DarylCagle.comThe news repeats itself and our old, school shooting cartoons are new again with every new tragedy. I dusted off some of the “evergreen” school shooting cartoons that never seem to go out of style.
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Here are my favorite Ukraine Flag cartoons, starting with three of my own. The first is my memorial cartoon for Ukraine’s civilian deaths.
This one is on America’s support for Ukraine …
This is my first Ukraine flag cartoon, drawn 28 years ago in 1984 for the Muppets and Hasbro/Playskool. I claim this as the first Ukraine flag cartoon! (Considering that Ukraine was founded as an independent nation in 1991, 21 years ago.)
Here are more favorites by the CagleCartoonists …
This Picasso inspired cartoon is by Emad Hajjaj, from Jordan.
This Van Gogh inspired cartoon is by Emad’s brother, Osama Hajjaj, from Jordan.
This one is by Ed Wexler, from Los Angeles.
This one is by Kap, from Barcelona, Spain.
This one is by Hajo, from the Netherlands.
… and this one is by Jeff Koterba, from Nebraska.
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This was another frustrating week for editorial cartoonists as editors preferred light cartoons to the many, hard hitting cartoons about about Russia’s evil invasion of Ukraine.
Here are the cartoons that editors chose to print – for the seven days ending March 5th, 2022. Congratulations to Dave Whamond who took the #1 spot this week and was also the most reprinted cartoonist of the week. And kudos to Jeff Koterba who has two cartoons in the Top Ten.
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Dave Whamond took the #1 most reprinted spot, by a wide margin.
Jeff Koterba took second place with his first of two in the Top Ten.
John Cole took third place.
Daryl Cagle (that’s me) nabbed 4th place.
John Darkow claims the five-spot.
Randy Enos came in sixth.
RJ Matson nabs seventh place.
Bob Englehart took 8th place.
Bruce Plante takes 9th place.
Jeff Koterba wraps it up at number ten with his second cartoon in the Top Ten.
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This is my new one about a voter’s daydream …
I had some mixed feelings about this one because it is a little simple and odd for an editorial cartoon, but I like cartoons with character and body language, which is just about all that this cartoon consists of.
The CagleCartoonists are doing great work recently! Here are my favorites from the past few days.
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We’re suffering from crazy heat in California now, from a worldwide high of 130ºF (43C) a couple of days ago, to 109º at my house. Today it was only 106º (41C) at my house. Dozens of major fires are popping up all over the state, sparked by lightening.
At the same time we have the most coronavirus cases and deaths, which have largely shut down the economy, threatening small businesses and newspapers, who have lost ads from suffering small businesses and cancelled events. So this is my cartoon.
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Updated August 24, 2020
Here’s my cartoon today in USA Today.
I draw lots of California flag cartoons. Our bear is a gift to cartoonists. Here are three more of my California fire bear cartoons. Tough times in California.
President Trump wants to stop any federal assistance to charred California, because the state should “rake more” leaves.
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We’re having an alarming increase in coronavirus cases in Southern California. Restaurants are closed. Hospitals are filling up. Masks are mandatory as Trumpies demand their rights to go maskless. Fox News and President Trump tell us not to believe our lying eyes.
This California Bear cartoon seems especially apt right now. I drew this one a few years ago as California was suffering from an economic malaise and a variety of other problems that seem trivial now. I dusted this oldie off, gave it a fresh coat of paint and it is better now than ever, so I sent it out to newspapers again.
Our past economic problems seem quaint now. As I was rummaging around in my bear flag oldies I found the next one about California drowning in a sea of red ink. Cartoons like this don’t travel well. Outside of the USA, people don’t know our California flag, and they don’t know what “red ink” means (it means debt). To freshen this oldie up I added some coronavirus balls to the drowning bear in the red-ink red-stripe.
Back in the old days, California was drowning in red ink because of unfunded pension obligations and poor financial decisions by our irresponsible elected officials; the good old days. I exaggerate so much in my cartoons that my drawings for mildly bad times seem just as appropriate when times are much worse –there’s a cartoon “silver-lining” that we can all be grateful for.
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My cartoon today depicts the bear on the California flag pulling down a statue of Junipero Serra, the controversial Catholic saint who oversaw the opening of nine missions in colonial California. Serra participated in the Spanish Inquisition and enslaved native Americans, imprisoning them at his missions. Statues of Serra have been vandalized recently as many protests toppling statues commemorating racist historical figures have swept the nation, and the world, in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.
The California bear is something of an “everyman” character. I like seeing the movement to purge symbols honoring racist, historical figures; perhaps it is a bit of wishful thinking on my part to see California’s “everyman” tearing down Serra since there is quite a bit of support for defending the many Serra statues that dot our state like a pox. President Trump is using an executive order to boost penalties for defacing racist, historical monuments. My depiction of the California flag today is more a symbol of hope that these protests succeed than than a depiction of today’s reality.
The statue is based on one located in San Juan Capistrano that was relocated recently to protect it from protesters. I lifted Serra’s robe a bit so that I could get some Saddam Hussein action going with his ankles.
When I was in third grade I was required to build a model of a California mission and I was taught a false, fairy tale story about Padre Serra. Thirty years later my kids went through the same thing in school. California students have been required to build those models and have been fed a whitewashed version of history for many decades. That may be changing now as the protests continue. Maybe our “everyman” bear will finally tear down that statue!
Scroll down to see some more of my favorite “everyman” California bears.
California always has a drought …
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Sometimes the drought is worse …
Even when it floods, we still have a drought …
We have fires too. And heroic firemen …
And we have legal marijuana …
And California was one of the first states to legalize gay marriage …
And president Trump doesn’t like California’s auto emissions standards …
See two more of my California Bear Flag cartoons, about coronavirus, here!
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Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May has been battered by Parliament as the Brexit deadline looms.
Stars are the universal cartoon symbol for pain. Star swirling around the head symbolize headache and dizziness. The European Union flag is great for pain and dizziness and is something that most cartoonists have drawn. Here are some of mine. The first one is then-president Chirac of France from back in 2005 –I don’t quite remember why he had an EU headache back then, but the EU has been causing headaches for many years.
This bull with an EU headache went with some euro-stock-market troubles some time ago.
Here’s Germany’s Angela Merkel having a Greek, euro-economic headache …
Here’s one from brilliant Canadian cartoonist, Dale Cummings …
These two are from Martin “Shooty” Sutovec, my pal from Slovakia …
These two are from my Bulgarian cartoonist buddy, Christo Komarnitsky.
This one is by Kap from Barcelona, Spain …
Somehow I don’t think this EU headache will be ending anytime soon.
It may just get much worse.
No matter what garbage comes out each day, Trump just sweeps it under the patriotic rug so it becomes invisible to his supporters.
I drew a similar cartoon some years ago, when I was angry with Obama for sweeping our civil rights under the constitution-rug with his massive system of surveillance on everyday folks …
Sometimes it seems like only the rugs change.
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… and this phone case …
We’ve gotten requests for framed prints for a long time. We have some nice ones in store.cagle.com now …
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My blue, home state of California has taken the lead in pushing back against President Trump, from dozens of lawsuits to legislation about taxes, the environment and immigration among many other things. Trump doesn’t like push-back and California’s “sanctuary cities” really make Trump mad – that’s why I drew that face-off.
The fires around me in Southern California are terrible this week. The skies are brown, the ash falls like snow, and the firemen are heroes. Here’s my California flag cartoon on the firefighters.
There’s lots of frightening stuff going on outside! Stay safe!
Sorry to be away from doing the videos for so long! Yesterday I streamed my process drawing this one and you can see the whole thing in real time in the YouTube videos below. Here’s the angry face-off between the Trump-USA and Mexican eagles.
The video below shows me drawing this one, from scratch, on paper, with a pencil.
In the next video I’m coloring the cartoon in Photoshop …
Yes! The beard is gone for the foreseeable future! (I know that is shocking – it’s still me … really.)
