Here are some of my favorite cartoons about the ongoing protests. We see a big divide in the news coverage between Fox News and conservative media vs the rest of the media; we see the same divide with the conservative cartoonists drawing about law and order, and the rest of the cartoonists drawing about racial justice.
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I updated this cartoon from Ferguson five years ago. Things don’t change much.
Daryl Cagle
For a contrast, here are a couple from our conservative cartoonists.
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Sandy was my hero in the 1970’s when I was in high school, and he was a big influence on me. The 1970’s were the glory days for cartoon illustrators and I rushed off to Manhattan in 1977, hoping to have a career drawing cartoons for the big magazines like my idol, Sandy. I loved reading Time magazine as a teenager because Sandy was in almost every issue, with delightful, colorful illustrations; in fact, Sandy was in all the major magazines in the 1970’s. Sandy’s work was everywhere!
My little syndicate was brand new and we talked about our love for political cartoons. I learned that Sandy had been a newspaper editorial cartoonist for a short time early in his career. He enjoyed his days drawing political cartoons and missed having a voice in the media. I said to my idol, “Come draw for me! I just started a little syndicate!” and to my surprize, with his distinctive Southern charm, Sandy said, “OK.”
Sandy’s cartoons pulled no punches. We often got flooded with angry emails from readers and editors who Sandy offended. In 2003, one of Sandy’s cartoons depicted an Iraqi holding a book titled “The Koran for Dummies” that generated nearly ten thousand angry emails and death threats (more than any other cartoon we’ve distributed). More often Sandy elicited tyrades from conservatives. Sandy was our most controversial cartoonist, and our most liberal cartoonist.
