Stealing a page from the Tacoma mayoral campaign of runner-up candidate Jim Merritt, local cartoonist R.R. Anderson has crafted his own Venn diagram for stating his positions on local issues.

As I noted in this recent post, both Merritt and Anderson are among several Tacoma residents who now have Facebook pages campaigning for the appointments to fill two coming vacancies on the Tacoma City Council. Although the appointment process still remains murky as I reported this week, the city has begun accepting applications for candidates seeking to fill the soon-to-be vacant seats of Council members Julie Anderson and Marilyn Strickland.

During his unsuccessful campaign for mayor, Merritt, an architect for more than 30 years, used the Venn diagram in campaign literature, business cards and mailers as a way to capture the essence of his platform and at the same time give a wink-and-nod to his own wonky draftsmanship.

Meanwhile, Anderson, whose Twitter bio describes himself as “UFO hunter, political cartoonist, inventor, and ideaman for hire,” riffed on the Merritt Venn to conceptualize his own platform.

(If you can’t see the details of these Venn thumbnails, find bigger versions of Merritt’s Venn here and Anderson’s Venn here.)