A comic about how we got to where we are today… Down below, I put all the references I used for each panel and a couple I didn’t end up using.

You can download a PDF here for printing/sharing however you want: Sousanis No Lines Small

Update: thanks to my Brazilian publisher Rogério de Campos, the comic has now been translated into Portuguese! Download the PDF of that here or view on Veneta’s website here.

I also decided to paste my alt-text down below if you want it…

Courage to all,

Nick

No Lines comic 2025

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  • Paper towels 2017 October
  • Shithole countries 2018
    • 11, 2018, 2:19 PM PST / Updated Jan. 12, 2018, 4:47 AM PST
    • By Ali Vitali, Kasie Hunt and Frank Thorp V
    • WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries” during a meeting with a bipartisan group of senators at the White House, a Democratic aide briefed on Thursday’s meeting told NBC News.
    • BY  ALAN FRAM AND JONATHAN LEMIRE
    • Published 9:09 PM PST, January 11, 2018
    • WASHINGTON (AP) — In bluntly vulgar language, President Donald Trump questioned Thursday why the U.S. would accept more immigrants from Haiti and “shithole countries” in Africa rather than places like Norway, as he rejected a bipartisan immigration deal, according to people briefed on the extraordinary Oval Office conversation.
    • “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” the president of the United States reportedly saidduring a meeting with lawmakers over a potential immigration deal, referring to people from Haiti and African countries. Instead, he complained, the US should be accepting people from places such as Norway.
  • December 2019 the call with Ukraine was perfect, with “no pressure.
    • The first impeachment trial stemmed from a call President Trump had with the President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine in which President Trump asked the Ukrainian President to announce two investigations: one involving his potential opponent in the upcoming 2020 presidential election and a second into unsubstantiated allegations that entities within Ukraine had interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
    • “the President pressured Mr. Zelenskyy to … initiate or continue an investigation into the activities of former Vice President Joseph Biden and his son, Hunter Biden,”
    • “I would like you to do us a favor, though”

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FINAL Row:

 

draw the line trump alt text

A comics page in black and white. Arranged in 5 tiers of panels, each with successively smaller panels and more per row – with the exception of the first. Opens with no panel border – silhouette of a hand in a gun position – with smoke coming from index finger. speech balloon “i could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn’t lose any voters, ok?” Caption “this is perhaps the most truthful thing trump has ever said…” Same row – more than half page width panel with three drawings of trump making jerky body distortions mocking cerebral palsy. Caption “one might’ve assumed when he mocked reporter serge kovaleski that it would cross a line and be the end of him in public life.” Speech balloon “now the poor guy, you ought to see this guy!” Caption “that was naive.” Next row, first panel, slightly more than page width – closeup on trump’s open mouth, shouting “when you’re a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. Grab ‘em by the pussy. you can do anything.” Caption “surely, there’d be no coming back from this?” Second panel – silhouettes of tiki torch carrying rioters with their shirt collars showing. Caption “or this?” Dialogue “you also had some very fine people on both sides.” Caption “and yet…” Third row – three panels, first slightly more than a third, rest smaller still. Silhouette of trump throwing a paper towel roll like shooting a basketball. Dialogue “a great day…” Caption “c’mon…”. Second panel closeup on his lips, dialogue “why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Caption “really?” Third panel closeup on a coiled-style phone cord, dialogue “i would like you to do us a favor, though.” In background words from the first articles of impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors. Dialogue “the call with ukraine was perfect, with “no pressure.” Caption “this must be the last straw?” Fourth row, four panels, first slightly bigger than a quarter width, then each slightly smaller. Silhouette of trump holding up a bible in front of a church. Caption “and on,”. Second panel silhouette of trump at podium, behind him wreath that is symbol for the proud boys. Dialogue “stand back and stand by…” Caption “and on,”. Third panel – drawing of the qanon shamon in his headgear shouting. Dialogue as if in text balloon “be there, will be wild!” Background, more dialogue in white on black ballooons “if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore. We won this election and we won it by a landslide.” Caption “and on…” this segues into fourth panel – gallows with noose and capital behind it. Big text “article I: Incitement of Insurrection”. Text over image “Trump repeatedly issued false statements asserting that the Presidential election results were the product of widespread fraud and should not be accepted by the American people”
Fifth/final row. Each panel is smaller and smaller till the panels become slivers, almost a line. First panel, no image, just redrawn newspaper headlines – including trump’s ad against the “central park 5” and the two verdicts against him for sexual abuse and defamation.” Caption over this “but it’s not about him. as Maya Angelou said, “When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.”” Next panel view of his bathroom with claissified documents in it and newspaper caption about indictment for that. Caption over this and next panels “which means if you’re still on board, it’s you.” Next bunch of panels break up a drawing of trump closeup from his mugshot. Headlines from his civil and criminal convictions overlay this. More quotes near the end of the series of panels, including “the water? you want me to go swimming?” “black jobs” “they’re eating the dogs… they are eating the cats.” “china virus” “scum” Caption comes off of these panels into empty space “you have no line that’s too far.” Bit of a gap and then a small box all black with caption on it “that is until you end up on the other side of it…” Below that another small box with the title “draw the line” and my name march 2025.  @nsousanis.bsky.social spinweaveandcut.com