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Presidential Debate Number Three Open Thread

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date October 22, 2012

This long election season is finally winding down, and tonight is the final Presidential debate between opponents Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Since our readers have enjoyed the previous open threads we’ve done for earlier debates, here’s an open thread for tonight’s event for everyone to “debate the debate” LIVE.

To start the discussion, here’s my new cartoon about the state of the race. It seems like Obama and Romney are all locked up. Will tonight’s debate change things?

Who do you think will win? Are you rooting for anyone? What do you hope they discuss? Will Biden say something crazy? Comment away below!

Tags Barack Obama, cartoonist, debate, Featured, Mitt Romney, presidential debate

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An Homage to Gary McCoy

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date October 21, 2012

I ripped off our ultra-conservative cartoonist Gary McCoy with my new debate cartoon. See Gary’s cartoon below mine. I love you, Gary.

Tags Barack Obama, boxing, cartoonist, Cartoons, Fox News, Gary McCoy, mainstream media, media, Mitt Romney

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Cartoon for Last and Next Debates

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date October 20, 2012

Tags Barack Obama, boxing, debates, Fox News, Gary McCoy, Mitt Romney, presidential campaign

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South African Political Cartoonist Fired For Being Too Political

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date October 18, 2012

South African political cartoonist Jeremy Nell, whose cartoons I syndicate in our Cagle Cartoons package, was fired from his job at The New Age newspaper for being too political.

“The New Age‘s editorial stance became increasingly out of sync with mine,” Nell wrote on his blog. “This was particularly apparent when the current editor recently told me that he doesn’t “like cartoons [that make] political judgements or statements.” My satire can’t really function under such constraints.”

The move has been greeted with lots of outrage from observers that suspect the paper is editorially aligned with the President Jacob Zuma and ruling African National Congress, someone Nell (and other South African cartoonists) have been harshly critical of.

One noted Zumba critic, the great South African cartoonist Zapiro, drew a cartoon today in The Times in support of Nell. Zapiro famously draws Zuma with a showerhead coming out of his head, after the African President claimed taking a shower after having unprotected sex helped cut the risk of contracting HIV.

Its nice to see professional cartooning camaraderie in such a public venue.

Tags cartoonist, Featured, Jacob Zuma, Jeremy Nell, Jerm, South Africa, The New Age, Zapiro

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Zyglis on Drawing the Election: ‘Not Enough Days in the Week’

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date October 18, 2012

Here a cool video of our talented young cartoonist Adam Zyglis, the staff cartoonist at the Buffalo News. He was interviewed on CNN by Karin Caifa during this years Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) convention that took place in Washington, D.C. last month.

Check our Adam’s terrific cartoons here.

Tags Adam Zyglis, Barack Obama, Buffalo News, cartoonist, video

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Big Bird the Media & Binders Full of Women

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date October 18, 2012

Tags Barack Obama, Best Political Cartoons, binders full of women, Mit Romney, Mitt Romney, PBS, politics, president, presidential debates, Republican candidates, sesame street, television

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Interview With Conservative Cartoonist Eric Allie

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date October 17, 2012

Recently, I traveled to France to attend the St. Just le Martel editorial cartoon festival. I brought with me our brilliant, knuckle-dragging conservative cartoonist Eric Allie, who seemed like a strange, wild beast to the mostly-lefty French cartoonists.

I had the chance to sit down and interview Eric about his cartooning style and ideas, and I poked and prodded him about all those crazy conservative tropes he enjoys using in his cartoons, like labeling the media the MSM (I actually had to Google it to find out what it meant because I wasn’t living in the right-wing bubble):

Tags cartoonist, conservative, conservative political cartoonist, Eric Allie

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Presidential Debate Number Two Open Thread

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date October 16, 2012

Since we have so many devoted readers with as many opinions about politics as our cartoonists (and since it went so well during the first Presidential Debate), here’s an open thread for all of you to have at it LIVE during tonight’s Vice Presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan.

To start the discussion, here’s a funny pre-debate cartoon by Nate Beeler of the Columbus Dispatch (check out all our cool Debate cartoons here).

Who do you think will win? Are you rooting for anyone? What do you hope they discuss? Will Biden say something crazy? Comment away below!

Tags Barack Obama, cartoonist, debate, Mitt Romney, presidential

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Farewell to NBCNews.com/msnbc.com

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date October 12, 2012

For the past six years we’ve enjoyed a partnership with msnbc.com (which recently changed its name to NBCNews.com) and for six years before that, with Slate.com when it was part of the Microsoft Network – all in all, twelve years with Microsoft and MSN.com. I regret to write that our partnership has come to an end.

I was the official “editorial cartoonist” for Slate.com, msnbc.com and NBCNews.com. Of-course, all of the cartoonists that work with us through our Cagle Cartoons syndicate and Politicalcartoons.com were featured on the MSN.com sites, including slide shows on news topics of the day on msnbc.com, the Today Show site and NBC Sports; we did a cartoon week in review and maintained a “CartoonBlog.”

Recently, msnbc.com changed ownership to be run by NBC, and NBC itself recently changed ownership. It isn’t usual these days for cartoons to be cut to save costs, but we were cut for editorial reasons. The reason I was given for our departure was “the new management wants nothing to do with cartoons.” Msnbc.com/NBCNews.com has never had an opinion section, or other opinion content, so it is disappointing, but not entirely unexpected.

Readers of our Cagle.com site will see very few changes – the NBCNews.com logo is gone from our header and will be gone from my attribution in my future cartoons. Our site will look the same as always; we’ll continue our syndication business as always at CagleCartoons.com and Politicalcartoons.com.

Our editors at MSN/Slate/msnbc/NBCNews were wonderful to work with all these years; I’ve appreciated their support for our cartoonists and our art form. They loved what we did, let us do what we wanted and were happy with what we wanted to do – the perfect editors! They were great. I miss them already.

Tags cagle.com, caglecartoons.com, cartoonist, Daryl Cagle, editorial cartoons, msn.com, msnbc.com, NBCNews.com, news media, political cartoons, politicalcartoons.com

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De Rosier’s Final Cartoon For The Albany Times Union

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date October 12, 2012

Today on his blog, Albany Times-Union cartoonist John de Rosier filed his final cartoon for the paper. de Rosier was notified earlier this week that he was being laid off due to budget cuts, along with full-time photographer Phil Kamrass. At least the paper let him go out in style, unlike Clay Jones, whose final cartoon was killed by his editor at the Free Lance Star.

Tim O’Brien, the president of the Albany Newspaper Guild, has a nice blog post up about the lost of de Rosier’s cartooning job at the Times-Union, and its larger implications to a newspaper that just earned a Newspaper of Distinction Award from the Associated Press:

A distinctive art form is being steadily destroyed by people who look purely at revenue. It’s hard to say that an editorial cartoonist generates a certain amount of income for the newspaper, just as it is hard to say how much any single reporter or photographer does. But eliminating the cartoonist sends a message to readers: We are taking away something you value, something that makes your newspaper distinctive, something you cannot get anywhere else. We value your newspaper less, and you should too.

It’s a terrible message, and it comes at a price that may not be immediately apparent but will cost newspapers dearly in the long run.

“We know staff cuts can hurt our product,” wrote Times Union editor Rex Smith in an email to employees, “but we also know that we’re working smarter and more efficiently than we ever have before, and we recognize the promise of journalism in the digital age.

It’s a shame Smith doesn’t recognize the importance and promise political cartoons can offer to newspapers online in the digital age.

Tags Albany Times Union, cartoonist, John de Rosier

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European Cartoonists React to Unexpected Nobel Win

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date October 12, 2012

In a surprise move, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the European Union for their role in promoting peace and democracy over the last sixty years. But given the current state of Europe’s economy, many across the continent think the timing of this award couldn’t be worse.

We have lots of European cartoonists that contribute to our site, so I thought I’d turn it over to them to get their thoughts about the EU winning the award…