Here’s another batch of TRUE cartoons about KIDS!
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Here’s another batch of my syndicated TRUE cartoons about Health Statistics!
The new on TV often doesn’t match up well with the news that actually affects most people – by that measure, I think theft epidemic is the biggest story in the USA right now, with hospitals filled to overflowing across the nation. Also, it is an excuse to draw something different than the rest of the pack of editorial cartoonists who are obsessed with Trump every day.
It is so nice to have an opportunity to draw a nasty monster. I thought about drawing a “flu bug” insect, like the Zika cartoon below …
But the Zika epidemic was transmitted by roaming mosquitos. My “flu bug” looks a bit too much like a reptile.
The image at the right, from Wikipedia, shows what the “flu bug” actually looks like. I don’t find this image to be very interesting; it has no eyes, or legs, or teeth, or snot. If is was an amoeba shape I could take some license with the shape to make arms and legs, but no.
Reptiles are threatening, so, what the hell. The flu is trouble for everybody, including me.
President Trump pulled the funding rug out from under ObamaCare, which may not have been failing before, but is much more likely to fail now. Trump supporters claim that this is to light a fire under Congress to fix the problem – more likely, it will just light a fire under the healthcare system, leaving it scorched – like a marshmallow over the campfire.
I love the caduceus symbol for medicine, with the two snakes and the little wings at the top of a pole – it is a wonderful cartoon cliché that allows me to do healthcare cartoons without words. As healthcare poses existential political issues that divide the Republicans, I’ve had plenty of opportunities to bash the elephants with caduceuses.
Obama took a bite out of the Republicans by pushing ObamaCare through congress without a single Republican vote.
Obama took a moment to gloat.
Republicans can’t agree on healthcare, and likely won’t get anything done, leading Trump to blow the system up. Perhaps congress will be more willing to clean up a big healthcare mess of Trump’s making; they can always blame it on Obama.
More likely, I think healthcare will be the issue that sinks the Republican party.
Today we saw the TrumpCare/RyanCare Repeal and Replace bill go down in flames – or poop. Here’s my cartoon.
This is based on a cartoon I drew in 2009 when President Obama and the Democrats were pushing Obamacare through Congress.
Want to see me draw this one in real time? Check out the video below …
And here’s the video of me coloring the cartoon in Adobe Photoshop on my Wacom Cintiq …
I love those little lemmings who all commit mass-suicide by leaping off of cliffs in the Arctic. The lemmings metaphor is a standard for editorial cartoonists and I’ve drawn them a few times myself. Here is today’s cartoon with the Republican elephants running off of the TrumpCare cliff.
Gotta love those lemmings. Here’s one I drew for the “Arab Spring” revolution in Egypt …
Seven years ago when congress was debating ObamaCare, I drew this Democrat lemmings cartoon …
This is one of my most popular and most plagiarized cartoons, about graduate lemmings and unemployment …
I drew these lemmings in 2007 when we had the mortgage and housing collapse …
I’m sure I’ll be drawing plenty more lemmings during the Trump administration. Want to see me draw the new TrumpCare lemmings cartoon in real time? Watch the video below. You can watch it at 1.5 speed which makes it 150% more interesting!
And here is the video of my coloring the GOP lemmings cartoon in Photoshop on my Wacom Cintiq …
The Democrats worked on passing Obamacare for a year and we got lots of cartoons with the medical symbol, the caduseus. Republicans don’t have so much time to plan, they are swallowing healthcare whole without chewing – and it is caduceus time all over again! Here’s my Republican healthcare debate cartoon …
I drew this as a live-stream on Twitch. See me in the video below as I start with a blank sheet of paper and no layout in mind.
The next video show me coloring this one, along with tomorrow’s cartoon about Trump and Twitter …
Here’s my cartoon about Republican deliberations as they craft an Obamacare replacement bill, in secret.
This is a cartoon that I drew many years ago, when the Republicans were fighting about some subject that I don’t remember now (I added the Obamacare title yesterday and reposted the cartoon). It seem the Republicans are united when we have a president who is a Democrat, but a Republican president seems to get them fighting with each other again.
American donkey and elephant characters, as representations of our political parties, is a mainstay of American editorial cartoonists, making our cartoons difficult for foreign readers to understand. Since Trump is often at odds with other Republicans, cartoonists have been drawing fewer elephants recently. There was a time when we could count on Republicans to oppose deficit spending and a static list of issues that don’t register high on the Trump agenda, so the elephant character is hard to define now, and even harder to associate with Trump. But when Republicans fight with each other, I don’t have to worry much about definitions.
With so many Trump and Hillary cartoons, for so long, we’ve had a nice, refreshing break with the Mylan EpiPen pricing scandal. There have been a lot of these cartoons as the story is so outrageous, jacking the price of EpiPen from $100 to $600, screwing hundreds of thousands of people who suffer from severe allergies to common threats like peanuts and bee stings. The drug company, Mylan, raised the salary of their CEO by millions and, in response to criticism, introduced a new “generic” version of their EpiPen for “only” $300.
We have a great collection of EpiPen cartoons! Come take a look!
Watch me draw this cartoon in real time in the YouTube video below – and in the video below that, watch me color the cartoon in Adobe Photoshop on my Wacom Cintiq.
Here’s the coloring …
This is the Zika mosquito hitch-hiking from place to place.
Here he is in black and white. I usually do a special version for grayscale, rather than just gray scaling the color art.
In the video below you can see me draw this bad boy. I thought long and hard about whether to put a “Zika” label on the mosquito, and I made the manly decision to forego the label.
In the video below you can see me coloring the mosquito in Photoshop. It should open 14:40 into the video, that’s no mistake, it just takes out the time. I didn’t edit this one!
3/21/16 update: Here’s my mosquito as it appeared today in the Ouest France Newspaper, France’s highest circulation newspaper. Thanks to my buddy Kianoush Ramezani and his united sketches.org foundation that organizes this stuff. I’m impressed that they put my photo and bio alongside the cartoon.
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