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Pushback Jack: When the Cartoon Got Too Complicated

This one starts with a failed project. A while back I wrote about MAGA Mick — a cartoon character I was building in CreateStudio4. A flannel-wearing Republican voter, slowly reckoning with the gap between what he’d been told and what he was seeing. Satirical cards, one after the other. The premise was solid. The execution? Brutal.

Red Hats, Cold Feet

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Meet MAGA Mick Something new is brewing. I’ve started work on an animated cartoon—limited animation, to be honest. We’re talking slow blinks, head tilts, awkward shuffles. The kind of movement that mirrors the mental gymnastics of a man caught in a moral midlife crisis.