Idea: Comics for Congress

The idea is a weekly webcomic that explains some element of a bill that’s currently passing through congress.

Comics are a low-friction way to learn about stuff with which you are totally unfamiliar. A one-page weekly webcomic that teaches you something and is funny is the kind of thing I would subscribe to.

It could be done in the style of  The Cartoon Guide to Statistics and similar books. And it would cover current events in a way that also teaches you about a general principle. For example, you could explain a rifle-shot provision in one particular bill, and readers would learn what rifle-shot provisions are in general.

(Rifle-shot provisions are clauses designed to apply to a single individual/organization without naming names. So they say, for example, this law applies to all hospitals incorporated on February 3rd, 1983.)

Any interested cartoonists want to open a kickstarter project?