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Press Jerk or Bitch?

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date May 30, 2013

Here is my newest cartoon, with the media as an abused spouse of our petulant president. I did two versions of this one, with Obama saying “Bitch” for brave editors, and one with Obama saying “Jerk” for timid editors. I hope they will print “Bitch” but I expect that they will choose to print “Jerk.” Here is the rough sketch.

Here it is in black and white, as most newspapers readers will see it – “Bitch” version.

And color, “Bitch” version …

Here’s the color “Jerk” version …

Editors can be pretty darn timid, and I suspect that both versions of this cartoon might scare them off.

My grouchy editorial cartoonist colleagues, who lambasted me for my two-version Miranda cartoon, will be debating banning two versions of editorial cartoons as “unethical” at our upcoming convention. I must admit that, if some kinds of cartoons are banned, I’ll be motivated to draw them anyway, just to break the rules.

Another thing my colleagues will discuss banning are cartoons that are similar to other cartoons a cartoonist has drawn in the past. This abused press cartoon is similar to an oldie I drew about high gas prices.

It will be interesting to see how the cartoonists plan to enforce their new ethical rules.

The abused spouse gas cartoon generated some angry mail from actual abused spouses who were upset with me for not taking them seriously, in some strong and emotional language. I actually apologized for this one, since people were so upset. For any readers I offend with my new cartoon, you again have my apology – it is not my intent to criticize abused spouses – the cartoon is only about Obama and the press!

Tags abused women, ap, associated press, Barack Obama, beaten wives, cartoonist, Eric Holder, Fox News, gas, gasoline, high gas prices, james rosen, media, press, Uncle Sam, wife, wife beater

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Puppies, Elephants, Bunnies and Sexual Assault

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date May 20, 2013

Here are my last four cartoons. The most recent is below, on the press growing less cute and adorable for Obama. I think if I drew puppies in all of my editorial cartoons, my work would be much more popular. I didn’t quite know how I would handle this one when I started drawing, so the rough sketch is a bit of a mess.

I was thinking of making this a four panel cartoon at first, with the doggie growing progressively bigger and a caption, but the simple two panel format won out. here is the line art that most people will see in their newspapers that print in black and white.

And here is the color. Readers love the doggies.

I drew the cartoon below when Obama made his first statement about the IRS scandal. here’s the black and white most people see.

And here’s the color.

Before that I did this one on the ongoing, outrageous, sexual assault scandals in the military.

And I drew this “Energizer Bunny” cartoon about the Benghazi Scandal that the Republicans can’t bear to see fade away.

There was a time when I would see an Energizer Bunny cliche editorial cartoon every week. Alas, those were the good old days.

Tags 501(c)4, ap, associated press, Barack Obama, benghazi, cartoonist, conservative groups, dog, doggie, energizer bunny, Internal Revenue Service, irs, media, military sexual assault scandal, press, puppie, puppy, scandal, tax

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Sandy Hook, the Cliff and Unions

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date December 25, 2012

The cliff is such a natural cartoon that I have to keep drawing it. This cartoon (right) was from December 20th, when the fiscal cliff negotiations were going nowhere, and I was drawing John Boehner hanging off the cliff where the elephant is, and my son came by and asked me who that was. It was fine when I explained it, but he didn’t know John Boehner, and I thought I needed to draw and elephant. We’ve had lots of Boehner cartoons, even a great Boehner section – but he hasn’t risen to the level where young people know him, and I’ve been sticking to the elephant in his place. I hate that our cartoons are puzzles for schoolkids to suffer through.

I’ll draw Boehner soon enough.

The two cartoons below were drawn about the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. I hate that I have to draw cartoons about heinous crimes, because we all agree on how awful the murders were and the issues are all side issues … comments about grieving, and cartoons about gun control are appropriate, I just wasn’t inspired for another round of redundant gun control cartoons. Then I watched a horrendously insensitive interview on Fox News with parents of a surviving child, and a couple other, awful interviews with grieving parents that made me angry. The hype around this was pretty ugly, and inspired the media vultures cartoon below. I think it is good to bash another bad guy than the shooter in cartoons – best not to mention the shooter at all – the few news outlets that don’t mention the murderer’s name are being responsible journalists.

The next cartoon is another riff on the same theme. I got a lot of response to these cartoons from readers who were also disgusted by the media reaction to the tragedy. Ugly stuff.

The next cartoon was about the passage of “right-to-work” legislation by Michigan’s Republican governor and legislature. I know this cartoon won’t get reprinted much, but when you gotta pee, you gotta pee.

Tags abc news, afl-cio, cartoonist, cbs news, CNN News, connecticut school shooting, fiscal cliff, john boehner, media, Michigan, msnbc.com, msnbc.Fox News, right to work laws, sandy hook elementary school, teamsters, uaw, unions, united auto workers, vultures

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Benghazi Media Monkeys

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date November 30, 2012

This cartoon by conservative cartoonist Glenn McCoy motivated me to draw my cartoon below. Glenn forgot the most obvious monkey and I thought I needed to correct the oversight.

Last month I corrected an error in a cartoon by Glenn’s even-more-conservative brother, Gary. The McCoys are such an inspiration!

Tags abc news, benghazi, benghazi coverup, benghazigate, cable, cartoonist, cbs news, Fox News, Gary McCoy, Glenn McCoy, hear, Libya, media, monkeys, nbc news, report, see no evil, speak, Susan Rice, television

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An Homage to Gary McCoy

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date October 21, 2012

I ripped off our ultra-conservative cartoonist Gary McCoy with my new debate cartoon. See Gary’s cartoon below mine. I love you, Gary.

Tags Barack Obama, boxing, cartoonist, Cartoons, Fox News, Gary McCoy, mainstream media, media, Mitt Romney

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Newspaper Shakeup Down Under

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date June 21, 2012

Newspapers in the U.S. aren’t the only ones suffering from a steep decline in revenue as advertisers move online. Australian media company Fairfax, owners of Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, sent shockwaves through the country by announcing it would layoff 1,900 members of its staff and put its online versions behind a paywall.

I asked Aussie cartoonist Paul Zanetti (whom I syndicate through Cagle Cartoons) to sum up the latest for our American readers. Here’s what he wrote:

With Fairfax, there are a planned 1900 job losses. 1500 of these are from the Sydney and Melbourne printing plants – which are being sold off (who will buy if the majors are getting out of print?).

The rest of the job losses will be journalist redundancies (400) over all their titles. The plan is to go hard into digital and with a content pay wall.

This has been on the cards for years. I’m surprised it’s taken so long. It’s not that there’s no demand for news and information, which is as strong as ever. It’s the delivery method that’s changing. Information and news has to be instantaneous in this competitive and fast-moving world. Newspapers can’t compete with the internet, radio and TV (particularly cable TV).

Fairfax’s Greg Hywood seemed to be reacting to the inevitable, looking frightened at his news conference this week, with an air of gloom and doom.

In contrast, News Ltd’s Kim Williams looked relaxed and confident, when he announced yesterday a bid for another major media company and various future plans, saying, NEWS is not a newspaper company but a media company. He also added that NEWS sells 11 million newspapers a week (in a country of 22 million and Fairfax sells 3 million newspapers). Having said that, it’s the online ads, not circulation decline, affecting the bottom line.

The internet is changing, not just the newspaper industry, but retail, music, travel, local video / dvd stores, telecommunications etc.

We should embrace and move with change. It’s exciting. The internet provides opportunities for all. It’s a great equaliser putting more control and choices into the hands of the every man (and woman – and kid for that matter).

Those crying out for the status quo to remain, are the latter day luddites. The news media will continue to grow. Only the delivery will change.

I see the glass half full. Bring on the exciting future of media.