Cartoon Tuesday (Wednesday Edition): This American Lifestyle

Konrad

In the second panel (this is really good):

“We’ll have to adapt” immediately followed by “I’m not gonna change my lifestyle!”
JF

This cartoon isn’t very good: it doesn’t look anything like Lew Fidler.
Mark Walker

JF, it’s the hat.

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