Democrat Toyota Prius Crash
Super Bowl Cartoon Slideshow
It’s that time of year again, Super Bowl Sunday is upon us! Time to eat horrible food and make disgusting man grunts as the Colts and the Saints pay some meaningless game to fill time between funny commercials.
Anyway, to check out our collection of funny Super Bowl Cartoons, just click on the funny Steve Kelley cartoon below.
Come See Me in Colombia!
I don’t show my face in public much, but I’ll be traveling to Colombia in a couple of weeks, and I’ll be at some cool public events for editorial cartoon fans.
There is a rather ambitious meeting of cartoonists from around the world in Bogotá, called Foro Internacional de caricaturistas por la paz y la libertad de opinión 2010 ““ that’s the poster for the conference at the right. I’m looking forward to meeting a long, impressive list of international editorial cartoonists. Want to see me? I should have some time to chat and do some sketches. Here are the public events where I’ll be:
Monday, February 15th, 6:00 PM at the Luis Angel Arango Library, Centro de Eventos, Calle 11 No. 4-14
International Cartoonists Conference Round Table Opening; Topic: Free Speech, the Cartoonists For Peace Challenge
Participants: Plantu (France), Ana Von Reuber (Argentina), Kichka (Israel), Kroll (Belgium), Tignous (France), Vladdo (Colombia), Daryl Cagle (USA)
Tuesday February 16th, 3:00pm at the Auditorium Hemiciclo, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, Carrera 4 # 22-61
Msnbc.com’s Daryl Cagle Talks About Political Cartoons
I’ll be giving a talk about my work and political cartooning in the USA.
Wednesday, February 17th at Rosario University, Calle 14 # 6-25
Round table Cartoonists and Conflicts in the World
Participants: Bonil (Ecuador), Rayma (Venezuela) Trond (Bolivia), Kichka (Israel), Kroll (Belgium), Vladdo (Colombia), Daryl Cagle (USA)
Thursday, February 18th, at Centro Cultural Biblioteca LuÃs EchavarrÃa Villegas-EAFIT University Carrera 49 No. 7 Sur-50 – Avenida Las Vegas, MedellÃn
Msnbc.com’s Daryl Cagle Talks About Political Cartoons
I’ll be traveling to MedellÃn this day to give a talk about my work and political cartooning in the USA.
Friday, Febuary 19th, at Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, Centro Calle San Juan de Dios No. 3-121, Cartagena
Msnbc.com’s Daryl Cagle Talks About Political Cartoons
I’ll be traveling to Cartagena this day to give a talk about my work and political cartooning in the USA.
Click here to read more about the Bogotá conference in Spanish.
Obama Budget Heavyweight Scale
Groundhog Day Cartoons
Punxsutawney Phil has seen his shadow this year, so that means 6 more weeks of winter. But since laughter can help warm you up, here’s a collection of funny Groundhog Day Cartoons.
Eddie Izzard, God, Football and Peace
I went out to see Eddie Izzard last night in Los Angeles. It amused me to hear him preach his common sense atheist perspective while most of the audience roared but some obviously pious faces in the crowd grimaced.
I agree with Eddie on most political and religious issues, but there was one point in the show where I wished I could argue with him; he turned serious and pleaded with his adoring American audience to be interested in the World Cup and to love soccer, because if everyone in the world would love soccer, we’d have a chance at world peace. I think I was the only person laughing at that.
I had to laugh; I don’t think Eddie has ever noticed how the English behave at soccer games.
In terms of American football, I’m fortunate to live in Santa Barbara/Los Angeles, where there is no pro football team and the local university, UCSB, has no football team. Â I live in atheist football heaven!
America’s disinterest in soccer is an excellent measure of our healthy state of mind.
More "How to Draw Like Daryl"
People seem to like it when I show my sloppy drawing process, so here it is again with my last three cartoons.
The most recent cartoon has Obama in the pocket of greedy bankers. Â I draw with a hard pencil fairly quickly on 11″x17″ paper. Â I like a hard pencil because it encourages me not to render and get bogged down in details. Â I first thought I would have Obama shaking his fist, and that didn’t work – in fact, my first Obama attempt didn’t look good at all and I drew over it with a sharpie marker (which is quicker than erasing).
Next I did the finished line art, in pencil on a piece of vellum over the rough sketch. Â The black and white line art is how most people see the cartoon in the newspaper. Â One thing I notice with student cartoonists that that they shy away from using a lot of black. Â Heavy blacks stand out on the page and are lots of fun – don’t be afraid of black.
Then I color the image in with Photoshop, with the black lines as a layer over the color layer. Â This is for the few newspapers that print color on their op-ed pages and for the web. Â I try to keep my colors bright and simple – when I do anything with textures or colors that aren’t clean and bright, I get complaints from editors who say the cartoons look muddy when they are printed. Â Newspapers have lousy printing and the cartoons have to work for the worst of them.
I drew the cartoon below when Scott Brown won the senate seat in Massachusetts – an unpleasant day for Obama and the Democrats. Â The first decision I had to make was whether to draw Obama or a Dem donkey under the Massachusetts rain cloud – either would be fine, but since Obama’s agenda was taking a hit, and I like to bash Obama, I went with the president. Â Here’s the rough sketch. Â I printed out a map of Massachusetts that I found on the web and taped it to the paper.
Then I traced it with pencil on vellum, scanned at high contrast so it looks like I drew it in ink. Â This is what most people see in the newspaper.
And here is the color version from our site.
This last one, from last week, is bashing the media in Haiti. Â I wasn’t happy with the vultures in my rough sketch, and I drew over them in purple Sharpie Marker, quick and dirty. Â Nobody is supposed to see this.
Then I trace it nicely on vellum and scan as line for the newspapers.
And I color it in Photoshop …