Manu Cornet

@lmanul.bsky.social

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Cartoonist; writer; feminist. Occasional attempts at being funny. Equally kind to CEOs and janitors. https://ma.nu

Panel #1, Milo (a male character with large eye glasses and wavy hair), hands in his pockets, says "Team, code review time! Show me what you got. Neil ? Ada ?". Neil hands Milo a few sheets of paper. Ada hands him a short stack.
Panel #1, one "AI" character (black rectangular box) is standing outside a closed door in a dark environment. A trap door is open within the door, with another AI character peeking through: "Challenge required. How many Zs in 'strawberry'?". The outside AI replies "Twelve".
Panel #1, a group of artificial intelligence characters (black rectangles) with logos such as Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, Grok, are standing on a large pile of books, CDs, sheets of paper, films, and are using large straws to slurp content from them.
Panel 1: two men are chatting. They are both wearing primary-colored clothes and sunglasses. One of them is smoking a cigar. Left guy: "8 years ago we refused to work with the military with project Maven. Today we have zero qualms. How do we rationalize that?"
A photo of JD Vance against a wall. He appears very small.
Panel 1: Sundar Pichai (Google CEO) and a female employee are discussing. Sundar: "In response to a recent petition, we hereby pledge NEVER to help the US military develop a weapons system...". Woman: "YAY!"
The cartoon has a single panel. An officer is seen from the back, extending both his arms on either side to separate a mother and her daughter, who are both crying. On the right-hand side, you can see prison cells with a United States flag. On the back of the officer's black body armor, you can read "Customs & Border Protection", and underneath: "Powered by Google" (colorful Google logo).
In the first panel, two men wearing suits and ties are talking. Man A: "We made a big mistake." Man B: "Hmmmm?" Man A: "We thought we'd kill two birds with one stone by reassigning I.C.E. agents to help triage the thousands of Epstein files." Man B: "Smart.".
A blonde woman wearing a red shirt and light blue jeans is sitting on the floor of her home, legs bent, and her arms wrapped around her knees. She says "I'm afraid to go out into the streets that I.C.E. is making safer."
Panel #1, we see Milo (a male character with large eye glasses and wavy hair) say: "OK folks, Elon Musk is the worst thing that could've happened to Twitter. But at least now it has nowhere to go but up." A character off-screen says: "Hold my beer...".
The cartoon shows Donald Trump, wearing his usual dark blue suit and red necktie, saying "Give me the Nobel Peach Prize or I nuke Sweden".
A woman is sitting on the floor of a tiny prison cell. Guarding the cell is a heavily armed guard, his body armor reads "ICE". On top of the drawing, two signs are pointing to each person. Each sign reads "Committed a crime", and "Convicted of a crime", with checkbox for each statement. For the woman, both checkboxes are empty. For the ICE guard, both checkboxes are ticked.
Donald Trump, wearing his signature dark blue suit and red necktie, is in the same position as a peeing dog, lifting his left. He has soiled with yellow liquid a sign reading "Kennedy Center", what seems to be the white house, a sign reading "Venezuela", and next up is another sign reading "Col..."
The image is Manu's 2026 new year card. We see Manu seemingly swimming in mid-air, among the clouds. Four colored balloons read 'Manu Cornet', 'Wishes you', 'A lighter-than-air', '2026'. Also floating in the sky are Manu's daughter Sophie, on a snowboard, some cartoon pages and drawing tools, a book, a gaming controller, a bowl of noodles, a fictional representation of a carbon atom, a backpack, a bird, and a Zeppelin that reads 'This card is 100% A.I.-free'.
A modified photo of FBI director Kash Patel, cross-eyed.
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Panel 1: Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, and Sundar Pichai are standing in front of a television. A speech bubble is coming from the TV: "... for all H1B visas, a $100,000 fee, and for...". All three CEOs have speech bubbles full of insults in the form of drawings of a skull, a pig, a turd, dynamite, etc.
A series of 100 portraits of women Google employees along with a summary of their main achievements. At the bottom, a label reads "Women in tech — Rocking Google since 1998."
Panel 1: Milo is sitting at his desk, using his laptop. Milo: "Oooh-kaaay, all documents saved. Aaaand File... Quit." A speech bubble from the computer replies. It shows a modal dialog box: "Are you sure you want to quit? [Stay][Leave]"
Panel 1: Milo (man with wavy hair) is standing and speaking to the reader. Milo: "I've heard that if your direct report is surprised when you deliver them a poor quarterly performance review, you've done a bad job. It shouldn't come as a surprise." "I agree."
Panel 1: We see two trees, and a yellow hammock is set up between them. A man is lying down in the hammock. He says "Sometimes when I'm resting, I think about the countless people actively working to make things better, especially in software."
Panel 1: a man and a woman are standing in front of each other. The man says "I just used an LLM to write my resignation email". The woman replies "Good for you. You could have done it yourself in about 6 minutes."
Panel 1: A woman is carefully assembling a large model of a suspended bridge.
A photo montage with 9 faces: Akayesu, Hitler, Karadzic, Milosevic, Mladic, Netanyahu, Pinochet, Pot, Putin.
A boa snake in the jungle, preparing to eat a pile of paper.
"0 days since they've ever seen anything like it"
The drawing reproduces the scene of policeman Derek Chauvin with his knee on George Floyd's neck, but the person kneeling is Donald Trump and lying down is the statue of liberty.
Panel 1: An old Google logo, a blue G and "Don't be evil".
Panel 1: A label "How to survive in Gaza". A reporter wearing a body armor and a helmet with huge "PRESS" letters. Underneath, a red "X", a rifle gun, and a "skull and bones" symbol.
The cartoon shows Benjamin Netanyahu in his usual suit, looking at the reader. He says: "We need to speed up the evacuation of Gaza. So we're going to use some trains. We got a bunch of old ones for cheap that Germany didn't want."
A fabricated screenshot showing how Amazon could show the impact of tariffs.
The cartoon shows Elon Musk juggling with three large spheres. One contains dollar bills, another contains a crowd of small blue birds, the last one is the Earth. Musk says "So much fun!".
An artist "starter pack". It contains a pencil and some blank paper, and has mentions like "So easy!!", "ages: 2 and way up", and "eraser not included because you don't need it to start!" as well as a "AI forbidden" logo.
Panel 1: Sergey Brin, wearing a blue t-shirt, says: "Folks, I know the last few years have been hard. The 60- and 80-hour work weeks have been taxing. People's health were affected, families were damaged, marriages were broken." In a smaller font: "At least, mine was."
The drawing shows a portrait of Donald Trump on a green background, wearing his usual blue suit and red necktie, saying "Give me the Nobel peace prize or I nuke Sweden".
A screenshot of the video for this podcast.
The cartoon shows a hand holding a letter and an opened envelope. The letter reads: "Dear Earthling, Within 48 hours, please produce concrete evidence of your existence's usefulness over the past week, or kindly use the enclosed. Regards." — a handgun is taped to the bottom half of the paper.
Panel 1: we see Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk, against a blue background. Pichai says "You mustn't regulate A.I.". Zuckerberg says "Give the technology a chance!". Musk says "For the good of Humanity".
The cartoon is a drawing of the "Uncle Sam" character pointing a finger at the reader and frowning. He is wearing a hat with the Tesla logo. In a speech bubble, he says "EXTREMELY HARDCORE or I don't want you."
The cartoon shows a scene similar to "Matrix", with two hands being presented to the viewer. On the left, a blue pill labelled "fly away". On the right, a red pill labelled "burn out slaving away for a sociopathic clown". Off-screen, a speech bubble reads "Hmmm that's a tough one..."
The comic shows Elon Musk wearing a Nazi uniform with a swastika on the arm, performing a clear "Heil Hitler" salute. Next to him is a man with a red shirt and blue pants saying "Hmm... Still a little ambiguous".
Elon Musk performing an unambiguous Nazi salute.
A plane painted in light blue and bearing the white Twitter logo has just crashed and is burning and smoking. Elon Musk is watching for afar. Next to him, Donald Trump is saying "Cool. Can we do the same with the USA?"
A screenshot of the "Extremely Hardcore" ebook with numerous matches for the search query "Cornet".
The drawing represents two Google executives (Prabhakar Raghavan and Sundar Pichai) standing in front of a large sign. Both are holding multicolor pens and seem to have altered the slogans written on the sign, as follows. "Don't be evil" (added: "unless it's profitable"). "Put the user first" (added: "and the stock price zeroth"). "80%" (striked through, replaced with "120 hours / week") on your main project, 20% on innovative ideas" (second half striked through). "Organize" ("organ" striked through, replaced with "monet") the world's information.
The comic contains 4 panels. In the first panel, a male character wearing a red top and dark blue jeans is pacing, palms facing the ceiling, and says: "The problem with trying to write about depression...".
Panel 1: Alice and the sloth are sitting down against a tree trunk. Alice: "Human memory is really annoying."
The cartoon shows one man wearing a Google-branded hat and a blue shirt talking to a woman in a red shirt. Panel 1. The man: "Hello user! Have you tried Bard?" The woman: "I did. But I think ChatGPT still works better." Panel 2. The man: "A ha! Now we have Gemini, which will be even better!" Panel 3. The woman: "Oh, Google... You've been in this specific market for just 6 months, and already you've manager to make your branding confusing." The man: "Okay but 12 people got promoted."
Panel 1: Alice and the sloth are lying down on the grass. Alice: "I just don't understand this world at all...". The sloth: "Yeah... everything is so broken and unfair..."
The cover of the book "Twittoons"
Panel 1: Alice is sitting on a tree branch. The sloth is hanging from the same branch, upside down. Alice: "You know, one reason why I was looking for solitude in the forest is all the cat calling to girls in the city."
Panel 1: the sloth says "Sorry for ruining the 'solitude' part." — Alice: "It's okay, I had finished my run anyway."
Panel 1: the girl in a red shirt is on the left of the panel, and the sloth is hanging upside down from a tree branch, on the right. The sloth: "What brings you here?" The girl: "Looking for some solitude." The sloth: "Ah."
Panel 1: a forest seen from afar