DarylCagle.comEvery 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.
Yesterday, columnist Tina Dupuy (who I syndicate to newspapers and Web sites nationwide) wrote about the need for gun control in America, noting that the NRA was for gun control over its first hundred years and only recently started to mention the Second Amendment as their cause.
There’s no cartoonist who cares about the issue of gun control more than Bill Day. Here are some of Day’s best cartoons about guns in America.
What do you think – do we need more gun control laws, or less? Comment below or weigh in on our Facebook page!
I’m having more and more fun drawing Mitt Romney. The grey temples, the perfect hair. Normally, good looking politicians are the worst to draw, and Romney looks like he belongs on “Mad Men”, but I have to admit he’s growing on me.
Here’s Romney at the tattoo parlour…
Obama makes sure that Romney gives us nightmares…
Romney and Obama have much the same style…
Political cartoonists often use established visual metaphors in order to help get their opinion across in their work. Greek urns have managed to survive thousands of years, so what better metaphor to use in order to describe the fiscal calamity Greece currently faces?
For the first time in U.S. history, more than half of the babies born in the country are nonwhite. The data also shows that almost half of all young children are from minority groups, which means the next generation of Americans will be far more diverse than today.
Cam Cardow of the Ottawa Citizen sees a trend developing among protesters…
While John Cole of the Scranton Times-Tribune sees a new “border war” developing…
Dave Granlund sees whites as just the latest mammal population to dwindle…
Meanwhile, according to David Fitzsimmons of the Arizona Daily Star, an Arizona legislator wants a state holiday for white people…
And Pat Bagley of the Salt Lake Tribune shows who the real minority is in the U.S. these days…
Will Greece remain in the Euro?
It’s a debate that’s flummoxing all of Europe at the moment. Leaders of the G8 industrialized nations agreed over the weekend that Greece should remain a member of the European Union, yet many, like Hungary’s finance minister, say openly that the only way forward is for Greece to leave the Euro.
[ Check out our collection of cartoons about the Crisis in Greece ]
Here’s my new cartoon about the craziness in Greece, featuring a Greek statue throwing a Euro coin at German Chancellor Angela Merkel…
Whenever anyone in the U.S. thinks of Greece, century-old temples and marble statues are often the first things that come to mind. Using these visual images makes it easier to express the dire situation Greece faces without getting into the weeds of numbers and details…
Of course, all the statues have to be armless. It’s like drawing a cheating politician in his underwear – white boxers with red hearts should always be revealed when their pants drop to the ground…
Coffee addicts rejoice! A new study shows the coffee, either caffeinated or decaffeinated, may actually help extend the lives of people who drink it. This is good news for cartoonists, since our great ideas are fueled by bottomless cups of joe!
Here are five funny coffee cartoon that are bound to make you chuckle…
Mike Peters is one of the all time greatest cartoonists – here he is giving the commencement address at his alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis. Watch Mike, he’s fun:
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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 campaign season again, and that means controversial Reverend Jeremiah Wright is back in the news.
Back in 2008, sermons by Obama’s Chicago pastor created a media firestorm during the Iowa primaries, with Wright screaming, “Goddamn America!” Obama cut ties with Wright following the controversy, but now the outspoken reverend is back with new allegations that Obama’s team tried to buy his silence.
In “The Amateur,” author Edward Klein’s unauthorized biography of Obama, Wright said that once his controversial sermons surfaced, he received an email asking him not to preach until after the elections. The New York Times reports that the financier of the Ending Spending super PAC is considering going nuclear with millions of dollars worth of commercials once again linking Wright to Obama.
Here’s my cartoon from back in 2008 that I drew when Wright’s controversial sermons caught the media’s attention:
Here are some cartoons from our archives featuring Wright and Obama from the 2008 campaign. Will he become a major campaign issue again? Comment below or post a note on our Facebook page.
California is my home state, and for years our state legislature has been kicking the budget deficit can down the road. Now it seems we might have reached the end, as legislators struggle to close a new, eye-catchingly large $16-billion deficit, which has nearly doubled since Gov. Jerry Brown released his initial budget proposal in January.
This is nothing new for our state. Back in 2009, when the state faced a $21 billion deficit, I suggested several new flag designs that California could adopt, all featuring the same blame-free bear.
Unfortunately, there might not be much of a future for that poor bear if we can’t figure this problem out..
Many are calling Brown a butcher for proposing $8.3 billion in cuts, which include slashing welfare, social services and health care for the elderly, and converting state workers to a four-day work week…
Brown’s budget assumes voters will pass $8.5 billion in new taxes, but I don’t know many people who are going to support it…
Businesses are fleeing California as fast as they can…
As much as I love California, it’s not hard to see what it might look like in the future…
Our brilliant but knuckle-dragging conservative cartoonist, Eric Allie, weighed in on the Washington Post’s Mitt Romney bullying story with this funny but risqué cartoon I imagine many editors will pass up for safer cartoons:
I asked Allie to weigh in with his thoughts on the cartoon, but he preferred to let it speak for itself.
“It’s crude,” he told me. “And if I offended anyone, sweet. That’s what I intended.”
There were certainly some readers offended on our Facebook page, but there were also a lot of readers who seemed to enjoy the cartoon, even as they disagreed with its message. Here’s a sampling of what readers had to say:
Gregory Kauffman: Demonstrates the wholesome family values of our conservative friends.
Sharon Foust: LOL Oh dear! That is a little risque but accurate. I used to read WaPo every day online. I got so tired of the editorial board sucking up to The Anointed One I stopped reading it.
Joshua Delano: Love it, Bill only had one Intern down there…Barack found a way to have a whole newspaper on their knees for his perpetual pleasuring. Monica had to at least come up for air…
William S E. Coleman: Tasteless and foul. Beyond that, it is stupid.
Matt Doyle: The media has always been in bed with Obama, but this is immature.
David Dolkart: Linda Lovelace would be amused, Mark Felt and Ben Bradlee wouldn’t.
Carlton Godbold: Ugly and stupid, like so much of the senseless Teanderthal bashing. Definitely a low blow.
Alexander Thorburn Hoffman: It sure beats cartoons that are so safe and bland with nothing important to say.
Joseph Edward Bodden: Snide, baseless, intended to be inflammatory, fraudulent and misleading and divert attention away from sober, intelligent consideration of the real issues and their real world relevance.
Jeffrey McMillian: Another lowering of the “common” denominator.
Skip Simons: The GOP has a” Democrat fellatio fetish”, I think… they all want to get serviced, but, their “Conservative Values” prohibit it…. First Lewinsky, now this…
Tim Harshman: Actually you could substitute any of the major networks and the NY Times and it would still fit.
John Swegan: Interesting that the one guy in Washington not caught cheating on his wife would be depicted this way.
What do you think of Allie’s cartoon? Comment below, or drop us a line on our Facebook page.
