MARGOT KEEN
CITY HALL
"All policy is local. Even the moon belongs to a county."
PANEL 01 — COVER
POLY TICS .CLUB
POLITICS, BUT POP!
A comic-strip newsroom for the loud, the graphic, the larger-than-life. Eight panels. One story. Turn the page.
PANEL 02 — THE PREMISE
POLITICS IS A COMIC.
Heroes, villains, plot twists, cliffhangers. We just draw it that way. Every story is a panel. Every panel is a fight for the page.
FACT
FICTION
FRICTION
!?
PANEL 03 — THE VOICES
SIX VOICES.
ONE PAGE.
DEV PATEL-ROSS
FOREIGN DESK
"Borders are punchlines drawn by people who've never crossed them."
NOA HERSHEY
THE COURTS
"A robe is a costume. The verdict is the script."
RIO VANCE
MONEY & POWER
"Follow the dollar; it leaves bigger footprints than the man."
SAM ALDERMAN
TECH POLICY
"Every algorithm is an opinion that learned to vote."
TANI OYELARAN
THE STREET
"The protest is the punctuation. The grammar is the policy."
PANEL 04 — CLIMAX
POW!
A NEW VERDICT, A NEW VICTORY, A NEW PANEL.
Big news lands here, hand-lettered, halftoned, and headlined. When the chamber roars, polytics.club draws it for you.
ZAP
BOOM
ZING
PANEL 05 — THE DEBATE
"TAX THE CLOUDS!"
Sky-rents are due. Compute farms eat watts. Pay the meter.
VS
"FREE THE CLOUDS!"
Innovation can't pay rent and breathe. Let the storms roam.
PANEL 06 — FIELD NOTES
FIELD
NOTES
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№01
THE QUIET COUP OF THE COMMITTEE ROOMS.
Where the cameras don't go, the bills get redrawn. We sat through 14 hours so you don't have to.
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№02
A MAYOR, A PROMISE, A FOLDED MAP.
The bus route was redrawn three times before any wheel turned. Trace the ink.
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№03
EVERY CAMPAIGN POSTER LIES TWICE.
Once with the smile. Once with the slogan. We index both, panel by panel.
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№04
THE SUBPOENA THAT NEVER CAME.
Filed, lost, refiled, leaked. A paperwork chase rendered as a six-page strip.
PANEL 07 — THE CLUB
JOIN
THE CLUB.
FREE TO READ. LOUDER WHEN YOU'RE IN.
Members get the weekly panel-pull, the back-room transcripts, and the marker pens to draw on the walls.
WELCOME TO THE CLUB! YOU'RE ON THE PANEL.
PANEL 08 — THE END (FOR NOW)
TO BE CONTINUED…
NEXT ISSUE: WHO OWNS THE WEATHER?
Drops every Friday at noon. Until then, keep the panels turning.