Like many cartoonists, I’m sad that I’ll never get the chance to draw North Korea’s nutty leader Kim Jong Il again. Here’s my cartoon about his death:
Kim Jong Il was great to draw. I was able to do this caricature of him featuring the back of his head, and everyone could still get who I was drawing. You can’t do that with many characters:
Kim Jong Il was a pain in the rear for many Presidents. The most recent of course was President Obama:
A lot of times, it seemed like Kim Jong Il was toying with the world. Having a nuclear arsenal certainly gave him some leverage:
Most of the time, I think this was his attitude towards everyone except Elvis:
He was also a torn in the side of the Bush administration, who tried to reach out to the wacky leader on more than one occasion:
His enduring legacy – a nutjob with crazy hair in charge of a country with nuclear weapons. Sounds like the plot of an Adam Sandler movie: