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Five panel comic titled "Milestones (Don't Let Them Psych You Out)" — above, a timeline begins, starting with "U.S. declared independent July 4, 1776."
Panel 1: America at 1. July 4, 1777. John Hancock, 2nd President of the Second Continental Congress, "Now to make a government out of it."
Panel 2: America at 10. July 4, 1786. Nathaniel Gorham, 8th President of the Confederation Congress. "That government didn't work, but we're working on a new one."
Panel 3: America at 100. July 4, 1876. Ulysses S. Grant,18th President of the United States of America. "That government split in half. We're trying to reconstruct it back together."
Panel 4: America at 1000. July 4, 2776. G.O.R.G. Washing-tron, 5th Grand Executive of the United Signatories of America. "I AM GOVERNMENT. BOW TO WASHING-TRON."
Panel 5: America at 10000. July 4, 11776. Star-spangled empty space.

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Milestones

Posted on March 2, 2026 by twopartyopera

Comic 1000! Yowza! Can't get psyched out by the milestone.

On Friday, I premiered an 8-minute animated Two Party Opera proof of concept — it's currently on my Patreon for all to enjoy for free!

Tribute to Jimmy Carter

Posted on February 19, 2023 by twopartyopera

New Carter design hasn’t appeared in the comic yet, but I think the likeness is much better

Sobering news this week from the Carter Center: “After a series of short hospital stays, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention. He has the full support of his family and his medical team. The Carter family asks for privacy during this time and is grateful for the concern shown by his many admirers.”

If you’d like to honor the former president, the Carter Center is asking for public messages of support: https://cartercenter.kudoboard.com/boards/wellwishes

Two Party Opera is all about presidents, so in honor of the 39th, who even into his 90s seemed determined to build houses for every person on the planet, here are a few of my favorite 2PO comics featuring the great humanitarian and American, Jimmy Carter:

Panel 1:
Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan are in front of the White House. A FEMA helicopter hovers in the background.
Carter: "You don't find it strange that every year we have a new hurricane that's the biggest we've ever seen?"
Reagan: "We'll be ready! Especially after our 'unsung success' last year with Hurricane Maria."

Panel 2:
Carter: "Unsung success? 3000 Puerto Ricans died! It was a disaster!"
Reagan: "Carter, how many people died fighting the British during the revolutionary war? How many died fighting Japan in WWII? those were both islands and you don't hear many people calling those disasters."

Panel 3:
Carter: "We didn't fight a war against Puerto Rico, we just made it look like we did."
Reagan: "Check my math on this, but based on my Reaganomics, the Hurricane Maria relief effort was 1000-times more successful than Vietnam." — Unsung Success

Panel 1:
Jimmy Carter is building houses on the White House lawn when a masked Ronald Reagan approaches, keeping a safe distance.
Reagan: "Still building houses, Carter?"
Carter: "May 1st is in a few days and millions of renters have spent the last month in forced unemployment."

Panel 2:
Carter: "We already have a historic homelessness crisis, and now, full hotels go empty. If those two things can't connect, then we're going to be in real trouble when the evictions start rolling in. So I'm building housing."
Reagan: "Relax. Lots of states and cities now have eviction bans."

Panel 3:
Carter: "With no enforcement mechanism. What happens when landlords ignore the bans and do it anyway?"
Reagan: "Renters will be fine. The eviction would never hold up in a court."

Panel 4:
Carter: "You think they can afford a lawyer?"
Reagan: "Why not? What with all the money they're saving not paying rent!" — Housin’ Around

Panel 1:
Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter are talking in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
Reagan: "Just think, decades from now, you'll be able to tell your great grandchildren where you were on this great day for civil rights."
Carter: "Those don't usually begin with people getting beat up and dragged off planes."

Panel 2:
Reagan: "Those poor corporate Americans. People have ignored their terms of services for too long!"
Carter: "Companies. They're called companies."

Panel 3:
Reagan: "So beautiful. The conflict. The citizen journalism. The vanquished foe! It even had a classic civil rights motif; someone being asked to give up their seat. Rosa Parks would be very proud."

Panel 4:
Carter: "You do know that Rosa Parks was not a corporation."
Reagan: "We all have our flaws." — Corporate Americans

The Reaganomics of Disaster Relief

Thank you for your service, President Carter.

George Washington	John Adams	Thomas Jefferson	James Madison
James Monroe	John Quincy Adams	Andrew Jackson	Martin Van Buren
William Henry Harrison	John Tyler	James K. Polk	Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore	Franklin Pierce	James Buchanan	Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson	Ulysses S. Grant	Rutherford B. Hayes	James Garfield
Chester A. Arthur	Grover Cleveland 1	Benjamin Harrison	Grover Cleveland 2
William Mckinley	Theodore Roosevelt	William H. Taft	Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding	Calvin Coolidge	Herbert Hoover	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman	Dwight D. Eisenhower	John F. Kennedy	Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon	Gerald Ford	Jimmy Carter	Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush	Bill Clinton	George W. Bush	Barack Obama
Donald Trump	Joe Biden	Donald Trump

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