Iran, NASA, Melania and Trump! Top ten cartoons of the week
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Thank you if Scotland Votes to Stay
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Smart ass Watch
Public opinion polls show the vast majority of Americans support our jumping into the war in Syria and Iraq. No wonder. TV news nowadays is constant cheerleading for war. I wonder if cable news is as successful in selling us adult diapers, catheters, supplemental health insurance and gold. See our Obama and ISIS or ISIL or IS or Islamic State cartoons here:http://www.assets.cagle.com/legacy/obama-and-isis/
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Popular Support for War
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Obama Squeezed into the World Plane
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Obama’s Lousy Seat
President Obama’s metaphorical airline seat is a lousy one right now. Here’s my newest cartoon.
Most people see my cartoons in black and white in the newspapers. I like the cartoons better in black and white – particularly if I do them with no gray tone, just line. Here is what most people see in the newspaper.
I know I should have drawn a Ray Rice cartoon, and I was going to draw something similar to the one that Steve Sack drew below … but I was too slow. And Steve’s cartoon was better than the one was would have drawn, so if I was a little faster, I would have been embarrassed.
The other thing I should have drawn, but I didn’t, was something on Apple’s big product announcement. I put this Nate Beeler oldie up on Twitter and it went viral. Some things never change, from one Apple product announcement to the next.
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Obama Squeezed into the World Plane
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The Media’s Push for War
During the run up to George W. Bush’s war in Iraq, I drew a bunch of cartoons that I regret, supporting the rush to war. One of my biggest regrets was believing the reporting of Judy Miller and the New York Times about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. I won’t make that mistake again – I have no trust left for the New York Times and when the media all jumps in pushing for war, my inclination is to push back. Here’s my latest on the media press for war.
I seem to be all alone on this. I notice that just about all of our other cartoonists are jumping on the war-bandwagon – even the liberal doves who I would expect to resist. When the war-drums play, it seems that everyone wants to dance. See our Obama and ISIS/ISIL cartoons here.
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Media Pushes Toward War
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Ukraine, Putin and Obama at the Beach
I collected comic books as a kid – thousands of comic books. The Charles Atlas ad at the right was burned into my brain. The ad didn’t influence me to exercise (I’m too lazy for that) but it motivated me to draw the cartoon above, with Obama, Ukraine and Putin at the beach.
Ukraine is a tough metaphor because we don’t really have any good visual icons or characters that scream “Ukraine” at a glance, so I’ve taken to depicting Ukraine as a pudgy, braided, blond chick.
She is wearing a bathing suit in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, but I’m sure American readers won’t notice that. In the drawing below, she is with caveman-Putin, wearing traditional, Ukrainian garb …
Here she is again, in the same clothes, getting robbed by Putin while Obama stands by …
Putin has his own traditional garb – he doesn’t wear a shirt.
My last Charles Atlas metaphor cartoon is below, from more than ten years ago during the run-up George W. Bush’s war in Iraq. Things don’t change much as we’re seeing the media push war on us all over again.
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The Insult that Made a MAN out of “Mac”
I collected comic books as a kid – thousands and thousands of comic books – and the famous Charles Atlas ad is etched into my brain. The ad wasn’t enough to make me actually exercise, but it inspired my recent cartoon about Putin, Obama and the Ukraine, below.
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Ukraine 98 Pound Weakling
