* my suggestion is stop apologizing, or at least never apologize for offense. Apologize for not advancing the national dialogue, if you must, but offense is your job. Also have a talk with whoever makes the decision to publish; they should be screening for cartoons that are light on content, heavy on potential rhetorical judo.
* not comics: there's a fine rumination in Gil Roth's latest Virtual Memories newsletter about how to use but not be used by social media. I hear this a lot from my friends aged 40-60, with no good answers.