DarylCagle.comWall Street suffered a brutal day, with the Dow Jones industrial average plummeting by 500 points, the worst drop since October 2008. The Dow, S&P 500 and the Nasdaq are down more than 10 percent from their previous highs and have erased their gains for the year. So much for that debt ceiling compromise calming the markets.
Check out our collection of Scary Stock Market cartoons.
Are members of the tea party extremists? Some pundits seem to think so, pointing to the last couple of months where they were successfully able to hold Congress and President Obama hostage in order to get their demands passed.
One thing’s for certain – tea party members have certainly shaken-up the corridors of power in Washington. Whether that’s a good thing for the country remains to be seen.
Cartoonists are never afraid to weigh in on the tough questions, and it’s no different with the tea party. Here are 10 political cartoons that explore the notion of the tea party, and whether or not we should think of them as extremists.
Bill Day notices some striking similarities between Muslim extremists and the tea party…
Monte Wolverton explores what the tea party is spewing…
Florida Today cartoonist Jeff Parker thinks the tea party has gone overboard on what they’ve thrown overboard…
Caricaturist Taylor Jones thinks Eric Cantor points the way forward for the tea party…
Buffalo News cartoonist Adam Zyglis thinks we should change the spelling of “tea”…
R.J. Matson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch shows the reaction the tea party has to the word “compromise”…
Dutch cartoonist Joep Bertrams thinks the tea party have performed a hold-up…
While Eric Allie thinks Democrats and the main stream media have misrepresented the tea party all together…
Some still point to race, as Brian Duffy does with his cartoon…
While Hartford Courant cartoonist Bob Englehart thinks they’re just out to wreck the country…
I’m very pleased to announce that we’ve added the brilliant cartoonist Bill Day to our stable of award-winning syndicated cartoonists at Cagle Cartoons.
Bill will draw three cartoons a week for us, along with a local cartoon each week about Tennessee, which we will syndicate to nearly 900 newspapers world wide.
Bill is a two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award in Cartooning, and a five-time winner of the Green Eyeshade Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. He has also been honored with the National Headliner Award, the John Fischetti Award, First Amendment Award, New York Newspaper Guild’s Page One Award, National Cartoonists Society’s Division Award for Best Editorial Cartoons and James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism..
The defense of the oppressed and their condition is a deep and eloquent theme in his work. “I have great fun drawing and using humor in my cartoons,” says Day. “But when a terrible injustice occurs, I’ll use the most powerful images possible to address it.”
Here are some recent cartoons by Day:
In light of recent events involving our deficit, military spending and budget cuts, this 1932 cartoon by 3-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Rollin Kirby feels prescient.
It’s been a busy week – everything from a Norwegian terrorist to the death of a Grammy Award-winning singer, plus some debt ceiling nonsense thrown in for good measure and an end to the NFL lockout.
Want to recap? Then check out our new Week in Political Cartoons slideshow.
Are you sick of all the debt ceiling talk yet? Tired of hearing about the looming default crisis, and what it’s going to do to our economy, jobs and interest rates? So are the nation’s cartoonists!
For weeks, they’ve been hard at work cranking out cartoons nonstop about the debt crisis we face, so I thought I’d pull ten cartoons that I think really sum up where we are, as depressing as that might be.
1. Caricaturist Taylor Jones thinks it’s about time to start learning a new Pledge of Allegiance…
2. Nate Beeler of the Washington Examiner thinks the media has frame the “lack of compromise” poorly…
3. David Fitzsimmons of the Arizona Star feels he’s found the source of Republican’s unwillingness to compromise…
4. Jimmy Margulies of the Bergen Record thinks Obama is living up to his campaign pledge (sort-of)…
5. Pat Bagley of the Salt Lake Tribune seems to have found his villain in this whole debacle…
6. Ottawa Citizen cartoonist Cam Cardow thinks we should just listen to Lincoln…
7. Buffalo News cartoonist Adam Zyglis sees a problem in the Republican fire-fighting methods…
8. Bob Englehart of the Hartford Courant was inspired by Pixar to describe his debt ceiling thoughts…
9. Eric Aille sums up his thoughts about the largest problem our country faces… Audrey 2!
10. This Taylor Jones cartoon of Eric Cantor seems to sum up the debate nicely…
The “going out of business sale” is underway at 399 Borders stores across the country, marking an end to the once-strong bookstore chain. As sad as the closure and the job losses will be for the local communities Borders serves, it is somewhat ironic that the very store that helped push independent bookstores out of existence is now suffering the same fate due to Amazon’s power.
What do cartoonists think of Borders’ shutdown? Check out our Bankrupt Borders cartoon collection to find out.
Amy Winehouse, the British singer who was elevated into stardom by her iconic single “Rehab”, was found dead in her London apartment last Saturday of yet-undetermined causes. She was 27 years old, and joins a long list of music greats, from Jimi Hendrix to Janis Joplin, who never made it to their 28th birthday.
Click here to view our Amy Winehouse cartoon slideshow.
