DarylCagle.comWith the ups-and-downs of the stock market over the last couple of weeks, and the threat of a double-dip recession looming, those close to retirement have been getting queasy every time they look at their 401(k) statements.
Check out what cartoonists think of the whole mess with our new Wrecked Retirement cartoon collection.
A moderate earthquake rattled the East Coast today, shaking buildings and homes and rattling hundreds of thousands of people from North Carolina to New York.
Check out our East Coast Earthquake cartoon slideshow for some funny cartoons about this rare East Coast earthquake.
Moammar Gadhafi’s regime in Libya is at a tipping point, as rebels swept into the heart of the capital on their way to end the tyrant’s 42 years in power.
Check out what cartoonists across the globe think with our new Gadhafi Going Down cartoon collection.
The weak job market and Wall Street’s ups and downs dominated the news this week. People watched their 401k’s with nervous despair as the market responded to problems in Europe and signs that the U.S. might be headed towards another recession. Oh, and there was some guy named Perry who entered the race for President. It would have be treasonous not to mention him.
Catch-up on all the week’s top news stories through the eyes of the nation’s best cartoonists with our Cartoon Week in Review cartoon slideshow
Ten years ago I was president of the National Cartoonists Society and I brought our annual convention to the World Trade Center, shortly before its demise. I was looking through some of my old files this morning and I found a disturbing brochure (right) promoting the World Trade Center. Oh dear.
With the ten year anniversary of 9/11 coming soon, I collaborated on a French book project with Le Monde’s front page cartoonist, Plantu. We had a 32 page “conversation” about the ten years since 9/11 in comic book format for an anthology called 12 Septembre published by the big Belgian graphic novel publisher, Casterman (they do the Tin Tin books). The cover (left) of the book was interesting, disturbing, perhaps offensive, and a surprise to me. With victims and planes casually falling, or floating without emotion, and a cute, red lipped chick, big in the foreground. I don’t get it – maybe it’s a French thing. I know that cute chicks on book covers sell books … still …
The collaboration with Plantu was great fun. Plantu is a big star in France, with his cartoons gracing the front pages of the national newspaper, Le Monde, for over twenty years. I’ve never heard of editorial cartoonists having a graphic conversation like this before. We decided to bounce back and forth between two page spreads, working forward through the ten years. This was a pretty big project, and explains why I didn’t draw very many editorial cartoons back in January and February.
Le Monde is publishing excerpts from the book in their weekly magazine; a copy of a spread from my conversation with Plantu is below, and further below are a couple of my spreads in English, at a readable size.
Now that Rick Perry has inserted himself into the 2012 presidential race, all eyes are on the Texas governor to see if he can overtake front-runners Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney and win the party’s nomination. He’s already turned up the notch in terms of rhetoric, saying that military personnel don’t respect Barack Obama and criticizing the Federal Reserve as being almost “treasonous.”
Hartford Courant cartoonist Bob Englehart thinks Perry looks and sounds like the GOP’s nominee…
For those that miss the days of George W. Bush, Dave Granlund thinks Perry might be right up your alley…
Although as Monte Wolverton points out, Perry might want to remodel the U.S. Capitol a bit…
But what does Jesus think of Perry’s candidacy? Denver Post cartoonist Mike Keefe imagines for us…
Taylor Jones thinks Rick Perry’s real religious devotion comes down to one simple phrase…
View our collection of Michele Bachmann cartoons
So Michele Bachmann is the winner of the Iowa Straw Poll, elevating her to front-runner status in the crowded Republican field vying to become the party’s nominee for President in 2012.
It looks like Bachmann has channeled “the spirit” of John Wayne, which she claimed she would do when she launched her campaign in Waterloo, Iowa back in June. Wayne was born in Waterloo, as was Bachmann.
The only problem: The John Wayne with roots in Waterloo is John Wayne Gacy, a serial killer who was executed in 1994 after being convicted of 33 murders.
Oh well, she’s running for President anyway, and is now one of the top-tier candidates. Check out what cartoonists think with our collection of Michele Bachmann cartoons.
Riots in London, a S&P downgrade and a roller coaster of a stock market were some of the stories cartoonists poked fun at during this busy week of news. Catch up on everything you missed by checking out our big Week in Political Cartoons slideshow.
So President Obama and Republicans finally came to an agreement on extending the debt ceiling. Too bad all their bickering created more problems then it solved…
Many liberals are mad at the President for essentially giving Republicans 98 percent of what they wanted. His posture certainly has changed since entering office…
The stock market plummeted after Standard and Poor’s reduced the country’s AAA rating for the first time in our history. Many have questioned S&P’s integrity, especially since the other two ratings agencies have reaffirmed our AAA rating, but that seems besides the point…
As the stock market plummets, our representatives in Washington scramble to blame each other instead of working together to fix the problem. So much for leadership…
Well, so much for yesterday’s recovery.
Stocks are down sharply today, as investors continue to worry about the possibility of a double-dip recession. Instability seems to be the new norm, and if we’re going to be treated to a volatile market of ups and down, might as well enjoy a laugh and check out our new Roller Coaster Ride on Wall Street cartoon slideshow.
Every Friday, we collect the best political cartoons of the week and throw them into one big, glorious slideshow for you to enjoy (click here to view this week’s slideshow).
This week’s news was dominated by Congress and Obama finally agreeing on a compromise to raise the debt ceiling. Unfortunately, that didn’t do much to settle nervousness on Wall Steeet, which saw its largest one-day decline since 2008.
So sit back, relax and have a quick laugh at our new Cartoon Week in Review cartoon slideshow.
Wall Street suffered a brutal day, with the Dow Jones industrial average plummeting by 500 points, the worst drop since October 2008. The Dow, S&P 500 and the Nasdaq are down more than 10 percent from their previous highs and have erased their gains for the year. So much for that debt ceiling compromise calming the markets.
Check out our collection of Scary Stock Market cartoons.
