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Art has the power to entertain, inspire, and provoke thought—sometimes all at once. Few artists navigate this balance as effortlessly as Henry James Garrett. Combining charming illustrations with sharp, meaningful commentary, his work invites us to rethink how we see the world and the values we hold dear.

Once again, we’d like to share with you some new works from this artist. As some of you might remember, Henry uses animals and everyday objects to tackle themes like kindness, equality, LGBTQ+ identity, mental health, and social justice. His art is proof that even the simplest of drawings can spark meaningful conversations and leave a lasting impact.

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Tabitha
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11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If every single one of us did this, the world would be better by leaps and bounds.

Bobby McKee
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11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As someone with severe depression I thought it was telling me to kill myself.

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Andrew Keir
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11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do what you can With what you've got While you can

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    Steve Robert
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Parents, don't let your kids grow up to be racist. Because that's where they learn it from.

    Dread Pirate Roberts
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    💙 We should be more like dogs in this way 💙

    Just Cosmo
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It doesn't matter if we look different or think different about different things. Our differences make us who we are.

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    Andrew Keir
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All of life should be that. Make it so. Be the boldest , bravest person you know

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    Der Kommissar
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Several so called peaceful nations have large arms industries and are happy to sell them to other countries. Lookin' at you, Sweden.

    Seán Baron
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, 20th Century Sweden saying “We’re neutral!” makes history nerd me laugh my head off.

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    panther
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well after all if it wasn't me it would be someone else who wouldn't feel any remorse at all.

    XenoMurph
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That argument is so stupid. You could use that argument to murder your grandmother.

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    Steve Robert
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Somewhere there's an orange sexually perverted felon who believes otherwise.

    Andrew Keir
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe we can do our best to ignore him, live our lives and just get through the next few years as best we can. Think of it as 'resistance' - and stop following any story with him in the headlines, you're just being manipulated

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    Just Cosmo
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Social constructs matter. If we didn't have them, we wouldn't have an economy based on money. Or anything really. Laws are also social constructs, and they exist for a reason.

    Apatheist Account2
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    11 months ago

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    Sorry, but this is nonsense. There's a physical division between, for example, the Atlantic and Indian oceans, at the tip of South Africa.

    LakotaWolf (she/her)
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You know perfectly well that this cartoon is not referring to physical borders such as oceans or mountain ranges or canyons. You are being spurious and a boor.

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    Tabitha
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    With today’s political climate, the stench is palpable.

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    Steve Robert
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And horrible things happen when you let billionaires run the government.

    Andrew Keir
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Love that word "murmuration"

    Apatheist Account2
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Great inventions happen when we think as individuals.

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    Tabitha
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For this we should be ashamed.

    Eppe
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ever watch a documentary of lions or killer whales hunt? Or (trigger warning) search for the story about chimpansees Luit, Yeroen and Nikki by Frans the Waal.

    LakotaWolf (she/her)
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Animals, even social animals like lions, chimpanzees, and orcas, will kill other members of their species in disputes over territory, mates, food, etc. This does not mean that they are like humans who commit genocide.

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    LizzieBoredom
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wouldn't call Bambi naive. He went through some heavy sh*t.

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    Steve Robert
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I dropped a wrench in the machine, broke a cog and lost my job. Best advice ever!

    Kathy L
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    🏆 Best entry on the thread.

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    Steve Robert
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When a person's perspective is based on lies and misinformation, you don't have a leg to stand on in trying to convince them otherwise.

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    Tabitha
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    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have always thought the people who make the best soldiers are people of peace, who don’t allow themselves to be drawn into unnecessary violence—-let’s face it, in war there is violence, and sometimes you have to fight violence with violence, but the person of peace will only do the necessary to get the aggressor to stop, then they too will stop there instead of letting primitive bloodlust take them over completely.

    Andrew Keir
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Violence is self-perpetuating. You either oppose it with violence (implicitly agreeing with its use) or get trampled (subjecting to its use). Great spirits like Gandhi come along only each century or so

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    Kathy L
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If only humans were more like dogs.

    Steve Robert
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Police dog recruits are no different from police recruits.

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    Steve Robert
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tried that once. How the hell do girls wear high heels?

    Roe
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    high heels are awesome! And, I'm only 11, and the first time I tried them, I was walking like a model! LOL!

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    Andrew Keir
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ... but not while they're still wearing them

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    Steve Robert
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And religious hatred is behind all of these.

    XenoMurph
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Any ideology, Nazi, Communist, Maga, Christian, Zionist, Islamic, can be used to justify genocide by the zealots. People will blame everything on religion because that's what other people have said. But it's not always true, Zionism is often ethnic, not religious

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    Just Cosmo
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My oh my, a genocide that does not exist can't be seen unless you fill yourself with hate and lies.

    Apatheist Account2
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    As usual, it's all the west's fault, and the middle east and east are full of perfect societies. NOT.

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    Steve Robert
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And then the shark ate the fish.

    Bob Brooce
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, unlike people, fish are a sharks natural prey and it actually wants to eat them.

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    Andrew Keir
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's difficult to argue someone into stopping doing things they enjoy

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    Apatheist Account2
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    More antisemitism. Which side were the ones taking children as hostages?

    Eppe
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is one sided but not antisemitism.

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    panther
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And what would Hamas do if given the chance?

    Dread Pirate Roberts
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Exactly. They would murder as many Jews as they could and continue to oppress their own people as well.

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    Andrew Keir
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is it possible that both sides are acting badly? Yes. is it possible that either will be the first to act better? Because if not, we have war forever

    Dread Pirate Roberts
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    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hamas started the war, and they could've ended it any time by surrendering, giving up the hostages, and stop using their own people as human shields. Downvote me if you want. I've had enough of this Jew hatred b******t. People need to get their heads out of their asses.

    Sand Ers
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've had enough of aßholes equating rejecting Israel's genocidal conduct as "antisemitic", and freely interchanging "Palestinian" and "Hamas" to justify it. Murdering children is murdering children, and "they started it" doesn't excuse it. The children being murdered didn't start anything. And the vast majority of the population of Gaza wasn't even born when Hamas was "elected".

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    Andrew Keir
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ... and, unfortunately, you elephants have been targets for poachers for about that long

    Steve Robert
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When you put your military assets under schools....

    Dread Pirate Roberts
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep. Hamas is a bunch of cowards. These innocent Palestinian civilians are being killed because they're being used as meat shields by their extremist government. It's disgusting.

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    Apatheist Account2
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have no time for how Israel have behaved, but it's naïve, biased and ridiculous to think that the Palestinians are totally blameless in all this. Hamas attacked first this time round, if you recall. This is just antisemitic.

    Sand Ers
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Using "Palestinians" and "Hamas" as though they are interchangeable is the most overt sort of racism possible. Dismissing criticism of the genocidal right-wing regime which has gained control of Israel as "antisemitic" is intellectual bad faith.

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    Andrew Keir
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or might it be that they just want to exercise power, over someone?

    Forrest Hobbs
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah yes - preaching empathy and understanding for all, then hurling mindless abuse at a group of people who worry about the safety of women and just want to talk about it.

    Apatheist Account2
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    11 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pandering to a small minority - still well under 1% - is woke brain rot. Promoting the rights of women is not a bad thing. I will never believe in promoting a minority at the expense of a majority; accommodate them as far as possible, by all means, but just to wipe out the equality that women have gained over the past 50 years (and it's by no means complete) seems very wrong indeed. Who is saying that we have to be free of gender? What needs policing is men taking advantage by claiming to identify as women, then using it to perpetrate SA.

    LakotaWolf (she/her)
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Trans women ARE women. Protecting the rights of women INCLUDES protecting the rights of trans women, because they ARE women. Protecting trans women doesn't "wipe out" the equality of women.

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    Tabitha
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    TBH, until everyone does. There are more conflicts—-and genocides—-happening than the one in Israel. It’s just that the others aren’t getting as much press.

    Andrew Keir
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OK, so we won't stop fighting until everyone else does. That's sure to bring about a rapid peace, worldwide ... ( /s )

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    Tyranamar Suess
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They should have just labeled this pro Palestinian comics. I do not agree with what is happening to the Palestinians. But dude, I got your stance about 4 comics ago.

    Steve Robert
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    11 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's obvious that the artist has no clue to historical events. Maybe he should start with 1948, and learn what really happened.

    michael blacklock
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    It's obvious some people will twist their version of history to justify their hate filled war crimes. The world knows who is wrong and Jews in high places are enabling a worse crime than the holocaust. Shame on you child killers.

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