My Missing Donald Trump Cartoon
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Ferguson Grand Jury Time Bomb
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Ferguson Grand Jury Time Bomb
Here’s my new cartoon, the “Ferguson Wave.”
Apparently, this cartoon is a bit difficult to understand; I’ve been asked to explain it too often. So, here goes, as the cop walks by, the black folks raise their hands, and to the old ladies, that looks like they are doing “the Wave” at the ball park. That’s all there is. Nothing more. Really. Not so funny when I have to explain it, huh?
Here’s the rough sketch. I figure most of the drawing out in the rough sketch stage, then the rest is just rendering.
Most newspapers reprint my cartoons in black and white, and I usually do a separate coloring job for a grayscale cartoon for most readers to see. Here’s the black and white version. Somehow, I think black and white is always better.
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Ferguson Wave
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Gotta Love Those Policemen
Here’s my new cartoon, about the militarized police, reaching out to the community in Ferguson, Missouri.
The situation struck me as similar to the military trying to “win the hearts and minds” of people in Afghanistan. A couple of years ago, I drew the cartoon below …
Militaries break things well, they don’t build things well – including good relationships with the communities they occupy. I don’t like seeing police departments act like the military.
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Love the Police
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Racist Comments in the News
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Election Sprint and Romney Taxes
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Is This Obama Cartoon Grotesque and Racist?
As questions grew about the scope and focus of the Obama Administration’s offensive in Libya, Columbia Daily Tribune cartoonist John Darkow drew the cartoon above, suggesting that the “limited target” that Obama spoke off actually included the removal of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
But Daytona Beach News-Journal reader Martin Press couldn’t get past what he refered to as the “wildly exaggerated features” of President Obama.
“The caricature… is so disrespectful to the president of the United States that it could have been drawn by one of the nutty “birthers” who infest the media,” wrote Press in an letter to the editor.
We’ve had numerous discussions here about the unique difficulties that come into play when your exaggerating features and caricaturing the nation’s first black president. Is Press right about this Darkow cartoon being “grotesque and racist,” or is he just being too sensitive to race and the art of a political cartoonist to exaggerate the features of his subject, in this case President Obama?