DarylCagle.comMerry Christmas everyone! As we kick back to enjoy the holiday, here’s our gift to you – five funny Christmas cartoons I guarantee you’ll enjoy more than Mom’s fruitcake! (View our entire collection of Christmas cartoons here)
Merry Christmas to all our readers! As we begin to wrap up another year and prepare to dive in to glasses of egg nog, I thought it might be fun to look back at some of the Christmas-related cartoons I’ve drawn over the years.
Here’s this year’s cartoon. Figured it’s what’s on the mind of a lot of Republicans this Holiday season:
Here’s one featuring Obamaclaus:
I drew this one back in 2006, after Iraq became the debacle we all know and love now:
Keep you eyes peeled on those Salvation Army bell ringers. You never know:
This was my Christmas cartoon back in 2003, when Bush gave away everything, including the kitchen sink, to be re-elected:
Here’s a golden Cagle oldie from way back in 2000, back when I was still drawing cartoons for the Honolulu Advertiser (now known as the Honolulu Star-Advertiser after being bought by its cross-town rival):
Every Friday, we collect the best political cartoons of the week and stuff them into one big, glorious slideshow.
So just relax and catch up on a week’s worth of news with our Best Cartoons of the Week slideshow.
It’s Christmas time – the season of giving. Unfortunately, the only thing we’re getting from Congress is angina. While everyone agrees that extending the payroll tax holiday for a year is a good thing, leave it to our elected representatives to find a way to muck it up.
Here are 5 funny cartoons, summing up what all of us think about these silly political games we have to endure. Click here to view all our Payroll Tax Cut cartoons.
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:
Every Friday, we collect the best political cartoons of the week and stuff them into one big, glorious slideshow. So just relax and catch up on a week’s worth of news with our Best Cartoons of the Week slideshow.
What do cartoonists think of all those crazy, distracted drivers out there behind the wheel? Check out our Distracted Driving cartoon collection to find out.
There have been reports around the Web that charges were dropped against my daughter, Susie. Unfortunately, the reports are untrue. Susie sent me this for the blog:
My arrest while covering Occupy Oakland has taught me a great deal about the dehumanizing power of law enforcement and the presumption of guilt in detention of political protesters, about the power of bureaucracy versus the power of the human spirit.
I didn’t also expect a lesson in media literacy, sinking standards and the flow of information.
Following my arrest on November 3 at Occupy Oakland, where I have been reporting for several outlets since October 10, I have worked very hard to get my charges dropped. This has been a long and complicated process. Ultimately the only thing that got the Oakland Police Department’s attention as a formal letter from the Society of Professional Journalists Freedom of Information committee. A week or so after they sent it, I received a call from the OPD Public Information Officer telling me that she had spoken with the investigator, who would not be pursuing my misdemeanor.
I have yet to receive anything in writing, nor have I received verbal confirmation of my dropped charges from either the Oakland Police Department leadership or the Alameda County District Attorney. I’m still in this gray area waiting stage where I don’t really know what’s happening. Things could certainly be worse and even more vague for me. I remain confident that because the PIO has taken it upon herself to lobby on my behalf, I am likely to eventually be “P2-ed” with my charges dropped — but my arrest record remaining.
Still, because of the lack of clarity, I chose to keep the story mostly quiet, but for one email to Mediabistro’s Fishbowl LA — an email which was selectively quoted, and then became the basis for several more posts in the comics and media press from authors who could not be bothered to email me and ask, Hey Susie, what’s up?
Occupy is a difficult story to cover, in large part because of its decentralized nature. There are very rarely clear answers and clear people to try to get them from. There have been many times I needed comment from someone who wasn’t willing to give me their full name let alone contact information, many times where I wished all I could do was email someone and ask, Hey, what’s up? It’s unfortunate to see that standards in web journalism have sunk so low that no one could bother to do that for me.
So for next time (though I surely hope there won’t be a next time): it’s [email protected].
– Susie Cagle
Read Susie’s blog here: http://www.thisiswhatconcernsme.com And read Susie’s illustrated report here: http://www.good.is/post/an-illustrated-history-of-occupy-oakland/
