"Let's Compromise!": a political cartoon with Barry

Hi patrons! This is Becky from the paaast, scheduling a political cartoon to go out while I'm on vacation.

Barry keeps a digital folder of potential political cartoon scripts. Sometimes he'll point my attention to a script that requires drawing specific environments or various historical periods. Other times I'll browse the folder and pick something that sounds fun to draw, or that covers a topic I'm interested in. So I often start a Patreon post with how I came to draw this particular Barry-script:

I chose to draw this cartoon because the image of a "centrist" listing all of the concessions that leftists should make in order for conservatives to begin to engage in basic effing self-preservation with regard to climate change... well, it resonated with me. It was refreshing to draw someone screaming in frustration in panel four.

Cartoons like this are often set in a cafe, park, bus stop, or home, anywhere that two people might discuss current events. As I mentally flipped through those options, I remembered a fun, relatively deep conversation with a stranger a couple of summers ago. Being in Portland, Oregon, this happened at a patio with food stalls, picnic tables, and fire pits. I thought that would be fun to draw, and it was.

A lot of food trucks have punny names. I chose "Holy Crêpe" for the name of the cart, and turned to my partner Naomi, a born-and-bred punster, for help with the Daily Specials. I originally thought the menu names might be heaven-related (putting the "Holy" in "Holy Crêpe"), so you can just see "The Destiel - a heavenly crêpe topped with... " listed as a sweet crêpe in the background. (All I know about Destiel is that it's a portmanteau of the names of two characters from the TV show Supernatural, one of whom is an angel, that a lot of fans wanted to become a couple. I guess it came to mind because a friend of mine explained that to me recently. Hi Nathan. I feel a little silly typing all this out.)

The daily specials in the background are "America's Apricot Talent," "Nutella Mockingbird," "Between a Guac and a Chard Place," and "A Cream Deferred (vegan)." I definitely want to try and make "Between a Guac and a Chard Place" with Naomi. If we do, I'll let you know how it goes.