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22 July 2020 (yesterday as I write this) was the eighth anniversary of the debut of this strip. When I started it I never could have imagined that I would still be drawing it so many years later, or that it would become such a big part of my life. I had started it for fun and as a way of letting off steam at the murderous and hypocritical Amerikastani Global War Of Terror. And now, so many years later, I am still drawing it because of…the murderous and hypocritical Amerikastani Global War Of Terror. So…thanks, Amerikastan, maybe?
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Of course things have changed in the strip. First it was a one character strip (Raghead E. Villdoer, now virtually retired) who was joined by Killary Klingon, Towelhead, Doctor Diaperhead, Mullah Muftihead, and Jack the Reaper. Later on I added the Pravii Sektor Ukranazis Stepan and Andriy. All those characters would be unknown to most current readers. Today the strip revolves around Jihadi Colin, initially planned as a background character, who rapidly took over the strip; his girlfriend Jihadi Rose, and their companions. While they will continue to be the core of this strip, look for Taliban characters Shuja and Hadeed to feature more prominently in future.
And, thanks for reading. I appreciate it.

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If anyone is wondering what this is about: one of the Imperialist States of Amerikastan’s worst warmonger propaganda rags, the New York Times, now claims that Russia is paying the Taliban for every Amerikastani invader exterminated in Afghanistan. Because, you know, the Taliban wouldn’t already do that.
And, yes, the last panel contains a reference to a joke from Dr Strangelove. Probably the greatest Hollywood flick ever made, it would be called “Russian propaganda” today.
Faced with its utter incompetence, which has wrecked the economy, tens of millions of livelihoods, and with a COVID-19 lockdown that has proved an utter disaster, the Modi regime in India is doing the only thing it knows how to do – distract attention, this time by manufacturing a border crisis with China, as it last did in 2017. It will not succeed, despite the efforts of the regime’s pet media channels and paid army of online trolls.
I pilfered the title of this cartoon from the Colonel Cassad site. It was too good a pun to pass up.
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Today’s cartoon is dedicated to all those wonderful, wonderful people who are always as eager as gulper eels to swallow any and all Western propaganda about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the more ridiculous the better. See, I care about all of you!