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Free Musa Kart

Political cartoonist Musa Kart is in jail again in Turkey, for another year, for doing his job. I have written about this before.

Some cartoonists answered a recent call from Cartooning for Peace to submit more drawings in support of Musa. Go to #freemusakart or try this link see these drawings on Twitter.

Many of the cartoons include cats because of Musa’ famous cartoon of Turkey’s despot, Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a cat that first drew Erdogan’s ire and landed Musa in prison. That my own cartoon contribution at the right.

My buddy Pedro Molina did a very nice recap of Musa’s story in comic form – see it below. Pedro recently escaped from persecution by Daniel Ortega’s thugs in Nicaragua and is living at an undisclosed location outside of the country.


Want to help Musa? Write a letter to the two diplomats at the addresses below.

Jeffrey M. Hovenier, Charges d’Affaires
Embassy of the USA to Turkey
110 Atatürk Blvd.
Kavaklıdere, 06100 Ankara
Turkey

H.E. Serdar Kılıç,
Embassy of the Republic of Turkey to the United States of America
2525 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008


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TRUE Stupid Stuff 2!

Here’s another new batch of my old TRUE cartoons from the 1990’s – at least the ones that look like they could still be true. This is from a batch about government.

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TRUE SEX 3!

Yet another new collection of my old TRUE cartoons, about sex! This is TRUE SEX part 3. I’m updating and entering these into our PolticalCartoons.com store as go through these oldies. I’ll have a few more batches before I run out of evergreens.

 

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New Suit for Manafort

Paul Manafort has lots of fancy, $15,000 suits from the House of Bijan, which seems to be the most expensive men’s clothing store around. Customers shop at this store by appointment only, but I suspect that Manafort had the fancy tailor come to him. Manafort paid clothing bills of hundreds of thousands of dollars by bank wire transfers, from his secret bank accounts on the island of Cyprus. These bank accounts were so secret that Manafort claims to have known nothing about them – at least that’s what he claims to the IRS, not to his tailor.

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TRUE Kids!

Here’s another batch of TRUE cartoons about KIDS!

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TRUE! Marriage!

Here’s a batch of cartoons about marriage from my 1995 syndicate comic strip, TRUE!

These are all depicting real, honest-to-goodness facts. I have a lot of these and I’m entering the evergreens into our huge cartoon database at PoliticalCartoons.com. More to come.

 

 

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Cosby & Justice

It looks like Justice finally connected with Bill Cosby. Here’s my cartoon:

We have a great collection of Bill Cosby conviction cartoons at: https://www.cagle.com/news/bill-cosby/

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Starbucks! Scram!

Here’s my Starbucks cartoon from last week. Starbucks has been in the news as a an store in Philadelphia called police to expel two black people who were sitting in the restaurant waiting to meet a friend without buying anything. The incident was viewed as racist because white customers likely would not suffer a day in jail for the same “offense.” Starbucks is closing their stores for a day of race sensitivity training in the USA, but there is no training in stores outside of the USA where, presumably, Starbucks thinks no such training is needed.

My cartoon is nothing great, but it gave me the opportunity to draw the Starbucks logo mermaid mascot, which is a grotesque monster that would frighten away anyone who saw such a thing, and that idea makes me laugh.

 

Here’s an angry letter I got from a reader who was offended by my cartoon which she saw in the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper:

Dear Daryle, 

The cartoon in today’s Inquirer was disgusting and inappropriate. Starbucks is going to rectify the situation of the two men that were arrested in Philadelphia. Because one person, in this case a manager, had poor judgment and was fired for her actions, should not be reflected on the company as a whole. This was an isolated case, although the company’s CEO is educating the entire company on tolerance.

Starbucks employees, runs as “partners,” having the opportunity to be something more than an employee they encourage them to grow as a person, in their career and in the community.  Starbucks wants their partners to become their personal best and to be connected to something bigger.

Are you aware Starbucks encourages it’s partners an opportunity for all benefits to eligible U.S. partners, to complete a bachelor’s degree with full-tuition coverage for every year of college through Arizona State University’s top-ranked degree programs, delivered online. In addition, to show their gratitude for the partners who are military service members and veterans, they may extend this benefit to their spouse or child.

Partners also appreciate recognition programs, career sabbaticals and other time-off programs. Plus, they can take advantage of partner perks such as in-store and online discounts.

At Starbucks, they strive to create a culture that values and respects diversity and inclusion. Their goal is to build a diverse workforce and increase competency. Their welcoming work environment encourages partners to engage with one another and make Starbucks a place where they look forward to work.

All for 20 hours a week. Can you tell me of another company that offers this?

Although we are not persons of color, we have had many business meeting, social meetings and have patronized many Starbucks around the country and outside the US, and have never witnessed anything but courtesy and helpfulness.

Their employees (partners) could not be more helpful. I recommend reading “How Starbucks Saved my Life” by Michael Gates Gill.  Also, see the article in the National Review “People are losing their mind over Starbucks” by Kyle Smith, April 18th. The comic in the “Opinion” section was disgraceful and if anything, racist.

Name WIthheld
New Jersey

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Inmate Netanyahu

With all the news happening, international stories that would normally get some attention are buried. I even forgot to post this cartoon that I drew more than a week ago.

Israel’s president is facing a big bribery scandal that could send him to jail. It is interesting how little ink this story is getting.

I first drew this with Netanyahu wearing the cartoon classic striped prison suit, without thinking. Here’s some advice for cartoonists: don’t draw Israelis in prison garb that looks like concentration camp suits, even though orange prison suits don’t convert well to black and white.  Sometimes cartoon clichés are best ignored.

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If Elizabeth Warren is President

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