DarylCagle.comI’m delighted to announce a new addition to our Cagle.com site, cartoonist Mike Scott. Â Mike used to illustrate as a staffer for the Newark Star Ledger, now he works for the start-up web site NewJerseyNewsroom.com. Â See Mike’s cartoon archive here.
Readers seem to like it when I post my rough sketches, so here we go again, with my sketches for my last couple of cartoons. Â The first one is the Obama Healthcare Caduceus. Â I do the rough sketch in hard pencil on slick paper, so I’m not tempted to do details and render.
Then I trace over the sketch on drafting vellum, with a hard pencil that I scan to look like ink and save as a bitmap file for black and white printing. Â The image below is what most readers see in the newspaper.
Then I add the color in Photoshop. Â I use rather unsophisticated colors because newspaper printing is lousy, and if I use anything that isn’t pastel and bright I get complaints from editors.
Here’s the sketch for another health care cartoon. Â Same thing here, hard pencil on slick paper.
I did the same thing with the pencil on vellum, but this time I just added a bit of gray tone to the drawing because I wasn’t quite inspired to color this one.
It wasn’t long ago that I was writing about Bill Schorr retiring from editorial cartooning.  I’m pleased to announce that Bill is coming back and will be drawing political cartoons that we will syndicate here at Cagle Cartoons, Inc. Bill worked as a staff cartoonist for the New York Daily News, The Kansas City Star and The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. He one of the best guys out there.  See an archive of Bill’s cartoons here, and his most recent cartoon below.
–And here’s a nice article from E&P about Bill’s return. To subscribe to our package and Bill’s cartoons, visit us at Caglecartoons.com and email [email protected]
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Here is the second part of the editorial cartoonist panel I hosted at the San Diego Comic-con, which features Omaha World Herald cartoonist Jeff Koterba talking about his collection of cartoons. Jeff suffers from the effects of Tourette’s Syndrome, a disease he inherited from his father, and has recently finished a memoir about his life called Inklings.
You can view more of Jeff’s great cartoon work on our website here.
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I just got this interesting email from the editorial page editor of the Pocono Record:
Hi Daryl,
Just wanted to pass along a criticism from a very, very angry white male reader.
On Sunday, Aug. 2 I ran an editorial on prison reform noting the U.S. claim to fame-high prison population and advocating that we look more closely at models where electronic monitoring, parole etc. are used.
This afternoon I came back from lunch to find a real lunatic-fringe, more than 5-minute-long diatribe on my voice mail. The guy ran out of time, so he called back and left another few minutes of vituperation.
To accompany the corrections-reform edit, I had used your March 5, 2008 cartoon of the guys in striped jail suits jumping out of the bursting can. I also ran, small, in the editorial, Adam Zyglis’ cartoon of the same date dealing with the same topic.
This caller was outraged because all the prisoners he could see in the cartoons were white. He took off on that big-time.
Adding fuel to the fire was a story we ran on page 1 that day featuring an interview of a local white woman whose son, a Marine, had been killed along with his black wife, while stationed in California. Four black guys, fellow Marines, have been charged. The guy took off on that, too, saying that if it had been four white guys it would be all over the news (It WAS all over the news, but apparently he missed that page-one point somehow · .)
Anyway I just wanted to pass along this guy’s seething, roiling criticism of the liberal media portraying criminals as white and victims as minorities.
So next time you depict jail birds, if you want to make this guy happy make sure they’re all black, okay?
Right.
Best,
Paula Heeschen
Editorial page editor
Pocono Record
Stroudsburg, PA
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This year, I hosted a panel at the San Diego Comic-con on political cartoons featuring myself and syndicated cartoonists Glenn McCoy, Jeff Koterba, Steve Breen and Michael Ramirez.
Here is the first part of the panel, featuring Glenn McCoy talking about a collection of his funny cartoons. Check back all this week for more videos from the comic-con.
In a cost cutting move, The Jerusalem Post has dropped “Dry Bones,” the comic strip by my buddy, Yaakov Kirschen who has drawn it for the Post for 35 years. We syndicate Yaakov’s cartoons and he will continue to draw Dry Bones for syndication.
See Yaakov’s cartoons here and see his blog.
Yaakov will be leaving Israel to do an “Artist in Residence” stint at Yale, which sounds like fun.
This is what my mailbox is like each day …
From: Patrick Ferrell
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 3:19 PM
You should have Daryl do a comparison between Cronkite and Ed Schultz, or that moron left wing Keith Olberman, oh but wait, I know, it might cut down the ratings of MSNBC even MORE if he did that lol”¦.you have to put somebody that people KNOW in a cartoon so you can try to make it funny, and nobody knows any of those so called newspeople at MSNBC so even if he did do one, nobody would get it. Besides, everybody knows how left wing Cronkite was, and he would have been right at home on MSNBC. I am surprised you guys have not picked up Dan Rather. Yeah”¦he probably would like a chance at ratings, so you couldn’t get him over there without busting your $2000 per day budget. If you could only print money like President Hussein is doing”¦.oh well”¦
I didn’t realize Daryl was so desperate, he had to work at MSNBC”¦..I guess I will have to cancel my subscription to his biased cartoons now. I thought he used to hit everybody, but working for MSNBC and doing that would get you fired, and you cant be fired these days and find a job”¦..ask Obama HA HA HA HA.
Good riddance
Patrick Ferrell
