DarylCagle.comI’m having more and more fun drawing Mitt Romney. The grey temples, the perfect hair. Normally, good looking politicians are the worst to draw, and Romney looks like he belongs on “Mad Men”, but I have to admit he’s growing on me.
Here’s Romney at the tattoo parlour…
Obama makes sure that Romney gives us nightmares…
Romney and Obama have much the same style…
Political cartoonists often use established visual metaphors in order to help get their opinion across in their work. Greek urns have managed to survive thousands of years, so what better metaphor to use in order to describe the fiscal calamity Greece currently faces?
For the first time in U.S. history, more than half of the babies born in the country are nonwhite. The data also shows that almost half of all young children are from minority groups, which means the next generation of Americans will be far more diverse than today.
Cam Cardow of the Ottawa Citizen sees a trend developing among protesters…
While John Cole of the Scranton Times-Tribune sees a new “border war” developing…
Dave Granlund sees whites as just the latest mammal population to dwindle…
Meanwhile, according to David Fitzsimmons of the Arizona Daily Star, an Arizona legislator wants a state holiday for white people…
And Pat Bagley of the Salt Lake Tribune shows who the real minority is in the U.S. these days…
Will Greece remain in the Euro?
It’s a debate that’s flummoxing all of Europe at the moment. Leaders of the G8 industrialized nations agreed over the weekend that Greece should remain a member of the European Union, yet many, like Hungary’s finance minister, say openly that the only way forward is for Greece to leave the Euro.
[ Check out our collection of cartoons about the Crisis in Greece ]
Here’s my new cartoon about the craziness in Greece, featuring a Greek statue throwing a Euro coin at German Chancellor Angela Merkel…
Whenever anyone in the U.S. thinks of Greece, century-old temples and marble statues are often the first things that come to mind. Using these visual images makes it easier to express the dire situation Greece faces without getting into the weeds of numbers and details…
Of course, all the statues have to be armless. It’s like drawing a cheating politician in his underwear – white boxers with red hearts should always be revealed when their pants drop to the ground…
Coffee addicts rejoice! A new study shows the coffee, either caffeinated or decaffeinated, may actually help extend the lives of people who drink it. This is good news for cartoonists, since our great ideas are fueled by bottomless cups of joe!
Here are five funny coffee cartoon that are bound to make you chuckle…
Mike Peters is one of the all time greatest cartoonists – here he is giving the commencement address at his alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis. Watch Mike, he’s fun:
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