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DMA#35: Drawing on the Edge of the Authoritarian Abyss with Ann Telnaes & Patrick Chappatte
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- Feb 18, 2026
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Summary
Thank you Kevin KAL Kallaugher , Stan! , Paranormal Cartoons , Christopher Thornock , Cat Wilson RN , and the 600+ others who tuned into my live video with Ann Telnaes and Chappatte Cartoons ! Join me for my next live video in the app on Tuesday 24th @ 12pm when I speak with fellow New Yorker cartoonist and author, Liza Donnelly . But first, the recap… “In an autocracy, the autocrat never picks up the phone. He doesn’t have to.” That was the line that stuck with me after yesterday’s Draw Me Anything . It was spoken by Patrick Chappatte ( Chappatte Cartoons ), one of the most respected editorial cartoonists in the world, and it perfectly encapsulates the strange, suffocating atmosphere of 2026. I was joined by Patrick (who joined us from Geneva) and the legendary US-based cartoonist Ann Telnaes for a 45-minute conversation that was less of an artist chat and more like a war room briefing. We had over 600 people tune in live (a record for this show!), which tells me that I am not the only one feeling the need to huddle together for warmth around the glow of a screen. If you missed it, above is the full replay (for paid subscribers) and a breakdown of what we discussed. And we discussed a lot . My Guests If you are new here, let me briefly introduce the titans I was sharing a screen with: * Ann Telnaes is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. She was a staff cartoonist at The Washington Post until early last year, when she resigned after a cartoon was spiked- a canary in the coal mine for the media landscape we now find ourselves in. She now publishes independently on Substack , where her work remains as sharp, elegant, and devastating as ever. (She also revealed a little secret during the stream: she is still using an old-school metal animation disc fro…