DarylCagle.comTomorrow’s the big day. Prince William will marry commoner Kate Middleton in a ceremony full of pomp and circumstance that has pushed the British monarchy in front of us all, thanks to our ever-loving media that has been covering every minute detail leading up to the big event.
Cartoonists have their own thoughts about those crazy kids getting hitched. Check them out in our new Royal Wedding cartoon slideshow.
Barack Obama was born in the United States. He is officially an American. The President released his long-form birth certificate today in reaction to increasing calls, let by loud-mouthed clown and GOP front-runner Donald Trump, that he was somehow born on foreign land and not eligible to be our commander-in-chief. Trump has latched onto this birther issue, devolving himself as a serious candidate. Based on his reaction to the news today, I might have to change my cartoon to have Trump asking, “Where are Obama’s school records?” 
I laughed at Nate Beeler’s cartoon for the Washington Examiner, showcasing the resiliency of the birther movement… 
While Pulitzer Prize-winner Mike Keefe of the Denver Post suggests the birther’s next line of attack… 
Green Bay Press-Gazette cartoonist Joe Heller shows that the birthers will always find a reason to doubt Obama’s authenticity… 
View even more cartoons in our new Obama’s Birth Certificate cartoon collection: 
One of our newest syndicated columnists, Keli Goff (check out her columns here), wrote a column last week criticizing Gwyneth Paltrow for her suggestion that “everything in my life that’s good is because I worked my ass off to get it and to maintain it.”
As Goff noted, Paltrow was born to Hollywood royalty and credits “Uncle Steven” for landing one of her first film roles (that’s Steven Spielberg, for those keeping score at home), advantages most people don’t have to help them along. She went on to write “that like a lot of privileged people, [Paltrow’s] under the delusion that she earned everything that she has, and then has the audacity to gloat about it.”
Well, this obviously upset Dilbert creator Scott Adams, who wrote on his blog that Goff is wrong to attack poor Gwyneth, claiming her column lacks the proper context.
Adams went on to write this:
“It’s worth noting, in the interest of context, that Goff was born with a few advantages herself. She’s beautiful, smart, and apparently had the resources she needed to make it through NYU and go on to get her Master’s Degree at Columbia University. If you ask Goff what made her successful, would she credit her hard work and leave out her other obvious advantages? Or would she answer honestly and say, “I worked hard for what I’ve achieved, but it didn’t hurt that I’m a brilliant, smoking-hot African-American woman in 2011.” I’m just saying that people don’t generally talk about their advantages. To do so would be…wait for it…gloating.”
So Adams seems to be making the case that the only reason why Goff went to NYU and got her master’s degree at Columbia University is because she is a “brilliant, smoking-hot African-American woman.”
So what do you think? Should Goff has not been so quick to criticize Paltrow when Goff herself has the advantage of being a “brilliant, smoking-hot African-American woman?”
I just received Lloyd Dangle’s last installment of Troubletown. After 22 years, he’s ending his popular alt-weekly cartoon series to work on other projects (read my interview with Dangle here).
Here it is:
Happy Easter everyone! We have tons of terrific Easter cartoon collections for you to enjoy this fine Sunday morning:
HAPPY EASTER CARTOON COLLECTION
TRUE MEANING OF EASTER CARTOON COLLECTION
EASTER BUNNY CARTOON COLLECTION
Happy Earth Day! Each April 22, Earth Day marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. The idea came to founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the aftermath of the horrific 1969 oil spill in Santa Barbara, California.
Check out what cartoonists think of the environmental holiday with our Earth Day cartoon slideshow.
Donald Trump for President? Might not be as far-fetched as you think. A recently released Pew Research poll shows that Trump has the highest profile among GOP hopefuls, and polls last week showed The Donald ahead of the rest of the GOP pack, including Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney.
What does the elevation of Donald Trump as a serious presidential candidate mean for jobs? Well, for starters, there should be some job job security for the nation’s cartoonists. Check out their take in our Donald Trump for President cartoon slideshow.
One year ago, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, eventually leaking two-and-a-half million gallons of oil a day into the surrounding waters. More than 200 million gallons were leaked into the Gulf before it was all said and done.
During the nearly three months it took to shut down the well, cartoonists responded to every breaking detail with their own unique brand of indignation and satire.
Take a look back at the best cartoons drawn about the disaster in the gulf with our BP Oil Spill – One Year Later cartoon collection.
Castro is out.
For the first time since Cuba’s 1959 revolution, Fidel Castro was not included in the Communist Party’s leadership, and someone other than Fidel or Raúl has been name to the second-highest position in the Communist Party.
We all knew this day would come, but it’s still shocking to reflect on the longevity of Fidel as the leader of Cuba.
It’s interesting looking back at my cartoons about Fidel and his iron-grip for so many years on the Cuban people.
I drew this cartoon back in 2006 when Fidel was undergoing intestinal surgery and provisionally handed over power for the first time to his younger brother Raul.
Now Raul will be expected to set a new economic course for Cuba. The congress’ approval of a package of more than 300 reforms is an admission that the status quo isn’t working.
It’s always fun to end things on a joke. Looking back at my archive of Castro cartoons, Fidel is no exception.
