DarylCagle.comLast night, the world was shocked with the news that Steve Jobs, co-founder and former chairman of Apple, died at the age of 56. Jobs has revolutionized the world and become a tech icon, and in recent years he gave us items like the iPod, iPhone, iPad and iCloud.
Cartoonists remember the legacy of Steve Jobs in our Steve Jobs RIP cartoon collection.
RELATED: Vote on the best Steve Jobs obituary cartoon in today’s Toon-Off.
Poor Bank of America. The bailout recipient has drawn the ire of many critics by instituting a new $5 monthly fee on customers who use their debit card to make purchases starting next year.
Check out what cartoonists think of these new fees by viewing our Big, Bad Bank of America cartoon collection.
Is anyone else sick of the Chris Christie “will he or won’t he ” dance? Maybe not if if your presidential hopes lie in either Rick Perry or Mitt Romney beating Barack Obama.
It was a busy week of news. Catch up and laugh at the same time with our big Week in Political Cartoons slideshow.
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi marks his 75th birthday today, but as our cartoonists are quick to note, the notorious horn-dog has very little to celebrate. From his own personal legal woes to the possibility of Italy being swallowed by Europe’s ongoing debt crisis, one wonders how much longer Italians can tolerate Berlusconi and his bunga bunga parties.
We’ve had a lot of funny cartoons about Berlusconi and his antics come in over the years from our foreign contributors. Here are some of the best:
Will he or won’t he? New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has repeatedly said he’s not running for president, yet the GOP faithful continue to beg the Garden State Republican to jump in and save them from their slate of lackluster candidates.
What do cartoonists think about the Christie’s presidential dance? Check out our Christie for President cartoon slideshow to find out.
On this day back in 1840, Thomas Nast, the father of the American Cartoon, was born in Landau, Germany. He came to the United States as a young man and quickly became one of the country’s most influential cartoonists, drawing for Harper’s Weekly and becoming a celebrity in the process. Following his death on December 7, 1902, Thomas Nast’s obituary in Harper’s Weekly stated, “He has been called, perhaps not with accuracy, but with substantial justice, the Father of American Caricature.”
Nast’s drawings were instrumental in the downfall of Tammany Hall’s William “Boss” Tweed, who so feared Nast’s cartoons that he unsuccessfully attempted to bribe the cartoonist to stop. Tweed said famously, “Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures!”
Tweed was eventually convicted for stealing between $40 million and $200 million from New York City taxpayers through political corruption.
Nast is perhaps best known for his political cartoon that first showed the GOP as an elephant, and the Democratic Party as a donkey, symbols that both parties (and cartoonists) use to this day.
He also created the bearded, plump image of Santa Claus we recognize today, for the cover of the 1862 Harper’s Weekly Christmas season cover. At the time, most depictions of Santa Claus showed jolly St. Nick as a tall, thin man.
I always laugh at this cartoon by my friend Sandy Huffaker, about the taste of editors and publishers when it comes to cartoons today:
Class warfare was the name of the game this week. Critics used the phrase to criticize President Obama’s new jobs plan, due to its call to increase taxes on the wealthy. Maybe it’s the reason Mark Zuckerberg is punishing us with all these new Facebook changes.
To see what the news looks like through the eyes of our cartoonists, check out our big Week in Political Cartoons slideshow.
Stupid Facebook! As most of us have just gotten use to all the previous changes, here they are again updating our “user experience” to entice us to put our entire life on their web servers!
(Did I mention we’re on Facebook, and how much we love it? Don’t forget to “Like” us.)
To find out what cartoonists think of Mark Zuckerburg’s recent updates, check out our Facebook Changes cartoon slideshow
