PROTEST PROBLEMS: TOP TEN CARTOONS OF THE WEEK
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Arab Spring Bath Tub Obama
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Egypt! Snowden! DOMA! Oh my!
It has been too long since I have posted new cartoons here! I took time away for the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention in Salt Lake City. (You can see me opine on the convention with Rob Rogers and Pat Bagley here.) Then it was the end of the quarter and I had to pay the cartoonist royalties, another three days lost. So I’m late. But here are the missing cartoons!
I drew this one of Edward Snowden a couple of weeks ago.
It wasn’t long before Ecuador was no longer talked about as a possible asylum for Snowden, so I drew a revision.
Today it looks like Venezuela will be the lucky winner in the Snowden derby.
The next one is Obama sweeping some crud under the constitution rug. I thought about labeling the crud “NSA,” and I could have labeled it “Guantanamo,” but I decided labels are for sissies. Given the e-mail I get from readers, I probably should have labeled the constitution also.
Next is Mohammad Morsi in his prison garb.
This one is actually in response to a reader comment. I had posted this oldie of Morsi on my blog …
Thanks to Cheryl Akins, who posted a comment that I should draw Morsi in prison garb now – and, of-course, she was right. I made his face a little cuter the second time around. I probably should have stuck with the uglier version.
With Egypt falling into chaos, I reposted one of my favorites from earlier this year.
Which brings us back to the Supreme Court’s DOMA and Prop 8 decisions. I drew this one.
We had a nice bunch of DOMA decision cartoons, but the best one came from by buddy Nate Beeler, who drew this big wet kiss that went viral on Facebook.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an outpouring of love for a cartoon as I witnessed for this Beeler beauty. Nice work, Nate.
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Syrian Obedience School
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Press Jerk or Bitch?
Here is my newest cartoon, with the media as an abused spouse of our petulant president. I did two versions of this one, with Obama saying “Bitch” for brave editors, and one with Obama saying “Jerk” for timid editors. I hope they will print “Bitch” but I expect that they will choose to print “Jerk.” Here is the rough sketch.
Here it is in black and white, as most newspapers readers will see it – “Bitch” version.
And color, “Bitch” version …
Here’s the color “Jerk” version …
Editors can be pretty darn timid, and I suspect that both versions of this cartoon might scare them off.
My grouchy editorial cartoonist colleagues, who lambasted me for my two-version Miranda cartoon, will be debating banning two versions of editorial cartoons as “unethical” at our upcoming convention. I must admit that, if some kinds of cartoons are banned, I’ll be motivated to draw them anyway, just to break the rules.
Another thing my colleagues will discuss banning are cartoons that are similar to other cartoons a cartoonist has drawn in the past. This abused press cartoon is similar to an oldie I drew about high gas prices.
It will be interesting to see how the cartoonists plan to enforce their new ethical rules.
The abused spouse gas cartoon generated some angry mail from actual abused spouses who were upset with me for not taking them seriously, in some strong and emotional language. I actually apologized for this one, since people were so upset. For any readers I offend with my new cartoon, you again have my apology – it is not my intent to criticize abused spouses – the cartoon is only about Obama and the press!
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Beaten Press Bitch Version
Here are my last four cartoons. The most recent is below, on the press growing less cute and adorable for Obama. I think if I drew puppies in all of my editorial cartoons, my work would be much more popular. I didn’t quite know how I would handle this one when I started drawing, so the rough sketch is a bit of a mess.
I was thinking of making this a four panel cartoon at first, with the doggie growing progressively bigger and a caption, but the simple two panel format won out. here is the line art that most people will see in their newspapers that print in black and white.
And here is the color. Readers love the doggies.
I drew the cartoon below when Obama made his first statement about the IRS scandal. here’s the black and white most people see.
And here’s the color.
Before that I did this one on the ongoing, outrageous, sexual assault scandals in the military.
And I drew this “Energizer Bunny” cartoon about the Benghazi Scandal that the Republicans can’t bear to see fade away.
There was a time when I would see an Energizer Bunny cliche editorial cartoon every week. Alas, those were the good old days.
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Obama and the Press Puppy
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Metamorphosis!
Richard Nixon is great fun to draw. It would have been wonderful to work as an editorial cartoonist during the Watergate days. It was an editorial cartooning renaissance.
This week, the pack of cartoonists all ran in the direction of comparing Barack Obama with Richard Nixon because of Obama’s worsening three scandals: the AP records seizure, Benghazi and the IRS. I draw metamorphosis cartoons every so often, when the news seems to be calling out for them. Here is the line art for Obama turning into Nixon, which most readers will see in newspapers that print in black and white.
Here’s the color version.
Just after the presidential election, the folks at Fox News were apoplectic about their loss, and ranted that Obama would be free to be the wild, radical leftist they knew he was all along, now that he was freed from the constraints of needing to be re-elected. So I drew this metamorphosis cartoon.
Back when Apple was rejecting my iPhone app applications, I drew this Apple metamorphosis cartoon …
And I drew this one when Disney bought Marvel Comics.
Cartoonists draw evolution themed cartoons all the time – which are pretty similar to metamorphosis, I guess. Here is Mitt Romney, and his evolving views about evolution, from back in 2007.
Here’s an evolving Donald Trump from 2011.
And a general evolution of man cartoon …
Cartooning, evolution and metamorphosis! It’s a tradition! I’m working on another one today.