My Missing Donald Trump Cartoon
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GOP uernica
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Bill Day’s Gun Control Cartoons
Back in May, columnist Tina Dupuy (who I syndicate to newspapers and Web sites nationwide) wrote about the need for gun control in America, noting that the NRA was for gun control over its first hundred years and only recently started to mention the Second Amendment as their cause.
There’s no cartoonist who cares about the issue of gun control more than Bill Day. Here are some of Day’s best cartoons about guns in America, including some of his recent cartoons following the tragic school shooting in Connecticut.
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What do you think – do we need more gun control laws, or less? Comment below or weigh in on our Facebook page!
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School Shooting Vultures
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As our campaign to help unemployed cartoonist Bill Day from losing his home enters its third week, we need your help more than ever to achieve our goal of raising $35,000.
Bill Day’s most recent cartoon
So far, we’ve raised over $23,000, but we’re also at the point where many campaigns start to lose steam. Don’t let that happen to Bill!
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Thank you again for your generosity and commitment to political cartoons! The outpouring of support for Bill has been tremendous, and if we can keep this momentum going, I’m sure we’ll be successful in keeping Bill drawing!
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Off The Cliff
By popular demand I’ve been posting my messy pencil sketches. There have been lots of cartoons about the fiscal cliff, which is an ideal and flexible metaphor for cartoons. Obama seems willing to go off the cliff; this cartoon says, “if we go off the cliff, we all go off the cliff.”
I know this cartoon won’t get reprinted widely, just because it is in a vertical format; but some newspapers will take advantage of the cartoon and do some interesting layouts, nesting type in the space at the bottom right. I like to mix up layouts – that’s one of the freedoms of not having an editor and a fixed hole to fill in print every day.
Here’s my messy sketch in pencil, hard pencil for a light layout and soft pencil for darker details.
Next I trace over the sketch in pencil on vellum for finished line art, which is what most people see in the newspapers that print in black and white.
And then I color it in layers in Photoshop, with the black line art as the top layer, for the Web and for the newspapers that print in color, and I save it as a 400 dpi, CMYK tiff file, 9 inches tall and about 6 inches wide.
I debated with myself about putting in a background color, or just a white background, and settled on a subtle bit of airbrush blue to make the air/motion/cloud pop out and give a little sense of space.
Below is the messy pencil sketch for my previous cartoon. Yes, i’ve gotten e-mails from some kids who “didn’t get it.” I explained the idiom “cutting off your nose to spite your face” and, somehow, I don’t think that explanation was satisfying to them.
Here’s the final line art, which most people see in the newspaper …
I always think the line art looks best. Here is the color …
A couple of people e-mailed me to say that they thought it was clever how I turned the elephant into a pig. Actually, I didn’t think of that, but I’ll take credit for it. Subliminal cartooning.
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To Spite Your Face
Bill’s most recent cartoon – Republican Speaker John Boehner and his crocodile tears.
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Last week, we launched an Indiegogo campaign aimed at raising enough money to keep unemployed cartoonist Bill Day from losing his home. I’m very proud to announce that a little more than a week into our drive, we’ve raised over $18,000 towards keeping Bill drawing – more than halfway there!
We still have a long way to go, so I humbly ask that you consider donating to this very worthy cause. Not only would you be helping a brilliant cartoonist and important voice continue to contribute to the national discourse, but you could also snag some impressive perks for doing so, including a signed print or one of Bill’s own original cartoons, suitable for framing.
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Thank you for your generosity and commitment to political cartoons! The outpouring of support for Bill has been tremendous, and if we can keep this momentum going, I’m sure we’ll be successful in keeping Bill drawing!
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Fat Uncle Sam
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Benghazi Media Monkeys
This cartoon by conservative cartoonist Glenn McCoy motivated me to draw my cartoon below. Glenn forgot the most obvious monkey and I thought I needed to correct the oversight.
Last month I corrected an error in a cartoon by Glenn’s even-more-conservative brother, Gary. The McCoys are such an inspiration!
