Barry Deutsch is an award-winning Portland-based cartoonist and a graduate of Portland State University. He creates Ampersand, which he characterizes as having “a generally progressive sensibility.” His work appears regularly in Dollars and Sense magazine, which is subtitled Real World Economics, and he’s currently working on a comic book featuring an eleven-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl as protagonist. Once you’ve studied the cartoon, imagine whether you might have interpreted it differently had you not known the cartoonist is a man. In other words, would you understand its message differently if you assumed a female cartoonist had drawn it?