I’m starting to enjoy Nathan as a cartoon character! I think I’ll use him some more in my local, Nashville Scene cartoons (the newest cartoon is below).
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This is my cartoon on the Tennessee shooting tragedy. I didn’t think I could do anything more than the flowers and flags I’m seeing on the news, so I went with flags at half mast. This is probably a local cartoon, since many readers around the country won’t know the Tennessee flag, still, it is a local tragedy deserving of a local cartoon.
This reminds us that Tennessee is part of a big, ugly world.
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Tennessee Shooting Memorial
Today on CNN there is a constant barrage of Trump-bashing in response to Trump’s John McCain-bashing. The TV pundits seem sure that Trump’s words have doomed his presidential campaign; I’m not so sure, and as a cartoonist I enjoy having Trump around.
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Donald Trump Tongue Noose
Here’s my new cartoon for my local, altie-weekly, the Nashville Scene. Confederate monuments are under fire throughout the South and I’m piling on.
Want to see me make a rare speech and Powerpoint presentation about my cartoons? Come to this in Thousands Oaks, California on Saturday, July 25th at 5:00pm.
Talk: By Daryl Cagle, Cartoon Artist and Syndicate Owner , July 25th 5:00, light refreshments
Where: Janss Market Place, Suite 193 C
Admission is free, donations accepted.
Exhibition: “The Art of Politics ” – Then and Now”
Presented by the Conejo Valley Art Museum:
Through August 9, 2015
The cartoons, by Artists that you have been seeing in the Editorial Page of your daily newspapers will be silent auctioned at the Conejo Valley Art Museum beginning July 25th through August 8th.
Exhibit ” The Art of Politics ─Then and Now” through Sunday, August 9th.
Silent Auction Date: July 25th through August 9th.
Republicans are very concerned that bakers have the freedom to refuse service to gay couples who want to buy wedding cakes. Now that marriage equality is the law of the land, our attention is turned to the poor, abused bakers.
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Freedom Bakery Tall
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Freedom Bakery Wide
My latest local, altie Nashville Scene cartoon is about Nashville’s statue of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who fought defending Nashville from the Union Army, who was the founder of the Ku Kux Klan and the first “Grand Wizard of the KKK.” The hideous, privately owned, 25 foot tall, fiberglass statue is a local embarrassment as it can be clearly viewed from the freeway, surrounded by Confederate Battle Flags.
The statue is funny on a number of levels: the general has blue jewels for eyeballs; he has a golden pony without knees or eyeballs; and the image of Nathan Bedford Forrest looks nothing like what the general actually looked like. The statue’s sculptor was once the attorney for James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Local officials have been trying to find ways to get rid of the eyesore, or to cover it up. One solution was to have the state of Tennessee plant fast growing trees next to the freeway to block the view of the statue. The owner of the plot responded with a plan to raise the fiberglass statue onto stilts, so that it could still be seen above the trees.
Gotta love Nashville.
