Op-Comic: Welcome to the unhappiest place on Earth
![A family of four wear beanies that say MAGA and have spinny tops.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/c8b3f57/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2074x1500+0+0/resize/1200x868!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1f%2Ffc%2F4bc252de4e44b584bed49a7519c2%2Foe-unwoke-world-sutton-header.jpg)
(Ward Sutton / For The Times)
![Comic shows a pirate and a wench, a woman in headdress, a shirtless man holding shrunken heads, a Black man and a child.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/82dbf25/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2074x1500+0+0/resize/1200x868!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F45%2F1f%2Fe640f9b94609bb196ee4fce25265%2Foe-unwoke-world-sutton-1.jpg)
![Comic shows a woman and a girl in a car marked with the women symbol rolling past three creepy men spewing vulgarities.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f9fe7c5/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2074x1500+0+0/resize/1200x868!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F7f%2Fe5%2Ff5d915684c6aa31cf372cb1f01fb%2Foe-unwoke-world-sutton-2.jpg)
![Comic of man and boy on ride looking fearful as they see Colin Kaepernick kneel and Hillary Clinton's head in a crystal ball.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/c427bcc/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2074x1500+0+0/resize/1200x868!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F35%2F11%2F85b94259447a8902e8b1a3646d1a%2Foe-unwoke-world-sutton-3.jpg)
![Comic of ICE officers with guns pushing foreign kids toward U.S. border. Boat riders hold signs; one says "build the wall."](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d5a0894/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2074x1500+0+0/resize/1200x868!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F85%2F6a%2F388800a04af2a728f2a44d7bedc2%2Foe-unwoke-world-sutton-4.jpg)
![Comic of a family of four happily speeding down a mountain past signs. One says "looming climate disaster."](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/e23edfc/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2074x1500+0+0/resize/1200x868!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F61%2F28%2F98e2af464a509b2aefc23c7f2900%2Foe-unwoke-world-sutton-5.jpg)
![Comic of a rat, a duck and Marjorie Taylor Greene holding that include "vaccines kill." A family's eyes appear burned out.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/871be4a/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2074x1500+0+0/resize/1200x868!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F8e%2F9a%2F8fd2ac634a379c7c2735df7e934c%2Foe-unwoke-world-sutton-6.jpg)
(Ward Sutton / For The Times)
Ward Sutton’s cartoons have appeared in the New Yorker and the Boston Globe, among other publications. He won the 2018 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. @wardsutton
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