Yesterday, a 5.8 earthquake struck Virgina, and shook up the entire East Coast, from Georgia to New England. Striking just before 2 p.m., many cartoonists were undoubtedly putting the finishing touches on Wednesday’s cartoon before they had to quickly shift gears and pump out a new cartoon about the rare earthquake for their newspaper.
Nate Beeler, of the Washington Examiner, came up with this inventive and funny cartoon…
Mobile Press-Register cartoonist J.D Crowe thinks a little bit of a shake-up is a good thing…
Rob Tornoe used the news of the injury of one of the Phillies’ star pitchers as the peg for his Philadelphia Inquirer toon…
While John Cole of the Scranton Times-Tribune and Adam Zyglis of the Buffalo News, drawing hundreds of miles apart, proved that two great minds can think alike… and at the same time too…
With the ups-and-downs of the stock market over the last couple of weeks, and the threat of a double-dip recession looming, those close to retirement have been getting queasy every time they look at their 401(k) statements.
Check out what cartoonists think of the whole mess with our new Wrecked Retirement cartoon collection.
Mike Keefe / Denver Post (click to view slideshow)
A moderate earthquake rattled the East Coast today, shaking buildings and homes and rattling hundreds of thousands of people from North Carolina to New York.
Check out our East Coast Earthquake cartoon slideshow for some funny cartoons about this rare East Coast earthquake.
David Fitzsimmons / Arizona Daily Star (click to view slideshow)
Moammar Gadhafi’s regime in Libya is at a tipping point, as rebels swept into the heart of the capital on their way to end the tyrant’s 42 years in power.
The weak job market and Wall Street’s ups and downs dominated the news this week. People watched their 401k’s with nervous despair as the market responded to problems in Europe and signs that the U.S. might be headed towards another recession. Oh, and there was some guy named Perry who entered the race for President. It would have be treasonous not to mention him.
A disturbing old brochure, promoting the World Trade Center.
Ten years ago I was president of the National Cartoonists Society and I brought our annual convention to the World Trade Center, shortly before its demise. I was looking through some of my old files this morning and I found a disturbing brochure (right) promoting the World Trade Center. Oh dear.
With the ten year anniversary of 9/11 coming soon, I collaborated on a French book project with Le Monde’s front page cartoonist, Plantu. We had a 32 page “conversation” about the ten years since 9/11 in comic book format for an anthology called 12 Septembre published by the big Belgian graphic novel publisher, Casterman (they do the Tin Tin books). The cover (left) of the book was interesting, disturbing, perhaps offensive, and a surprise to me. With victims and planes casually falling, or floating without emotion, and a cute, red lipped chick, big in the foreground. I don’t get it – maybe it’s a French thing. I know that cute chicks on book covers sell books … still …
The collaboration with Plantu was great fun. Plantu is a big star in France, with his cartoons gracing the front pages of the national newspaper, Le Monde, for over twenty years. I’ve never heard of editorial cartoonists having a graphic conversation like this before. We decided to bounce back and forth between two page spreads, working forward through the ten years. This was a pretty big project, and explains why I didn’t draw very many editorial cartoons back in January and February.
Le Monde is publishing excerpts from the book in their weekly magazine; a copy of a spread from my conversation with Plantu is below, and further below are a couple of my spreads in English, at a readable size.
One of the spreads from last Sunday's Le Monde, showing my graphic "conversation" with Plantu.
Now that Rick Perry has inserted himself into the 2012 presidential race, all eyes are on the Texas governor to see if he can overtake front-runners Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney and win the party’s nomination. He’s already turned up the notch in terms of rhetoric, saying that military personnel don’t respect Barack Obama and criticizing the Federal Reserve as being almost “treasonous.”
Hartford Courant cartoonist Bob Englehart thinks Perry looks and sounds like the GOP’s nominee…
For those that miss the days of George W. Bush, Dave Granlund thinks Perry might be right up your alley…
Although as Monte Wolverton points out, Perry might want to remodel the U.S. Capitol a bit…
But what does Jesus think of Perry’s candidacy? Denver Post cartoonist Mike Keefe imagines for us…
Taylor Jones thinks Rick Perry’s real religious devotion comes down to one simple phrase…
So Michele Bachmann is the winner of the Iowa Straw Poll, elevating her to front-runner status in the crowded Republican field vying to become the party’s nominee for President in 2012.
It looks like Bachmann has channeled “the spirit” of John Wayne, which she claimed she would do when she launched her campaign in Waterloo, Iowa back in June. Wayne was born in Waterloo, as was Bachmann.
The only problem: The John Wayne with roots in Waterloo is John Wayne Gacy, a serial killer who was executed in 1994 after being convicted of 33 murders.
Oh well, she’s running for President anyway, and is now one of the top-tier candidates. Check out what cartoonists think with our collection of Michele Bachmann cartoons.
Bill Day / Cagle Cartoons (click to view cartoon collection)
