DarylCagle.comThis cartoon about grouchy, California-bashing, government-dependent Tennessee conservatives marks the end of my Summer stint as a local cartoonist for the alternative-weekly Nashville Scene newspaper. I’m back to drawing national/world cartoons again. Thanks to my local fans in this little blue spot in very red Tennessee!
My new local, altie-newspaper, Nashville Scene cartoon is about city planning. The “NashvilleNext” plan has been in the works for a long time, and it is pretty good, placing new, high density developments in appropriate high traffic corridors (I know, you’re falling asleep). The problem is that Nashville is booming and developers are pushing to put their developments anywhere they can make a buck (like next door to me). Our pro-growth Metropolitan Planning Commission likes to let developers do whatever they want, and those developers, with their deep pockets, are hard to resist.
Here’s my latest local, altie-newspaper cartoon for the Nashville Scene. Nashville is called the “buckle of the Bible Belt” because the place is full of colossal, mega-churches and giant church corporate headquarters. The scale of these churches is stunning. I’m from California where people don’t talk to each other as often as chatty Tennesseans. Often, the first thing I hear in a conversation with a neighbor, or someone I don’t know, is “where do you go to church?”
Donald Trump casts a big shadow over the Republican field as we approach the first debate. I drew little caricatures of all the candidates – can you name them all? (I would have missed Jim Gilmore – he declared late and I stuck him behind the crowd, behind Ben Carson, as an afterthought.)
I started off drawing this one with Donald Trump as a storm cloud raining on the other Republicans.
When I posted this we started getting calls from editors who wanted a color version, and I haven’t done that yet. I suppose I still should, but I think the shadow version is better.
I’m guessing that the Fox News debate will be either storm or shadow, with Trump on top. We’ll see.
I’m starting to enjoy Nathan as a cartoon character! I think I’ll use him some more in my local, Nashville Scene cartoons (the newest cartoon is below).
This is my cartoon on the Tennessee shooting tragedy. I didn’t think I could do anything more than the flowers and flags I’m seeing on the news, so I went with flags at half mast. This is probably a local cartoon, since many readers around the country won’t know the Tennessee flag, still, it is a local tragedy deserving of a local cartoon.
This reminds us that Tennessee is part of a big, ugly world.
Today on CNN there is a constant barrage of Trump-bashing in response to Trump’s John McCain-bashing. The TV pundits seem sure that Trump’s words have doomed his presidential campaign; I’m not so sure, and as a cartoonist I enjoy having Trump around.
Here’s my new cartoon for my local, altie-weekly, the Nashville Scene. Confederate monuments are under fire throughout the South and I’m piling on.
Want to see me make a rare speech and Powerpoint presentation about my cartoons? Come to this in Thousands Oaks, California on Saturday, July 25th at 5:00pm.
Talk: By Daryl Cagle, Cartoon Artist and Syndicate Owner , July 25th 5:00, light refreshments
Where: Janss Market Place, Suite 193 C
Admission is free, donations accepted.
Exhibition: “The Art of Politics ” – Then and Now”
Presented by the Conejo Valley Art Museum:
Through August 9, 2015
The cartoons, by Artists that you have been seeing in the Editorial Page of your daily newspapers will be silent auctioned at the Conejo Valley Art Museum beginning July 25th through August 8th.
Exhibit ” The Art of Politics ─Then and Now” through Sunday, August 9th.
Silent Auction Date: July 25th through August 9th.
Republicans are very concerned that bakers have the freedom to refuse service to gay couples who want to buy wedding cakes. Now that marriage equality is the law of the land, our attention is turned to the poor, abused bakers.
