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2018 Comics by Jack Ahasteen

Jack Ahasteen

Posted by | Dec 20, 2018 | |

Jack’s latest ‘toon

Home Sweet Home: decorations and presents at base of tree on road leaving reservation. Sidekicks say Nesting ground for lame duck and executives.

Jack Ahasteen’s ‘toon for Dec. 20, 2018.

View a gallery of Jack’s work this year below. (Select any image to view it fullscreen and launch a slideshow.)

Home Sweet Home: decorations and presents at base of tree on road leaving reservation. Sidekicks say Nesting ground for lame duck and executives.
Norteamericano Bandito! Begaye trying to climb wall back to Mexico.
The four horsement of the apocalypse
Legend of the Twins. Nez-Lizer administration says They don't look like twins.
Turkey posing as NGS environmental damaged species. Council delegates remark: Either we put it out of its misery like the voters did to us, or pass the buck.
Close-up of veteran's right shirt pocket, with name of J. Salabye and words Vetearns Day. Medcails include: No Housings, jobs. No VVeteran Hospital. No PTSD Treatment. No full benefit. Sidekicks say, Thank you for your service.
Generations of Navajos from Baby Boomer to Dreamers. For Dreamers, NN government uses them for statustics to beg for money, if only they can vote, Jack writes.
Presidential candidates arrive at voters doors for Halloween with tons of tribal ailments, from diabetes to radiation. Voter asks, Is this a trick again?
Candidates Shirley and Nez painting a mess of tribal dysfunction. Their VPs standing behind them calling them crazy.
Presidential front-runners Joe Shirley and Jonathan Nez, and their running mates, dressed up as toy characters.
Election 2018 candidates with Nez out front of the race, saying That was a nice walk.
Navajo Code Talker Day, showing three code talkers in uniform. Sidekicks say Thank you for saving our country. Semper fidelis.
Voter sitting on ground with sign that reads Vote? Says, We got incumbents that will take us through the some old rut and new faces that are unknown so we're left with ?'s.
Presidential candidates: We want jobs and economic development. Candidates look like gang of robbers, with guns and bullet clips.
Navajo Generating Station dinosaur eating plants. Cavemen say, This is the endo flife as we know it! Sidekicks say, No more wise men that will predict our future!
Man in suit yelling "Grow Up!" to chapter officials wearing diapers and holding wads of money. Another official kneels and drinks from a bottle. Sidekicks say, The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother!
Soveregnty. From ball and chain slave in 1868 to pinstriped cool guy blowing smoke but chained to voters.
Giant bomb labeled Independent Day tossed by Uncle Sam at Navajo's. Sidekicks say The Devil is in the detail. Merciless savage.
Presidential candidate dragging saddle to feral horse. Sidekick says Let's Ride.
Caveman Trump: Footprint of destruction. Dragging children and parent by the hair, as Navajo people watch and proclaim that they at least have k'e.
Road to 2018 election. Candidates all over the road.
Navajo police officer conducts sobriety test on lawyer for board meeting and council meetings. Delegates stand in line for sobriety test. Sidekicks say, "Update Navajo government policy on alcohol abuse! Government Reform?"
Thunder in the Sky. Giant horse surrounded by thunderstorm rides into the sunset.
Council delegate in truck speeds past tiny Navajo Nation jail and says, 'Police chief need to develop these communities with substations with money he's got in his budget to jail these voters that are bad. On my way to collect more stipends."
Sovereignty Rights. Freedom of Religion. Man waving eagle feathers amid rocks bearing sacred sites, 1868 long walk, Navajo and Texas legalize peyote for Native American Church. Sidekicks say, Celebrating Sovereignty Day!
Gender Pay Gap: Working map in pinstripe suit tells Navajo Nation waiter: Ill have the steak dinner. Female worker at table says, I can't afford the steak so I'll just have a salad.
Cowboy coming out of pawn shop with all his equipment and medals. Sidekicks say Luck of the Draw investment!
April Fool or Happy Easter. Trump merging from cracked egg. Sidekicks say, April Fool? Fool in April!
New Utah Voting District map showing sleeping bear. District 2 65.6 Navajo; District 3 79.9 percent Navajo. District 1 11.1 percent Navajo. Sidekick says Bear Country and Bear Protected!
Luck o' the Irish: Pawn shop guy racing away from Navajos who have pawned all their valuables. Sidekick asks Trader or Traitor?
Navajo Nation Science Fair: Student tells attendees, Control the water and you control everything. Meantime, official carts of briefcase full of money for FEMA Drought Insurance. Sidekicks ask if anybody learning how to do the water ceremony.
Let the games begin! Lady basketball players from across the Navajo Nation. Sidekicks say Good luck to all the rez high school basketball teams.
BIA officials in minivan with Fed Policy manual, saying, we won't give them anymore omoney unless they give us full control." Emblem on side of car: The Eagle That Walks. Navajo Nation Jail blowing smoke in background.
Fat voters with tatoo on arm eat box of Valentine's Day chocolates while council delegates should No, no no!
Far Right guy holding both hands up. Far Left guy standing there all mad. Indigenous guy says, These two have made our God Given Land a xxxx hole.
Trickle Down Management. Delegates handing out money, Navajo law, and partying on a platform, why the needy stand below them.
24 or 44? Council delegates trying on pants.
The Rez Dreamers. Man chasing a Navajo dreamer, fleeing the reservation. Man says, we count you when we get money from the fed and other funding agencies to run our tribal government. Sidekicks say, Navajo DACA. Then they get funding to jail him.
Invention of the wheel. Stone-age man chisels rock into wheel, thinking about re-election, donated food, junk food. Sidekicks say, A man's heart is through his stomach.


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Jack Ahasteen