My Missing Donald Trump Cartoon
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North Korea Response
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Kim Jong Un and Sony Pictures Chickens
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Sketch Freedom in Sweden
My buddy Kianoush Ramezani is putting on a big editorial cartoon exhibition in Gothenburg, Sweden with many of the top editorial cartoonists from around the world. The show is being hosted with the Gothenburg Film Festival with the support of Le Memorial de Caen, the big D-Day Museum in Normandy, France that is a big supporter of editorial cartoonists and hosts a cartoon festival each year (I attended in 2012 and I was impressed).
Kianoush is an interesting guy. He is a political refugee who had to flee the regime in his native Iran which wanted to punish him for his cartoons; he was given asylum in France and lives in Paris. Kianoush’s exhibition, Sketch Freedom, is about freedom of expression. I know most of the cartoonists in the exhibition through Cartooning for Peace, and some are Cagle.com cartoonists.
See if you can spot these Cagle.com cartoonists’ mugs in the collage below: Angel Boligan, Damian Glez, Daryl Cagle (me), Kap (who also did the poster), Kianoush, Peter Broelman, Riber Hansson and Tjeerd Royaards. The second big head under mine in the collage is Liza Donnelly, a New Yorker Magazine cartoonist; I expect the size of our big heads will shrink as new cartoonists are added to the exhibition – although Kianoush would be the first to say that it would take more than that to deflate my big head.
Here’s the full list of artists in the show and poster:
- Adjim Danngar – Chad
- Angel Boligan – Mexico
- Ann Telnaes – USA
- Assad Binakhahi – Iran
- Ayako Saito – Japan
- Bernard Bouton – France
- Cristina Sampaio – Portugal
- Damien Glez – Burkina Faso
- Daryl Cagle – USA
- Elena Ospina – Colombia
- Eray Ozbek – Turkey
- Guy Badeaux – Canada
- Hassan Karimzadeh – Iran
- Jaume Capdevila – KAP – Spain
- Jim Morin – USA
- Kianoush Ramezani – Iran
- Liza Donnelly – USA
- Mohammad Sabaaneh – Palestine
- Peter Broelman – Australia
- Phil Umbdenstock – France
- Riber Hansson – Sweden
- Tjeerd Royaards – Netherlands
- Victor Bogorad – Russia
- Vladimir Kazanevsky – Ukraine
- Xavier Bonilla – BONIL – Ecuador
- Zulkiflee Anwar Haque – Zunar – Malaysia
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Inserting New Rectal Feeding
This is a classic oldie showing dinnertime at Guantanamo. The Gitmo prisoners go on hunger strikes and there was lots of news about how they were force-fed “Ensure” through tubes in their noses. I thought that was fun when superimposed on Norman’s Rockwell’s famous dinnertime painting.
When the new Senate report on CIA torture came out we learned that these guys are also fed rectally, and they drink rectally too, with “rectal hydration.” I thought I had to issue a correction, so here it is …
It is important to be accurate.
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Oil Prices Drop on the Despots!
Oil prices dropped below $60/barrel this week, to the delight of American drivers and the dismay of ugly, oil-producing countries around the world. I thought of drawing a group scene with even more despots from nasty countries, like Libya, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the list – trouble is, there are too many of them, and they don’t have good, recognizable characters for the barrel of oil to bash.
So, I did three versions of this cartoon, Iran, Russia and Venezuela, which each have fascinating, and from an American point of view, encouraging stories of economic collapse with the drop in oil prices. Newspapers can pair these with Op-Ed pieces on each country’s interesting travails.
I tried combining these, but that was confusing. Simple is good. Here’s Vladimir Putin …
I love drawing Putin – he’s so creepy. Next is Venezuela and their president, Nicolas Maduro.
This is the first time I’ve drawn Maduro. I like his low forehead and widows peak. The last version is Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is a delight to draw, but like Maduro, he requires a label because people don’t know what he looks like.
Iran’s Supreme Leader makes me laugh. He also likes to throw Iranian cartoonists into jail, and my web sites are blocked in Iran – still, the Supreme Leader makes me laugh. Just the fact that he wants to call himself “Supreme Leader” is funny.
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Russia and Oil Price Drop
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Iran and Oil Price Drop
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Venezuela and Oil Price Drop
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Question: PICK ONE
Here’s my newest cartoon on the police shootings protests. Just pick one, from 1 to 4, then turn your computer over to read the answers. I don’t think that will work if you’re looking at this on your cell phone or tablet, because the screen will pop to right side up if you turn your computer over. I’m an old, desktop computer guy so it works for me. Heavy, though.
