Syrian Obedience School
Are we intervening in Syria yet?
Syria: My latest al-Assad cartoons
Violence in Syria has spiked in recent weeks as President Bashar al-Assad continues a bloody battle against an uprising attempting to remove him from power.
Here’s my most recent cartoon about Syria’s bloody dictator…
So far, al-Assad has lived up to the motto “like father, like son”…
He’ll stop killing his own people one of these days…
Maybe Apple can help his murderous regime stay in power…
al-Assad has certainly survived longer in power than most would have thought. Here’s a cartoon I drew back in 2005 after the U.S.-led collation invaded Iraq to depose Saddam…
Bashar Assad Paints Syria
The Dead Crowd
I’ve been drawing crowds of dead people lately. Like most cartoonists, I hate drawing crowd scenes. Back when I was a cartoon illustrator I drew lots of crowd scenes; art directors seem to love crowd scenes – readers do too. Readers often send me ideas for cartoons, and the typical idea involves drawing a crowd, or opposing armies, or a “sky filled with helicopters” or something similarly painful to draw.
But, if you kill everyone in the crowd, crowds are much easier to draw. There are no expressions, or body language. When I spend too much time drawing a dead crowd, I find myself thinking about the dead crowd cartoons again and again – maybe that’s unhealthy. In January I drew this cartoon about the Marines who peed on dead Taliban fighters.
This week I drew this one on Bashar Assad …
Now I’m plagued by thinking of “standing in the middle of a dead crowd” cartoons. Like this one …
Now I want to draw President Obama in the middle of the dead crowd saying, “Things seem to have quietened down now, after my apology.” Maybe I will.
I know I’m going to keep thinking about this.