Brian McFadden

@mcfadden.bsky.social

8593 Followers 634 Following

Cartoonist in Boston. he/him brianmcfadden.org patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

The stage at TD Garden with screens showing "Weird Al's" Bigger & Weirder tour poster.
(panel 1 - Title on a rough blueprint of a sickly version of DaVinci's Vitruvian Man) Biohacking Hacks
Boston skyline is barely visible through the wildfire smoke. Viewed from Washington Street in Roslindale Square.
(panel 1 - Title on an emergency glass fire alarm box. A Mitch McConnell cartoon is inside.) Emergency OBITUARY Cartoons Do not read before death (panel 2 - St. Peter greeting Mitch McConnell at the Pearly Gates.) Peter, "Wrong floor, bozo." (panel 3 - Satan poking a guy in the butt.) Satan, "You should've stolen a Supreme Court seat for me!" (panel 4 - A gravestone with a warning sign.) sign, "NO URINATING (he might like it and come back to life)" (panel 5 - A person in a HAZMAT suit holding a sign.) sign, "The Senator is still not dead. He just smells real bad." (panel 6 - Mitch McConnell as a ghost.) McConnell, "Don't celebrate yet! I'll be haunting the courts for the rest of your life!"
Rubber squeeze toy with its eyes, nose and ears going in a bunch of zany directions.
(panel 2 - Senator Lindsey Graham crying.) Cry-Babying Graham, "BOO-HOO-HOO! Why, oh why didn't you PUBLICLY DEFEND Brett Kavanaugh from the Democrats' charges?!"
(A faux infographic splitting the silhouette of a person down the middle.) Climate Exhaustion Or Climate Denial Exhaustion: Despair Excessive Sweating Nausea/Vomiting Fatigue Denial: Feigned Ignorance Excessive Profiting Full of Shit No Soul, No Problems (A picture of an overheated woman and an angry businessman) What to Do Exhaustion: Seek Shelter Argue online about air conditioning Yell at your representatives Denial: Cash Donors' Checks Retreat to Bunker Scapegoat Refugees
(panel 1 - Title on an emergency glass fire alarm box. A Mitch McConnell cartoon is inside.) Emergency OBITUARY Cartoons Do not read before death
Vintage sign for Royal Roast Beef and seafood.
At the beach. A tall boy of Narragansett with a USA 250th design similar to the bicentennial edition.
(panel 1 - Title like a party invitation.) Reflecting Pool Party! (panel 2 - JD Vance wading in yellow liquid.) Vance, "I'm negotiating with the algae by altering the pool's pH levels." (panel 3 - Grifter and goofy-looking Trump flunkie J.J. Cafaro with a contract in a pool net.) Cafaro, "I'm fishing for more no-bid contracts!" (panel 4 - Pete Hegseth pouring a green cocktail.) Hegseth, "Don't-HIC! worry! It's nothing a little alcohol can't fix." (panel 5 - Marco Rubio wearing oversized swim trunks.) Rubio, "The President gave me this swimsuit. It's a perfect fit!" (panel 6 - Trump asleep in an inner tube while Karoline Leavitt explains.") Leavitt, "He's not asleep! He's asserting dominance over the pool by oozing more fluids than it can hold."
(panel 1 - Title like a party invitation.) Reflecting Pool Party!
(panel 1 - Title in the FIFA 2026 World Cup logo.) New Cards for 2026 (panel 2 - A pale card with an orange splotchy anus in the center.) The President Demands Our Attention (panel 3 - A USA card with fawning, loving eyes.) Pause for Anecdote about Americans Being Kind In Spite of Their Government (panel 4 - A tattered MBTA ticket.) Inadequate Infrastructure Delay (panel 5 - An invoice.) Bribe FIFA to Resume Play (panel 6 - A hand holding a tactical camo card wearing an ICE hat.) Game Over, Get Out!
A safety sign with blue lettering and waves. The letter P is yellow. "Welcome to our OOL Notice there is no 'P' in it. Let's keep it that way."
The Bunker Hill flag. A blue field with the English flag in the corner, and a New England pine in the top quadrant.
Myself at 7 in 1986 posing for my Brockton Youth Soccer Association team photo. I'm wearing a dark blue tee shirt and caressing a soccer ball.
(panel 1 - Title like a pest control logo.) America's Pest Threats (panel 2 - A sperm-like worm with RFK Jr.'s face.) Screwy Sperm Worm (panel 3 - Stephen Miller as a bot fly emerging from a wound.) Miller's Bot Fly (panel 4 - John Roberts as a weevil eating a ballot.) Vote Weevil (panel 5 - Elon Musk as a mosquito.) South African Muskito (panel 6 - A Trump-like worm.) Executive Shartworm
(panel 1 - Title with a Bari Weiss-themed stopwatch) Bari Minutes' New Hosts (panel 2 - A middle-aged woman scrolling her phone.) Your Estranged Aunt woman, "Reporting live from my Facebook feed..." (panel 3 - A generic guy in a suit) Make-A-Wish Adult guy, "I wished for my horrible opinions to be treated like NEWS." (panel 4 - A vaguely minstrel B&W cartoon pig.) Old-Timey Racist Cartoon cartoon, "Hiya, kids! The 14th Amendment is REVERSE-RACIST!" (panel 5 - A clown with a horn.) Trickle-Down, the Economics Clown clown, "TAX CUTS are gonna work this time!" HONK! (panel 6 - An embryo that has the gross features of David Ellison.) Nepo-Embryo To Be Named Later
The exterior of Fort Warren. Stone wall, grass and clear sky.
(panel 1 - A cluttered Google search result page.) G(A.I.)gle search, "Is Google cooked?" Search instead for "Is Google cucked?" AI Overview, "Google can be cooked at a temperature of 375F for three hours, or longer depending on how much more bloat they added in the time it took to generate this overview. Avoid eating the parts that have been prematurely killed, such as Google Reader, Google Podcasts, and most recently, Google Search." SPONSORED RESULTS: Horny COOKS in your area COKED-Up Finance Guys Are All-In for A.I. Last employed journalist shares recipe for COOKING a single bean. The secret to adding protein to whatever you COOK (It's beans.) PEOPLE ALSO ASK Search engine that works? Why is everything getting worse? Gas leak in Silicon Valley? VIDEOS Is Google Cooked? 20 minute front-facing video that doesn't answer the question When Google Was Cooking Nostalgia-slop for aging Millennials INTRUSIVE POP-UP AD Relent NOW! Use it or get LEFT BEHIND! Our C-Suite's stock portfolio depends on it!
(panel 1 - A cluttered Google search result page.) G(A.I.)gle search, "Is Google cooked?"
(panel 1 - Title on a novelty check held by Trump.) Insurrectionist Slush Fund Sweepstakes Trump, "Every LOSER is a WINNER!" (panel 2 - A nude MAGA pervert.) pervert, "I got a lawyer on retainer for my next sex crime!" (panel 3 - A MAGA fake cowboy guy.) guy, "I put half a tank of gas in my truck!" (panel 4 - A MAGA cop.) cop, "This will help with my future alimony payments!" (panel 5 - A MAGA guy with a bored teen.) guy, "I paid a kid to hang around since mine won't talk to me." (panel 6 - A stupid looking MAGA woman.) woman, "I'm donating this back to Mr. Trump! He'll find a way to go bankrupt again."
(panel 1 - Title on a DECLASSIFIED dossier.) More Identified Aerial Phenomena (panel 2 - A camera drone.) Sean Duffy's Camera Drone While multiple aircraft accidents remain unexamined, the Transportation Secretary's new reality show is well-documented. (panel 3 - A liquor bottle shaped missile.) Booze Cruise Missile Delivers a payload big enough to inebriate Pete Hegseth and secure Pentagon contracts. (panel 4 - A crude drawing of a demon wearing a space helmet.) "Space Demons" by JD Vance Scientists and the Vatican dispute the Vice President's findings. (panel 5 - A nerd stuck to an airborne arrow.) Economist Hoisted by graph while charting inflation. (panel 6 - A blurry image of the Sun behind a gas price sign.) The Sun Mysterious free energy source recorded by a news crew collecting B-roll of gas prices.
(panel 1 - Title on a legal book.) United States Federalist Society Law (panel 2 - A United States flag redrawn so that it's mostly red.) Resegregation Semaphore Samuel Alito (panel 3 - A consternated John Roberts.) Scheming or Pooping? Interpreting the two moods of John Roberts (panel 4 - A ledger with a "TOP SECRET" stamp and a Post-It Note affixed.) Clarence Thomas's Bribe Ledger Unamerican Appendices by Ginni! (panel 5 - A dancing Roger Taney.) Taney! Taney! Taney! A Jim Crow Revival by Gorsuch & Coney Barrett (panel 6 - A beer can in a hollowed out book.) 14 Words and a Beer Brett Kavanaugh(panel 1 - Title on a legal book.) United States Federalist Society Law (panel 2 - A United States flag redrawn so that it's mostly red.) Resegregation Semaphore Samuel Alito (panel 3 - A consternated John Roberts.) Scheming or Pooping? Interpreting the two moods of John Roberts (panel 4 - A ledger with a "TOP SECRET" stamp and a Post-It Note affixed.) Clarence Thomas's Bribe Ledger Unamerican Appendices by Ginni! (panel 5 - A dancing Roger Taney.) Taney! Taney! Taney! A Jim Crow Revival by Gorsuch & Coney Barrett (panel 6 - A beer can in a hollowed out book.) 14 Words and a Beer Brett Kavanaugh
A spoof of the X-Files "I Want to Believe" UFO poster. A VHS tape labelled "The Pee Tape" hovers over trees. Text below says, "I want to Peelieve."
Sullivan's at Castle Island. The sky is a gorgeous blue with a few clouds. The restaurant has solar panels on the roof. ♿ Parking is in the foreground.
(panel 1 - Title on a legal book.) xUnited Statesx Federalist Society Law
(panel 1 - Title in a NYTimes-ish style.) Doofus Group Ding-a-Lings express regrets (panel 2 - A line drawing of a middle-aged executive.) Michael, 67, PA, white, Republican, CEO "My use of the r-word and other slurs went up, but somehow my profits went down." (panel 3 - A finance guy) Conor, 26, NY, white, Republican, Associate at His Father’s Bank "Turns out you can't do insider trading when you're not one of the insiders." (panel 4 - A sleazy car salesman) Ernie, 68, MA, white, "Independent," Auto Dealership Scion "I forgot customers need money to buy my cars and oil to make them move. Whoops!" (panel 5 - Doordash Grandma) Sharon, 58, AR, white, Republican, Doordash Grandma "The economy's so bad, lobbying against my interests is the only gig I can get." (panel 6 - Bret Stephens) Bret, 52, NY, white, neoconservative, Opinion Section Diversity Hire "I like the wars, the policies, the cruelty, and the chaos, but people are rude to me when I say that."
Duke Phillips, the Ted Turner analog from the animated series The Critic accidentally swallows a bird.
Marc Andreessen's pointy head, isolated.
(panel 1 - Title in a NYTimes-ish style.) Doofus Group Ding-a-Lings express regrets
(panel 1 - Title on a note that's displayed on a computer screen.) Tech Bro Manifesto (panel 2 - Palantir CEO Alex Karp reading in front of a company backdrop.) backdrop, "Surveil Everything, Produce Nothing" Karp, "One day A.I. ..." (panel 3 - Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in front of a company backdrop.) backdrop, "Clod" Amodei, "... will be able to generate ..." (panel 4 - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in front of a company backdrop.) backdrop, "Perv" Zuckerberg, "... the world's most ..." (panel 5 - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in front of a company backdrop.) backdrop, "Suicide Assistant" Altman, "... punchable faces." (panel 6 - Elon Musk in front of a company backdrop.) backdrop, "X RACISM, NAZISM, and CSAMism, oh my!" Musk, "But until then, that's our job."
Joe Rogan in the Oval Office and Elon Musk on a boat. Their chests look weird, like Rob Liefeld drew them.
A screenshot of a LinkedIn job listing for XAI, which stands for "Apartheid Intelligence" I guess. actual text: Writing Specialist United States · 2 days ago · 58 applicants Promoted by hirer · No response insights available yet Remote Temporary Easy Apply Save
(panel 4 - A singer on a parody of the Grand Ol' Opry stage.) Grand Ole Party singer, "Please don't try redistrictin' my small town."
(panel 1 - title across the top of a tacky menu) 2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner Menu (panel 2 - The appetizer section) Access Journalist Appetizers (item A - Gregg Phillips holding a plate with a translucent waffle.) Teleported Waffles (item B - A dinner roll between two pats of butter.) Bothsides Buttered Rolls (panel 3 - The entree section) Elite Entrées (item C - A rotting USAID bag of food.) Naturally Fermented USAID (item D - RFK Jr. holding a gross bowl of soup.) Whale Chunks in Secret Sauce RFK Jr., "Your open mouth awaits my harvest!" (panel 4 - The dessert section) Dumbed-Down Desserts (item G - A parfait with a needle resting on it.) GLP-arfait (item F - A horrifying Friendly's Cone Head sundae.) Mar-A-Lago Face Sundae (panel 5 - The kids' menu) Don't-Bring-Your-Kids' Menu (item G - A redacted plate and child with Trump) REDACTED (item H - JD Vance in a pontiff's hat and holding a plate of pasta.) The JD Special Vance, "I'm da pope of pasghetti!"
(comic - Title on an emergency kit surrounded by the items it contains.) Congressional Crisis Kit (item 1 - A hand-cranked phone charger.) Phone Charger Be ready to ask any surviving constituents for donations (item 2 - Fallout Shelter Sign.) Fallout Bungalow Your next vacation might require blast-proof amenities (item 3 - An emergency blanket with Chuck Schumer on the package.) National Insecurity Blanket Instead of taking action, take comfort in institutions that have been broken for decades. (item 4 - A bottle of sleeping pills.) Sleeping Pills Help you do nothing until after midterm elections (item 5 - A Red Phone) Insider Trading Hotline In case of emergency: Profit (item 6 - A big "YES" button labeled, "CONFIRM FREAK.") Remote Collaborator Button Confirm Trump's nominees even while the world ends. (item 7 - A boxing dummy dressed like Trump.) Impeachment Dummy Keep at it until it happens.
A still from the 1992 movie Lawnmower Man. It's bad CGI of a screaming computer circuit man with sparks or some shit radiating off of him.
An animated boy from the Clutch Cargo cartoon is talking with a real human mouth superimposed over his face so it looks weird and off-putting.
(panel 1 - Title on an Exit sign with a person fleeing Iran.) Exit Strategies (panel 2 - Trump fumbling with an open can of Spaghetti-Os) Open the Strategic Uh-Oh Spaghetti-Os! Reserve (panel 3 - An apology written in skywriting by a crashing F-35.) Airborne Apology skywriting, "Oops, we didn't think this throuuuu..." (panel 4 - A golf caddy carrying a golf bag with a goalpost sticking out of it.) Make a caddy move the goalposts while no one's looking (panel 5 - Pete Hegseth strutting away from a mushroom cloud.) Strategic Retreat, but in slo-mo that you think looks cool (panel 6 - A hand stamping a file.) Declare "War Bankruptcy" and make someone else bail you out stamp, "Bankrupt War"
I'm making a silly face while holding a pizza box open.
A partially inked comic. panel 1: an exit sign with a person fleeing Iran panel 2: Trump in the Oval office looking like a slob. The other panels are faint illegible uninked pencil layers.
(panel 1 - Title on a retro aviation poster) ICE's Airport Agents (panel 2 - ICE agent handling luggage roughly like a gorilla.) Luggage Abuser (panel 3 - A child in ICE gear with a lanyard around its neck.) Unaccompanied Goon sign, "Unaccompanied Goon" (panel 4 - A full-body x-ray of an ICE agent.) Divorced Skeleton (panel 5 - An ICE dog wearing a tactical vest.) Melanin-Sniffing Dog vest, "KKK-9" (panel 6 - An ICE agent asleep on a bench.) Duty-Free Federal Employee
A crowd covering Boston Common viewed from the hill overlooking the main stage.
(panel 1 - Title written on a board game playing surface.) Bored of Peace Games (panel 2 - A parody of Chutes & Ladders) Straits & Tankers No allies required No planning necessary (panel 3 - A parody of Sorry!) Not Sorry! Not My Fault! And I'll Do It Again! (panel 4 - A parody of Memory featuring identical cards with a rabbit) Dementia Best Played Before Sundowning The classic card game of demented presidents (panel 5 - A parody of Ants in the Pants with turds in it.) Craps in the Pants An Oval Office Mess (panel 6 - Marco Rubio as Mr. Potatohead in oversized accessories.) Secretary Rubio Head Dress him up or dress him down!
Enshittified Start-Ups (panel 1 - A food delivery robot with a spring-loaded middle-finger on its roof.)
Dana Carvey as George H.W. Bush puking at a table onto a centerpiece.
(panel 1 - Title on a gasoline pump screen with a Trump pointing sticker.) Stickers Shock sticker, "I did THAT! (And war crimes)" (panel 2 - Dino the Sinclair Oil mascot in S&M gear.) Dino, "I got a kink ... to go mass extinct!" (panel 3 - A devil juggling labeled skulls.) Rumsfeld, Cheney, and McCain Devil, "Miss them Yet?" (panel 4 - A brain soaking itself in gasoline.) Car-Brained Pump Chump brain, "I'm scared of the bus!" (panel 5 - RFK Jr. in Fred Flintstone's car with a rack of ribs.) My other car's PROTEIN POWERED! (panel 6 - Text in a "check engine" icon.) ABOLISH ICE! (And Internal Combustion Engines)
Pinhead from the Puppet Master movies. He's a puppet with a tiny pointed head and huge hands.
(panel 3 - Pete Hegseth wearing a beer helmet.) Booze Helmet Hegseth, "The fog of war needs a little hair of the dog."
An old Fisher-Price toy TV that scrolls an illustration of kids and boats and the lyrics to "Row, Row, Row Your Boat..." when a knob is turned.
(panel 1 - Signs in a store window.) Dumb War Weapons For Sale: Consent, never manufactured (panel 2 - Trump hugging a bomb in a bikini.) Perv Bomb Trump, "It's the only kind I won't drop!" (panel 3 - Pete Hegseth wearing a beer helmet.) Booze Helmet Hegseth, "The fog of war needs a little hair of the dog." (panel 4 - A desperate guy on his phone falling with an unopened parachute.) Airdropped Gambling Addicts guy, "I'm betting 5 bucks that we can rebuild their devastated prediction markets!" (panel 5 - An I.O.U. folded into a paper airplane.) Ballistic I.O.U.s IOU, "Raytheon, send more missiles. We'll cut Social Security later. Love, GOP." (panel 6 - Sam Altman next to a server wearing a helmet.) General ChatGPT Altman, "Forget the chain of command, and enlist my digital Yes-Man." server, "Bomb School, Bomb Hospital, Start WWIII"
E.T. has too much shit on him. Hat, wig, scarf (or is it a stole?), bracelets, and a dress.
P.S. Gourmet's storefront in Roslindale Square. To the left of a sign with the store's name is another that says, "HOME of the BUCKET."
(panel 6 - Trump's wrist adorned with hospital warning bracelets.) Fall Risk, WWIII Risk, Grope Risk, DO NOT NORMALIZE
(panel 1 - Title around Kash Patel looking through a magnifying glass.) Kash Patel: Man-child Detective (panel 2 - Patel in a private jet.) Patel, "In order to understand the mindset of white collar criminals, I must live like one 24/7." (panel 3 - Patel chugging a beer while wearing a gold medal and Team USA's hockey jersey.) Patel, "There's GOT to be a CLUE at the bottom of one of these bottles!" (panel 4 - Patel taking a selfie at O.J. Simpson's grave.) Patel, "I'm on another taxpayer-funded trip to consult an expert on 'Finding the real killer.'" The Juice 1947-2024 (panel 5 - Patel handing a certificate to the Hamburglar.) Patel, "My boss has issued a blanket pardon for hamburger crimes." (panel 6 - Patel reading a children's book with a flashlight.) Patel, "I'll get to the EPSTEIN FILES as soon as I crack THIS case!" book, "From the Mixed-Up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler"
In Roslindale on Corinth Street: A red knitted sleeve around a light post with a white stitched heart and a note that reads, "Someone was taken by ICE here on 2/5/2026"
1984 puffy sticker featuring the Hamburglar playing hockey.
(panel 1 - Title on an FCC branded TV Guide, with Brendan Carr.) FCC Guide "Brendan Carr: Tells You What to Watch." Carr, "And I tell them what to air." (panel 2 - Eric Trump and Don Jr. hosting a telethon.) Eric and Don's Crypto Scamathon Eric, "Send us what's left of your life savings- Don Jr., "Before our Dad wipes it out!" (panel 3 - A billionaire at a Jeopardy! lectern.) Billionaire Jeopardy! Thiel, "I'm too rich to know anything!" lectern, "-$1,000,000." (panel 4 - A singer on a parody of the Grand Ol' Opry stage.) Grand Ole Party singer, "Please don't try redistrictin' my small town." (panel 5 - A cowboy in front of a corporate organizational chart.) Taylor Sheridan's Cowboy Equity cowboy, "Yeehaw! We're gonna gut this company like a pig." (panel 6 - A man with a toolbelt in front of a warehouse/detention center.) This New Concentration Camp man, "The constitutional foundations of this building are unsound."
Cybertruck stuck on my TV!