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thegortran.bsky.social
The Gorgon Transplant
@thegortran.bsky.social
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🎨Artist/✒️Illustrator/🖌cartoonist/Maker of my own cartoon compilation books a la Far Side.
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thegortran.bsky.social
When the repurpose is so strong you have to draw a fresh new panel. (Last pic)
A family sits on the couch watching tv. 1st panel - Father: ICE took him? Mother: But he's a citizen. 2nd panel - Father: ICE took them all?! Mother: "But they had work visas" 3rd panel - Father: ICE took her?! Mother: But she's Native American! 4th Panel - Family is met with gunpoint by ICE agents having broken into their home.
January 25, 2026 at 3:27 PM
thegortran.bsky.social
Went down a rabbit hole to the phrase's namesake, Alice in Wonderland, only to cone back up with the Morgan Library featuring manuscripts and the illustrations of both Lewis Carrol and John Tenniel
www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/...
Alice: 150 Years of Wonderland | The Morgan Library & Museum Online Exhibitions
In this online exhibition, we invite you to learn about Alice, Lewis Carroll, and the history of the original manuscript; trace the development of the iconic illustrations; page through a selection of...
www.themorgan.org
January 24, 2026 at 12:26 AM
thegortran.bsky.social
Spotted this at the gas stop. Tuck Frump, indeed.
Message written on 1st van window: "January 6 - Never Forget - Never Forgive" Messeage written on 2nd window: "Tuck Frump- Puck Futin-Castrate Netanyahu" Message on Van window reads "Im Tired of an 8yo running my country"
January 22, 2026 at 9:25 PM
thegortran.bsky.social
People say social media is a mistake, but so far Ive seen:
• People find and return ID cards
• Long lost family or friends find each other
• Thrifters return thrifted photo albums to their owners
• Strangers helping others find jobs or resources
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January 18, 2026 at 5:43 PM
thegortran.bsky.social
Trying to use someone's art as ecidence of crimes they have not commited is why people are afraid to use art as an outlet for violent feelings. Therapists try this crap all the time.
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An artist in the 90s was put in jail for drawing horror comics #comics #mikediana #boiledangel #90s
YouTube video by Treehouse Detective
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January 18, 2026 at 1:20 AM
thegortran.bsky.social
Some artists dont like Jim Davis because he only created Garfield for commercial purposes but Garfield was my gateway to wanting to do comic strips and I'll never be ashamed of that.
Screenshot of post declaring Jim Davis is alive and well.
January 17, 2026 at 2:13 AM
thegortran.bsky.social
I hate when an artist presents a satirical cartoon out of context and "fixes" it. Its those obnocious twitter artists all over again.
(Original Cartoon by Barry Blitt)
Cartoon titled: 4 dynamite New Image Ideas for Michael" presenting MJ with tusks, muscular with steroids, dressed as Kramer from Seinfeld and a skateboarding Hassidic Jew, and finally as Al Jolson with the caption "Harkening back to an american classic, he became the first black man impersonating a white man impersonating a black man." Screenshot of image before Youtube artists "fixes" the cartoon. Screenshot of artist's "fixed" work: Early 1980s michael in a black tuxedo.
January 16, 2026 at 1:50 PM
thegortran.bsky.social
Excuse me while I play my violin for Scott Adams. Dilbert is dead to me.
a person is holding a small pink violin in their hand
ALT: a person is holding a small pink violin in their hand
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January 5, 2026 at 9:47 PM
thegortran.bsky.social
From FB/RemixedNancyBushmiller
January 3, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Reposted by The Gorgon Transplant
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‼️ Last chance for CARTOONIST DEFENDERS in the USA ‼️
Donations to our Pledge Drive made before midnight are tax deductible!
Hurry & lend you support before time runs out: cartoonistsrights.org/donate
IMPOSE A CARTOON TARIFF ON TRUMP! Your donation is tax deductible to the full extent allowable in the US. So rather than fund his agenda, help those suffering under his cuts! Details: cartoonistsrights.org/donate In an editorial cartoon by Ann Telnaes, President Trump is portrayed with a cell phone in one hand, arms raised and mouth wide in a howl of rage.
December 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
thegortran.bsky.social
Imagine the effort it took to paint a moment that's captured on cameras and later phones nowadays.
📷:IG/childhoodpost
18th century painting of a man and his young daughter, the latter who is trying to get the former to look at her doll. The caption reads: A lot of 18th century portraits are slop but occasionally you come across agem like this. The patron paid good money to paint his daughter bothering him with a barbie. "
December 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
thegortran.bsky.social
Peak "it aint that deep" energy.
#sirthisisawendys
1940s panel cartoon showing a woman trying to ne Intimate with a nervous man who suggest the two go out and get burgers with onions (to prevent said initmacy) A group member comments about the cartoon: "The archetype of clod has been the dominion of white males since women got any sympathy. And we say we're not prejudiced. If you look for early Homer Simpson examples, they abound in comic literature. Only our oppressors, attract such free range contempt. Actual and perceived. Men are about so high as we need to reach, to take them down a peg. But if we call them a doofus, don't try to slip an ethnicity in with them. They have to be white, which by virtue of winning so hard, is no ethnicity at all. Only everyone else is ethnic except us, in relation to and as a variant of whatever we are. Which none can definitively clarify beyond terms of more or less in their opinion. About all they're entitled to."
December 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
thegortran.bsky.social
Again, I love the cartoons I can make new with one detail change.
#boobyprize #razzieawards #fifapeaceprize
Cartoon titled "booby prizes" with a wooden spoon labled "loser", a razzie award statue and a superimposed image of Donald Trump wearing the FIFA peace medal.
December 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
thegortran.bsky.social
Jughead cimng out as ace has to be one of the most seamless retcons in character history. He was never intended to be, but old panels lend to the current interpretation so flawlessly.
#asexuality #archiecomics
Jughead watching TV while Veronica and Archie make out. He tells the couple "I wish you two kiss with less noise, you made me miss the punchline of the joke" Judghead lists activities he and Archie can do without women. Archie is lovestruck covered in lipstick marks. Jughead recoils from Betty's kiss of gratitude.
December 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
thegortran.bsky.social
I will always love K & W and it makes me think of my grandparents when I eat there. But that's a thing: It makes me think of my GRANDPARENTS. Not my parents, not my same generation relatives. My grandparents. And my Gen Z relatives probably have no idea it exists.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
thegortran.bsky.social
Posting this to celebrate my local YMCA reopening their jacuzzi after years of quarantine and renovations. It's got new underwater lights and everything. Still aint a sexy one, though.
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
thegortran.bsky.social
As someone on Threads said: "Don't dress like the polka dot dress lady, BE her."
#performativeactivism #polkadotdress #pussyhat #musksteals #pinkblazer
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
thegortran.bsky.social
I just can't get over the fact that Queen victoria was so short that this woman is on her knees and can still reach the collar of Vicki's mourning dress.
A museum handler straightening the collar of Queen victoria's mourning dress wjile seated on her knees.
November 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Reposted by The Gorgon Transplant
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October 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
thegortran.bsky.social
I was on a threads post where it was pointed out that the Morton's Salt logo has had no updates since 1968. Of course, there's no real need to (if it ain't broke, don't fix it), but I Imagined a 21st century update. She'd at least be given pants.
Original sketch of potential Morton's Salt Girl to reflect 21st century look, with 21st cent. clothes. A collage of Morton's Salt girl logos from 1914 to 1968
October 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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From @goodshirts.bsky.social
Baseball cap that reads "The coffee pot at your local 12 step meeting has done more to combat addiction than the entire DEA"
October 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
thegortran.bsky.social
This collage of the Morton's Salt girl shows a pretty good 20th century progression of little girls' fashion as well as popular art styles.
Collage showing the Morton's salt girl illustrations from 1914, 1921, 1933, 1941, 1956 and 1968.
October 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
thegortran.bsky.social
Please remember, everything he's doing -- tearing down the WH wing, pardoning and commuting the worst of the worst, shutting down government, posting that stupid AI vid -- is to enrage us. We can always rebuild the WH and reinstate departments. Keep grey rocking until his end.
A cartoon depicting Donald Trump standing in front of a burning white house. He holds a torch in the air and proclaims "If I can't have it, NO ONE WILL"
October 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Reposted by The Gorgon Transplant
albertvictoria.bsky.social
I wanted to make a little tribute to the original drawings of the Addams family by Charles Addams to celebrate the spooky season 🦇 #TheAddamsFamily
October 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
thegortran.bsky.social
I don't even remember the previous story that inspired this cartoon, but Trump is trying again for the Nobel Peace Prize, so it's well aged. From 2018.

#throwbackthursday #nobelprize #trump #taco #boobyprize #razzieawards #editorialcartoon
Cartoon depicting a wooden spoon with the word "loser" written on it, a Razzie Award and the Nobel Prize with Alfred Nobel saying "Thanks, idiots"
October 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM