Adam Zyglis / Buffalo News (click to view cartoon collection)
Talk about an explosion. It only took the planet about 12 years to add a billion new people, as the United Nations declared on Monday that the world’s population officially surpassed 7 billion.
India is creating people at a rate of nearly one per second, so it seems likely the 7 billionth baby will be born there. They are also expected to overtake China as the world’s most populous country by 2030.
Check out what cartoonists think about the world’s growing population with our 7 Billion People cartoon collection.
Happy Halloween! The Northeast is expected to get hit today with a classic nor’easter, which is expected to dump anywhere from a dusting of snow to about 10 inches throughout the area.
So if you live anywhere from Washington D.C. to Boston, warm up some hot coco and relax by enjoying these funny snow cartoons. For more, check out new October Snow cartoon slideshow. You’ll need the rest before shoveling, anyway.
Daryl Cagle / msnbc.com (view more of my cartoons)
John Cole / Scranton Times-Tribune (view more cartoons by Cole)
Rob Tornoe / PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Tornoe)
Bob Englehart / Hartford Courant (click to view more Englehart cartoons)
My daughter, cartoonist Susie Cagle, was teargassed on Tuesday and had to avoid rubber bullets fired by Oakland police attempting to prevent a peaceful march of Occupy Oakland protesters from walking to the police department. Susie shot the iPhone video above.
“As I crouched down to protect myself, a teargas canister rolled right under my face and exploded,” she told The Daily Crosshatch. She’s been spending time at Occupy Oakland as part of her graphic series of the movement, which she is funding through Spot.Us.
A sketch from Susie's Occupy Oakland graphic series.
She’s also decided to change the original scope of her series:
Yeah. It’s going to have to be totally different now. It was going to be a five-part piece about how different Occupy Oakland is from the rest of the occupation. When the camp was up, it was very different. They were primarily concerned with creating this functional mini-city, rather than doing focused protests and actions, which is very different than the other ones. They spent more time trying to figure out how to feed everyone and building a kids’ area, and a library and a community garden. That’s what they were spending their time on.
David Fitzsimmons / Arizona Daily Star (click to start slideshow)
Every Friday, we collect the best political cartoons of the week and stuff them into one big, glorious slideshow.
The big news this week was the fact we’re finally pulling our of Iraq, but the resurgence of the “flat tax” and crackdowns on Occupy Wall Street protesters also sprinkled into the news cycle. GOP Presidential hi-jinks are always welcome news to cartoonists as well.
Click to view our collection of Reynolds Halloween cartoons
My buddy, famed greeting card artist Dan Reynolds, has put together a collection of his hilarious Halloween cartoons for us to share. Dan’s cartoons are read by millions of readers across the U.S., Canada and points beyond all the way down under in Australia. His work is seen in every issue of Reader’s Digest (where he is known for his cow, pig and chicken cartoons), on greetings cards everywhere, and in his many book collections.
Dan is also a fantastic painter, and has set up a Web site (Danreynoldsart.blogspot.com) to showcase his wonderful pastel paintings.
Here’s what Dan said about painting:
“Painting is my way of relaxing after a hard day of cartooning. For me, cartooning is an exercise of the mind. Painting is an exercise of the heart. Painting, for me, is the next step in my evolution as a creative person. It gives me a different sense of accompishment. As a cartoonist, I feel like I’m eating candy all day long. Painting give me the sense that I’m eating my vegetables, too, and enriching my body and soul.”
Click to view more of Dan Reynolds fantastic paintings.
I am thrilled to announce that we’ve added Augusta Chronicle cartoonist Rick McKee to our site and to our Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate. Rick is a talented cartoonist with a very unique drawing style, and his conservative opinions set himself apart from most cartoonists that tend to drift more to the left.
A native of Tallahassee, Florida, Rick has been editorial cartoonist for The Augusta Chronicle in Georgia since January 1998, and in 2006, McKee was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. Along with everybody else.
Make sure you bookmark his page to keep up with this latest work, and check out some of his recent cartoons. Welcome aboard Rick!
Daryl Cagle / msnbc.com (click to start slideshow)
Each week, we collect all the best political cartoons and squeeze them into one over-sized slideshow for your viewing pleasure.
This week, we had a lot of big news events that cartoonists were able to sink their brushes into, not the least of which was yesterday’s announcement of the death of Moammar Gadhafi. Yet another GOP debate, Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan, Occupy Wall Street… cartoonists cover it all and more in this week’s Best Cartoons of the Week slideshow.
