Direct quotes from Last Week Tonight w/John Oliver...
Hey fam,
John Oliver's show Last Week Tonight dropped a new episode on YouTube on Sunday.
The episode was all about the power of sheriffs, so while I was watching it, I opened my Big Black Sketchbook and started drawing this caricature of Todd Entrekin, the Sheriff of Etowah County, Alabama.
Starting at about the 8 minute mark, John talks about how Sheriff Entrekin bought a $740,000 beach house with taxpayer money set aside for county jail inmates' meals.
Unfortunately, this was technically legal.
With over a thousand sheriffs up for election this year, John Oliver discusses how much power – and how little accountability – they have.
After a few hours of client work, I came back and inked the drawing in Photoshop.
Then, my OCSD (obsessive comic strip disorder) kicked in, and I couldn't sleep without drawing this:
I started offering paid memberships to give fans a way to support my art practice, to allow me to make more decisions based on my artist's instincts rather than on my cold reptilian business brain.
(like *ahem* spending hours drawing a comic strip based on a YouTube video)
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