From 2020 to 2021, I sketched one satirical news article per day as a creative copywriting exercise with one key distinction: no politics. I wanted to strip away the partisan tendencies that dominate the vast majority of similar outlets.
Actual fake news.
From 2020 to 2021, I sketched one satirical news article per day as a creative copywriting exercise with one key distinction: no politics. I wanted to strip away the partisan tendencies that dominate the vast majority of similar outlets.
Actual fake news.
Extra cheese.
It necessarily leans into dad-joke territory. But that’s OK, maybe even the point. I wanted to offer an antidote to the doom-scroll epidemic and avoid the low-hanging fruit of partisan rage bait.
Extra cheese.
It necessarily leaned into dad-joke territory. But that’s OK, maybe even the point. I wanted to offer an antidote to the doom-scroll epidemic and avoid the low-hanging fruit of partisan rage bait that felt particularly inescapable in 2020.
Not that fake.
However, I quickly learned that it’s getting harder to satirize the modern world. What might have been absurd just a few decades ago suddenly offered frightening plausibility across the world’s many shared stages.
A creative exercise.
This was purely a fun addition to my creative copywriting practice, even if some of the headlines aged a bit close for comfort. I wrote 365 articles, one for each day of the year. Here are some selections.
