Untitled 146 (The Five-Year Plan)

Rendered in spare ink and blunt lettering, this cartoon distills political cynicism into a stark theatre of delay: a hulking figure’s promise is literally staged as deferred speech, while the anxious onlooker and the sensational “Daily Noose” headline turn governance into spectacle. The cramped interior and hard black shapes compress the space like a moral vise, making the white paper feel less like openness than an indictment—an emptiness where accountability should be. Humor here is sharpened into accusation: time becomes a convenient scapegoat, and “later” reads as a mechanism for laundering responsibility through the next body in power.