The Manifesto
Strip-searching the wolves in charge.
Waking up the sheep in the herd.
We don't just pick on the figures at the podium. Every issue draws both sides of the farm.
Both sides of the farm
The name comes from the sheep in George Orwell's Animal Farm — the animal that never learns, just bleats whatever it's told. But a satire that only mocks the powerful misses half the story. The slogans don't work by themselves. Someone has to believe them.
So we draw the whole machine: the ones writing the script, and the ones chanting it back.
Format
The Panel Above
A stylized political figure at a podium, sweating under a spotlight, delivering a line that's blatantly off. This is the wolves — the people in charge writing the week's slogan. We caricature the rhetoric, not the person. The point is the script.
Format
The Panel Below
Instantly, a crowd of perfectly identical, blank-faced sheep repeating it, painting it on banners, turning it into a black-and-white comic sound effect — "FOUR LEGS GOOD!" This is the sheeple. Not a punchline to be laughed at, but a mirror held up to all of us: when's the last time we repeated a slogan we never actually examined?
Tip Line
Got a slogan we should be chasing?
If a line got repeated so often it stopped making sense, send it our way. That's raw material for the next issue.