JD Crowe: Drawing 2022 into the transfer portal
There’s always plenty to draw in this state’s target-rich environment. And 2022 didn’t skimp on the gravy. Neither did our crack team of award-winning columnists and reporters. Take your time and scroll thru this gallery of toons that tell the twisted stories of whatever-it-was we just witnessed.
Below is a partial list of this past year’s fruitful AL.com stories that kept this Alabama cartoonist-a-doodling. I’m proud to be associated with this team of pot-stirring wordsmiths and journalists. And I’m grateful to work for this company that turns us loose to do whatever it is we do, the best way we know how, every day, come hell, high water and divine intervention.
The not-so-secret ingredient in all this is y’all. We’re blessed with passionate readers who care. Call us out when you want, slap us on the back when you feel the spirit. It’s all good.
Read on. Rock on. Don’t skimp on the gravy.
2022 in review: What were Alabama’s biggest political stories? – al.com
Brookside Police busted by John Archibald
Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’ – al.com
Policing for profit: The pirate-infested town of Brookside – al.com
Reckoning of the Pirates of Brookside: Release the Kraken! – al.com
Welcome to Speed Trap, Alabama: Where small towns turn into ‘little monsters’ – al.com
State of Denial: Kyle Whitmire’s deep dive series reveals why Alabama is the way it is
Red states are crazy about the voter suppression MyPillow – al.com
Civil rights insight by Roy S. Johnson
Alabama civil rights speaker says she was snubbed by Florida school over CRT fears – al.com
Fear of Black History Month? Blame Gov. Ivey, Republican lawmakers
I wish Tuberville, Britt knew what crime, woke are; and what they’re not – al.com
Critical race theory: The GOP’s crutch and weapon – al.com
Kay Ivey and Alabama lawmakers: ‘Let them eat Black History Month cake’ – al.com
Tommy TuberBulls#!tville
Alabama leader reactions to Tuberville: ‘The bull**** is that this guy is a U.S. Senator’
Tommy Tuberville gives bull excrement a bad name – al.com
Archibald, Whitmire and Johnson newsletters
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Mo, Mo, Mo? No
Mo Brooks: Trump’s ‘Coup Klutz Clown’ of January 6 Capitol attack – al.com
Mo Brooks receives disturbing phone call about his Trump endorsement – al.com
Mo ‘Smoking Gun’ Brooks: Trump’s disloyalty may come back to bite him – al.com
Trump’s Alabama endorsement curse: Who’s the next loser? – al.com
Kay Ivey and Katie Britt win
Katie Britt’s awkward, stinky last-second Trump endorsement – al.com
‘New blood’ Katie Britt wins: No mo’ Mo Brooks – al.com
Poor Kay Ivey. She thinks Joe Biden is running for governor of Alabama – al.com
Alabama Goobernatorial primary election straw poll: Pick a goober – al.com
‘High-stepper’ Kay Ivey has gone off the deep end – al.com
MAGA SCOTUS
SCOTUS is OK with Alabama’s crime scene voting map – al.com
Roe v. Wade leak exposes Trump-tainted Supreme Court – al.com
Trumper Supreme Court drags women into the MAGA cave – al.com
Ketanji Brown Jackson takes her place in the Supreme Court MAGA cave – al.com
Gun violence
Mass shooting on the Fourth of July: What could be more American? – al.com
Uvalde school shooting video inspired Uvalde Police Department’s new logo – al.com
Birmingham gun violence: How do we stop the bleeding? – al.com
Texas school shooting: Gunning down schoolchildren is ‘bearable’ in America – al.com
Violent gun culture is our cross to bear – al.com
Alabama executions
Alabama prisons say reporter’s skirt too short to witness execution – al.com
Witnessing an Alabama execution? Wear a strong set of underwear, ladies – al.com
Dead man talking: ‘I survived Alabama execution attempt’ – al.com
Alabama Football
Nick Saban preaches ‘parity’ while enjoying the ‘parody’ – al.com
Paul Finebaum on Jimbo Fisher’s Nick Saban daddy issues: ‘We need to talk’ – al.com
Nick Saban laundry day needed after penalty-ridden Tennessee loss – al.com
‘I don’t know who Nick Saban is anymore’ – Nick Saban
Auburn Football
How Bruce Pearl can solve Auburn’s Bryan Harsin problem – al.com
Bryan Harsin watch: War Eagle? Auburn’s battle cry should be ‘War Buzzard’ – al.com
Cadillac Williams is pure Auburn energy. Hire the man, jump in the car and ride – al.com
Auburn traded Cadillac for a creepy white van – al.com
Richard ‘Santa Claus’ Shelby enters transfer portal
When Richard Shelby retires, who’s gonna bring home the bacon? – al.com
Richard Shelby’s Farewell Tour: ‘On Golden Pork’ – al.com
Richard Shelby: Alabama’s Santa Claus senator enters the transfer portal – al.com
Ukraine
Russia invades Ukraine: Bloodthirsty Putin reveals his true colors and so does Trump – al.com
Roll Ukraine Roll: Alabama-made Javelin missiles flying, Russian tanks frying – al.com
Stand and pump for Ukraine: The price of gas is the price of freedom – al.com
All America wants for Christmas is peace for Ukraine. Right?
January 6 Committee wraps Trump up like a Christmas present to DOJ
Trump Presidential Library: Gold toilet clogged with shame – al.com
Trump tried to hang Mike Pence and Uncle Sam on January 6 – al.com
Cassidy Hutchinson’s first-hand testimony rocks January 6 hearings – al.com
Pick your January 6 Trump poison: Treason, tampering or manslaughter? – al.com
Trump crime family: Tax fraud is tip of the corruption iceberg
More true stories and stuff by JD Crowe:
The mysterious ‘Bubble Guy’ of Fairhope and the art of bubble Zen – al.com
Robert Plant head-butted me. Thanks, David Coverdale
I was ZZ Top’s drummer for a night and got kidnapped by groupie
Veterans have no greater friend on earth than this Alabama dentist
Dr. Barry Booth works to honor veterans in Alabama and beyond
Check out more cartoons and stuff by JD Crowe
JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group and AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix.