“I had a conversation with John Diaz, editorial pages editor of the Chronicle, before an audience of the paper's subscribers. Makeda was in the first row.

He told them his favorite cartoon of mine was the very last one I'd drawn about gay marriage, just after the Supreme Court had legalized it. After years of increasingly complex cartoons, I'd created one last, simple, poignant image.

John asked me if it was discouraging as a Black cartoonist to see gay marriage resolved, but Black lives still didn't matter.

I smiled. I replied "It's not discouraging... it's foreshadowing.”