DarylCagle.comHere’s my cartoon from yesterday, about the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
All of the cartoonists have drawn too many cartoons about school shootings. We have a collection of cartoons about the latest school shootings on Cagle.com – come take a look and focus your rage against the NRA.
With all the talk of “landing the triple lutz” at the olympics, it occurred to me that Trump is a “triple putz”.
I thought “putz” was Yiddish slang for “penis” with the meaning of “jerk” but according to the Google dictionary:
That definition is not quite what I meant. I told our Cagle cartoonists that we weren’t going to accept penis gags any more. That was quite a difficult edict to enforce – I’m even violating it with this triple putz. Putzes win, I guess.
We syndicated this cartoon by Sean Delonas which has caused some controversy.
The cartoon was run in the Albuquerque Journal, which got blowback from local readers and politicians. The New York Times also wrote about the controversy. The Albuquerque Journal editor who ran the cartoon apologized. Here is a statement I gave to reporters.
Our conservative cartoonist, Sean Delonas, gave us this statement about the cartoon:
I stand 100% behind the cartoon. The cartoon, for the most part, is about use of the word “dreamers.” Politicians always give pleasing labels to bills that most Americans don’t want.
I do not have a problem with legal immigration, only illegal immigration. Sure, many illegal immigrants are good people; and many of them take advantage of our social services and some are criminals such as MS-13.
What bothers me the most is that it is becoming harder for people to voice their opinions in this country; if they offer an opinion that is unpopular (particularly with the left), attempts are made to shut down their voices by calling them racist, sexist, etc… At my age, I could care less what people call me.
I do feel sorry for The Albuquerque Journal editor who published my cartoon. She looks like a nice person and I regret that she’s taking heat for my cartoon.
We regularly get complaints from readers who are offended by our cartoons. Much of our email is from readers who demand that we should censor and apologize for the editorial cartoons that offend them. Usually these complaints come from the right, as most of our cartoons criticize President Trump.
We don’t edit our cartoons for political point of view. We look to the spectrum of political debate to decide what is appropriate to syndicate and this cartoon is consistent with what we hear from the right end of the political spectrum.
Sean Delonas, has drawn this cartoon in support of President Trump’s view that “illegal immigrants” bring violent crime to America; the cartoon responds to the president’s recent comments about the MS-13 gang.
I’m not surprised that this cartoon sparks outrage. It is up to each newspaper editor to decide what is appropriate to run in their own newspaper.
My personal view is that I agree with the critics of Sean’s cartoon.
Truly,
Daryl Cagle
Cagle Cartoons, Inc, Newspaper Syndicate
Outraged readers aren’t shy about their condemnation of the cartoon. Here are a couple of examples from Twitter.
Here’s my Trump Valentines Day Candy. I drew a tame version and asked my followers on Twitter (@dcagle) what they through – they wanted a less tame version. Somehow, I think newspapers will print the tame version.
The spicy version:
The tame version:
Knowing that newspapers have both versions to choose from, here’s an opportunity to see if your local editor is tame or spicy.
My goal with this cartoon was to make it look like the situation is threatening to both Trump (who can have the ground fall in on him) and Mueller (who may fall).
So … who will be the first to fall, and the first to get squished, when this all collapses?
The new on TV often doesn’t match up well with the news that actually affects most people – by that measure, I think theft epidemic is the biggest story in the USA right now, with hospitals filled to overflowing across the nation. Also, it is an excuse to draw something different than the rest of the pack of editorial cartoonists who are obsessed with Trump every day.
It is so nice to have an opportunity to draw a nasty monster. I thought about drawing a “flu bug” insect, like the Zika cartoon below …
But the Zika epidemic was transmitted by roaming mosquitos. My “flu bug” looks a bit too much like a reptile.
The image at the right, from Wikipedia, shows what the “flu bug” actually looks like. I don’t find this image to be very interesting; it has no eyes, or legs, or teeth, or snot. If is was an amoeba shape I could take some license with the shape to make arms and legs, but no.
Reptiles are threatening, so, what the hell. The flu is trouble for everybody, including me.
This weekend’s women’s march would have been much bigger news if the government shut-down hadn’t dominated the news.
I think that’s disappointing. The march deserved more attention. Any participants in future women’s marches are welcome to use my cartoons on their signs – just e-mail me, ask and I’ll e-mail you the high resolution image file. I’ll ask you to send me a photo of yourself with your sign to post on my blog. Here’s Cagle.com fan Shelly Carpenter who did just that at the women’s march in Seattle this weekend.
We have a government shut-down and all we’re hearing is arguments about who is to blame.
There is plenty of blame to go around!
Here’s my cartoon in USA Today, today (1/22/18). I do a different version for grayscale.
The missile alert in Hawaii last weekend was pretty crazy, with people calling their loved ones to say goodbye, and others jumping into sewers.
I spent my first years as an editorial cartoonist working for newspapers in Hawaii doing local cartoons, first for the Midweek, then for Gannett’s Honolulu Advertiser – now my cartoons run in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Hawaiian politics are wonderful fodder for editorial cartoons. I miss those days.
I used to fill my cartoons with local details. My wife went to Punahou school with Barack Obama, back in the day, and she would translate my cartoons into pidgin so I wass able to fool everyone into thinking I was a local. The missile alert was a horror for Hawaii but was a bit of cartoon nostalgia for me.
I read what was pretty close to the donkey’s quote this morning in the Los Angeles Times, attributed to Cristina Jiménez, the founder of United We Dream.
This is about where we are now, I think.
As the years pass, some things stay the same.
Presidents come and go, but North Korea remains a pain in the butt. Things don’t change much. Here’s a New Year’s cartoon I drew three years ago with Obama and Li’l Kim.
I don’t think we’ll see a change in North Korea, but hopefully we’ll see a new president getting bitten in the butt in another three years.
I’d like to express my heartfelt thanks to the firefighters who saved my neighborhood from the Thomas Fire.
