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GOP Infighting
Here are my three most recent cartoons! I just finished this one on the Republicans’ 40th vote against Obamacare and their recent attempt to shut down the government over Obamacare. They will be run over each time. They don’t learn.
Since you folks like to see my messy, rough sketches, here you go …
The next one is the Arab Spring in Egypt. Here is the line art that most people will see in the newspapers.
I try to do enough line work in these that I get some dark and medium areas to anchor the composition. I wouldn’t worry so much about that if I knew it would only run in color. The color version is below. I’m trying to use more texture in my color now, mostly with a rubber stamp pattern in Photoshop that looks like a sponge.
And I did this cartoon about teachers, then and now …
This is a refurbished oldie which has been a big seller in pay-per-use. I noticed another nice book sale on this one in our system last week, and I thought the cartoon needed to be freshened up. Here’s the original …
I always tell cartoonists not to put the year in their cartoons. For some reason artists like to put the year after a copyright circle ©, which just makes the old cartoons, that should sell as evergreens, suffer for their age. Now this cartoon isn’t dated, and I think it is greatly improved with the black and white in the first, 1960 panel.
I noticed after I posted this last week that almost every newspaper subscriber was downloading it, even though I marked it as a revision. Some cartoons strike a chord. I got this idea from my Israeli cartoonist buddy, Uri Fink. Thanks again, Uri.
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Teachers Then and Now
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Obama and the Arab Spring in Egypt
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Anothony Weiner INFINITY
I just finished my new Anthony Weiner cartoon, “Weiner FOREVER” and I thought I should give some explanation. That’s my rough sketch at the right. The color version is below. I duplicated the infinite number of little Weiners in Photohop.
Weiner is an atrocious, self-absorbed nut-case, but he is a gift to cartoonists. We have a wonderful collection of Weiner cartoons here – take a look!
I have to credit my ultra-right-wing cartoonist buddy, Sean Delonas with the Weiner as a little dick idea, from his cartoon (below). I thought the never-ending/infinity aspect to my cartoon was different enough to justify a new cartoon, but I have to acknowledge that I ripped Sean off.
Thanks Sean!
Here’s Sean’s cartoon that I ripped off.
Here’s a Cagle/Weiner oldie.
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Anthony Weiner FOREVER
Here’s my weekly batch of new cartoons. The first one is my “Stand Your Ground” cartoon. Any cartoon about guns gets a lot of crazy response – as this one did. People are such nuts. Here is the rough pencil sketch.
Next I did the finished line art. I dragged three different speech balloons into position in a layer in Photoshop, rather than actually drawing all the speech balloons.
I had mixed feelings about whether to leave it as line art for the black and white version. There is something elegant about line art with no tone – but I couldn’t make up my mind, so I did a gray version, and I made both versions available to the syndication customers. Interestingly, half of the editors downloaded the line version, and half went for the gray version. Go figure.
Here it is in color. I added some subtle texture to the ground.
Here is how it looked the next day in my local newspaper, the Santa Barbara News-Press.
Lots of cartoonists were drawing cartoons that were critical of the media attention paid to the new baby future king of England. I thought I would go with cute rather than critical. I don’t have any angry feelings about this subject. Cute is fine with me. Here is the line art that most people will see in the newspaper.
And here’s the color. I’m trying to do more color that looks like I’m using a sponge, as I used to do back in the days when i painted with gouache.
We almost saw the “Nuclear Option” happen in the Senate, when Senator Harry Reid threatened to get rid of the filibuster rules that Republicans were using to block Obama nominees. There was a compromise, but I suspect we’ll see this Nuclear Option thing happen again soon. Here’s the gray version, with sponge texture (the line art was too spare on this one, it needed gray tone).
Yes, that’s a very Herblockian “Mr. A-Bomb.” Gotta love Herblock. Here’s the color version, with spongy texture.
Most of the country had a crazy heat wave last week, which is always a good excuse for a trite, Global Warming cartoon. This one was fun to draw, and I went with the line art – no gray tone for the black and white version of this one.
And here’s the color version …
That’s it! I think I’ll draw Detroit tomorrow.
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Senate Nuclear Option
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Baby Future King
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Standing My Ground