having a great time. Elis looks miserable. ELIS: Yes... ha ha! A million-dollar idea, in fact. Barren lies the soil of the spirit. Long is the winter of discontent. LAYLA: Ok, easy there John White... Pass me the gravy train.
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
willcaron.bsky.social
"Thankful On Demand"

Faced with a venture-capital-funded turkey and an AI-generated logo, a cartoonist contemplates the collapse of civilization over cranberry sauce.

#art #artwork #digitalart #cartoon #comicstrip #webcomic #absurdist #capitalism #techbros #disruption #middleware #thanksgiving
The dinner table at Owen and Gail's house is overflowing with food. Elis' older brother, MARK, and his wife, CHLOE, are beaming. Chloe holds up her phone to show something to Elis, who is sitting across the table from her. Layla listens to Mark's comment with skepticism on her face. CHLOE (brightly): You’ll love this, Elis! Our new start-up, "Gobble," delivers artisanal, free-range turkey by subscription! GAIL: Isn’t the little logo cute? MARK (cocky): We're disrupting gratitude. OWEN: It’s like the Uber of thankfulness! Elis stares at the phone in front of him, becoming increasingly annoyed. ELIS: You put a middleware layer on gratitude to take a vig. ELIS: And let me guess, your Series A is funded by "Pilgrim Hat Capital." ELIS: It's an AI-generated logo. ELIS: Do you people know me, like, at all? Chloe continues to hold up her phone for Elis, unperturbed by Elis' darkening mood. We can now see the mobile app logo on her screen; an AI-generated logo of a turkey wearing a pilgrim hat, smoking a corncob pipe and holding an assault rifle. Mark looks a bit ruffled, not by Elis' mood, but rather by the memory of his investors finding the hat to be controversial. MARK: ...It's "Pilgrim Venture Partners." Investors found the Hat to be... controversial. CHLOE (beaming): The AI said our logo needed more "rugged individualism." So we gave the turkey a pipe! ELIS (sarcastically, from out of panel): Sure. That makes sense. CHLOE (beaming): Isn't it great? Elis's face is a mask of existential hopelessness hidden behind a grimace meant to be a smile. Blood pours from his nose and ears and he has clenched his jaw so tightly that he has shattered his teeth. Next to him Layla looks calm and serene. Behind them on the wall is a family photo of Owen, Gail, Mark and Elis in front of the Vegas Sphere. Everyone but Elis looks like they're having a great time. Elis looks miserable. ELIS: Yes... ha ha! A million-dollar idea, in fact. Barren lies the soil of the spirit. Long is the winter of discontent. LAYLA: Ok, easy there John White... Pass me the gravy train.
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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stano.bsky.social
Crucially, by upholding their constitution and the rule of law, Brazil discovered that support for Bolsonaro evaporated save for a dwindling minority of die-hards and dead-enders. Because Brazilians see Bolsonaro as a criminal and a loser, they've largely moved on from him.

Could've been us...
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d
Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapses Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been ordered to start serving his 27-year sentence in a 12 sq metre bedroom in a police base in the capital, Brasília, after his conviction for plotting a coup. The far-right populist, who governed Latin America’s largest democracy from 2019 until 2022, was handed the punishment in September after the supreme court found him guilty of leading a criminal conspiracy to stop his leftwing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, taking power. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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davidjbier.bsky.social
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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lebassett.bsky.social
So either Trump spoke to Bolsonaro about plotting to escape to the US right before the latter got caught trying to saw off his ankle monitor, or Trump imagined a conversation he didn’t have. Both scenarios are incredibly dark
stevebenen.com Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 4d
An amazing new Trump controversy, Part II of II:

- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”

- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Bolsonaro White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro
Did the Republican president talk to Bolsonaro as the Brazilian plotted to escape? Trump said yes, but the White House isn’t so sure.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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hemakaainana.bsky.social
I get why monopolies exist, but they should all be publicly owned. They can’t and shouldn’t be run the same as the DMV, but states can and do run highly successful companies. When we grant a monopoly, we guarantee the owner profits. it’s not clear to me that we get a benefit from that.
willcaron.bsky.social Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 5d
"I Ship You Not"

The Young Brothers interisland shipping #monopoly just won a 25% rate hike from the Public Utilities Commission. Parent company shareholders are made whole, while local consumers are stuck with ever-higher food prices.

#art #artwork #cartoon #editorialcartoon #illustration #hawaii
massive, looming Young Brothers cargo ship takes up almost three-fourths of the panel, threatening to swamp a small, desperate raft laden with life-giving local food—melons, onions, and corn from Kauaʻi. The four paddlers on this raft aren't just fighting the waves; they're fighting to keep their livelihoods, and a piece of Hawaiʻi's food security, from being sent to the bottom of the sea. On the massive ship, the shipping container labels tell a familiar story: "Bail-Out Buckets," "Rubber Stamps," "Monopoly Money," and "Greased Palms." These critiques are a direct reflection of the systemic failures and cozy relationships that have led us to a breaking point. My latest cartoon attempts to capture the sheer, overwhelming force of the recently approved 25.75 percent Young Brothers rate hike and the grim situation this will force Hawaiʻi’s inter-island shippers, farmers, and consumers to navigate.
November 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
willcaron.bsky.social
"I Ship You Not"

The Young Brothers interisland shipping #monopoly just won a 25% rate hike from the Public Utilities Commission. Parent company shareholders are made whole, while local consumers are stuck with ever-higher food prices.

#art #artwork #cartoon #editorialcartoon #illustration #hawaii
massive, looming Young Brothers cargo ship takes up almost three-fourths of the panel, threatening to swamp a small, desperate raft laden with life-giving local food—melons, onions, and corn from Kauaʻi. The four paddlers on this raft aren't just fighting the waves; they're fighting to keep their livelihoods, and a piece of Hawaiʻi's food security, from being sent to the bottom of the sea. On the massive ship, the shipping container labels tell a familiar story: "Bail-Out Buckets," "Rubber Stamps," "Monopoly Money," and "Greased Palms." These critiques are a direct reflection of the systemic failures and cozy relationships that have led us to a breaking point. My latest cartoon attempts to capture the sheer, overwhelming force of the recently approved 25.75 percent Young Brothers rate hike and the grim situation this will force Hawaiʻi’s inter-island shippers, farmers, and consumers to navigate.
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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katz.theracket.news
War criminal says what
SUBSCRIBE FOREIGN AFFAIRS How to Topple Maduro And Why Regime Change Is the Only Way Forward in Venezuela ELLIOTT ABRAMS November 20, 2025 MENU Q=
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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b0tster.yeag.gay
i literally cannot watch the video of zohran charming trump with his charisma. it looks like a video from a different dimension where everything is ok and happy and if i watch it it might ruin the space time continuum
November 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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self.agency
all i know is that zohran mamdani just showed he is better at getting the president to concede and defer to him than literally any democrat in washington
November 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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paintedsky.ca
Zohran did a Charisma check and rolled a nat 20
kevjg.bsky.social Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 8d
he never looks at JD that way
November 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
willcaron.bsky.social
Dumbest people alive.
November 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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hiappleseed.bsky.social
The Honolulu City Council should work on disaster planning, summer feeding programs for children, kūpuna programs, and direct funding for food banks.

#FoodSecurity #EmergencyManagement

www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
How City Council could improve food security for Oʻahu residents
Hawaiʻi Appleseed recommended that the Honolulu City Council work on four areas to improve food security on Oʻahu: disaster planning, summer feeding programs for children, kūpuna programs, and direct ...
www.hawaiipublicradio.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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willcaron.bsky.social
"Immanent Domain"

To defeat a fascist pothole, a cartoonist and his partner unleash the one thing it can't handle: a civil servant armed with duplicate forms and a preliminary injunction.

#art #artwork #digitalart #cartoon #webcomic #comicstrip #fascism #liberalism #philosophy #absurdist #surreal
Panel 1: Elis and Layla stand in what's left of their driveway assembling a structure made of household items and furniture. The wind has picked up and is whipping their hair around as the fascist pothole continues to encroach on their house. ELIS: Are you sure this will work? LAYLA: In theory... fascist states are staffed by loyalists, not competent civil servants. It shouldn't be that hard to jam up its internal bureaucracy! ELIS: I meant the other part! Are you sure she'll come? PANEL 2: The city clerk, Brenda, appears in a poof of orange smoke, her hands posed like Dr. Strange. Layla and Elis drop to their knees as the ground beneath them begins to crumble. Layla points at the invading pothole to draw Brenda's attention to it. BRENDA: What's this? Is it an accessory dwelling unit, or a dump? Either way you are not zoned for this. LAYLA: We know! We've got bigger problems right now! BRENDA: Oh, for Pete's sake! PANEL 3: Brenda shouts down into the pothole while holding up a stack of forms in her left hand. Behind her, Layla and Elis hold on as the ground beneath them buckles and rumbles. The sign the pothole erected declaring its sovereignty is bent backward away from Brenda. BRENDA: This is an illegitimate declaration of sovereignty! You are in violation of city ordinance 21-03! I have here Form 12B-45, its supplement 12B-45/b, and a preliminary injunction against further gravel-based irredentism! ELIS: It’s working! LAYLA: It can't handle the paperwork! PANEL 4: The pothole has returned to normal, and Brenda supervises a contractor as he tamps down a new pitch of asphalt over it. Elis and Layla observe from afar while they assess the final situation. ELIS: Convoluted bureaucracy saves the day? LAYLA: "Save" is a strong word. It maintained its fragile stasis. It hasn't solved any problems; it is merely managing our decay. CONTRACTOR: That should hold for another six months. ELIS: Ah. So we filed for an extension.
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
willcaron.bsky.social
"Immanent Domain"

To defeat a fascist pothole, a cartoonist and his partner unleash the one thing it can't handle: a civil servant armed with duplicate forms and a preliminary injunction.

#art #artwork #digitalart #cartoon #webcomic #comicstrip #fascism #liberalism #philosophy #absurdist #surreal
Panel 1: Elis and Layla stand in what's left of their driveway assembling a structure made of household items and furniture. The wind has picked up and is whipping their hair around as the fascist pothole continues to encroach on their house. ELIS: Are you sure this will work? LAYLA: In theory... fascist states are staffed by loyalists, not competent civil servants. It shouldn't be that hard to jam up its internal bureaucracy! ELIS: I meant the other part! Are you sure she'll come? PANEL 2: The city clerk, Brenda, appears in a poof of orange smoke, her hands posed like Dr. Strange. Layla and Elis drop to their knees as the ground beneath them begins to crumble. Layla points at the invading pothole to draw Brenda's attention to it. BRENDA: What's this? Is it an accessory dwelling unit, or a dump? Either way you are not zoned for this. LAYLA: We know! We've got bigger problems right now! BRENDA: Oh, for Pete's sake! PANEL 3: Brenda shouts down into the pothole while holding up a stack of forms in her left hand. Behind her, Layla and Elis hold on as the ground beneath them buckles and rumbles. The sign the pothole erected declaring its sovereignty is bent backward away from Brenda. BRENDA: This is an illegitimate declaration of sovereignty! You are in violation of city ordinance 21-03! I have here Form 12B-45, its supplement 12B-45/b, and a preliminary injunction against further gravel-based irredentism! ELIS: It’s working! LAYLA: It can't handle the paperwork! PANEL 4: The pothole has returned to normal, and Brenda supervises a contractor as he tamps down a new pitch of asphalt over it. Elis and Layla observe from afar while they assess the final situation. ELIS: Convoluted bureaucracy saves the day? LAYLA: "Save" is a strong word. It maintained its fragile stasis. It hasn't solved any problems; it is merely managing our decay. CONTRACTOR: That should hold for another six months. ELIS: Ah. So we filed for an extension.
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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gralefrit.bsky.social
Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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hiappleseed.bsky.social
Schools in low-income areas can automatically provide all students with free school meals under a federal program. Some 46,000 Hawaii students attend schools that may stop participating in that program, according to an analysis from @urbaninstitute.bsky.social

www.civilbeat.org/2025/11/more...
New Report: More Hawaiʻi Residents Going Hungry
The report was produced at a time when food security was bad in Hawaiʻi. But now, advocates say, it's even worse.
www.civilbeat.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Deeply ashamed just because you were soliciting a convicted child predator for advice on cheating on your wife my pressuring a younger colleague into sleeping with you while sneering at her and her work?

Gosh Ross Douthat better write another piece decrying woke culture
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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willcaron.bsky.social
I want to believe... in a corruption-free legislature! Calls are growing to reveal the identify of the lawmaker who took $35k in cash, but senate and house leadership could do a lot more to get to the truth. 🛸📁

#art #cartoon #editorialcartoon #digitalart #illustration #hawaii #corruption #ethics
In my latest editorial cartoon, federal prosecutor Alexander Silvert and State Rep. Della Belatti play our Mulder and Scully, prowling a darkened hallway in the Hawai‘i State Legislature searching for the truth: who is the mystery lawmaker the FBI observed accepting $35,000 in a paper bag? And why has no one been held accountable for accepting what is clearly a bribe or payoff of some sort? In a darkened office, this redacted lawmaker sits in the shadows, barely illuminated by the cherry of a lit cigar. Behind this shadowy figure is a row of filing cabinets. The lawmaker is seen running documents though a paper shredder. In another office, Senate President Kouchi floats, suspended in stasis within a green vat, symbolizing his absenteeism from the growing scandal. House Speaker Nakamura, meanwhile, trails our Scully and Mulder, dressed as a member of the Men in Black, a memory-eraser pen poised in her hand. Is her recently sent letters to the state AG and federal prosecutors really an attempt to help get to the truth? Or is it just a way to cover her ass as she points the pen at the public to make us forget? The truth is in here somewhere.
November 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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stefanheck.bsky.social
"The worm doesn't make me eat dead rats. I was doing that before the worm," he purred at me like one of the diseased cats that would follow him around whenever he had a dead rat in his pocket that he was saving for later. He really liked eating them. He coughed and it sounded like a lawnmower hitting a sprinkler head. His leathery skin crackled in the evening sun. He had to leave tonight - he was speaking at a conference for people who think medicine turns you gay. Sometimes when he was away I would rub an old catcher's mitt up and down my legs and pretend he was giving me a massage. - excerpt from “I Don't Know Why He Sounds Like That: My Disgusting Affair with RFK Jr” by Olivia Nuzzi
November 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
willcaron.bsky.social
I want to believe... in a corruption-free legislature! Calls are growing to reveal the identify of the lawmaker who took $35k in cash, but senate and house leadership could do a lot more to get to the truth. 🛸📁

#art #cartoon #editorialcartoon #digitalart #illustration #hawaii #corruption #ethics
In my latest editorial cartoon, federal prosecutor Alexander Silvert and State Rep. Della Belatti play our Mulder and Scully, prowling a darkened hallway in the Hawai‘i State Legislature searching for the truth: who is the mystery lawmaker the FBI observed accepting $35,000 in a paper bag? And why has no one been held accountable for accepting what is clearly a bribe or payoff of some sort? In a darkened office, this redacted lawmaker sits in the shadows, barely illuminated by the cherry of a lit cigar. Behind this shadowy figure is a row of filing cabinets. The lawmaker is seen running documents though a paper shredder. In another office, Senate President Kouchi floats, suspended in stasis within a green vat, symbolizing his absenteeism from the growing scandal. House Speaker Nakamura, meanwhile, trails our Scully and Mulder, dressed as a member of the Men in Black, a memory-eraser pen poised in her hand. Is her recently sent letters to the state AG and federal prosecutors really an attempt to help get to the truth? Or is it just a way to cover her ass as she points the pen at the public to make us forget? The truth is in here somewhere.
November 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Sick to my stomach that the President being mixed up with a horrifying global network of pedophiles is considered a 'voter issue' and not something the whole world needs to know about and people need to be prosecuted for.

Only reason anyone would want people to ignore Epstein is if you're involved
brianbeutler.bsky.social Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 15d
The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
Force A Referendum On The Epstein Coverup
It divides Republicans much more than "affordability" or any other economic issue.
www.offmessage.net
November 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM