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Texas Disaster

Back when I was a local cartoonist for the now-defunct Honolulu Advertiser newspaper, there was a disaster where a negligent captain allowed his submarine to be controlled by a stupid celebrity who rammed into a Japanese High School fishing boat, killing and failing to rescue many of the kids. I reacted with cartoons strongly criticizing the Navy and the captain of the sub – but I missed the mark. The paper had a second cartoonist, Dick Adair who drew a memorial cartoon with leis floating on the water. Dick’s cartoon was better.

When a disaster first strikes, and people die, mourning should come first. I was thinking about that with the Texas floods as my colleagues were drawing gags and cartoons criticizing Trump’s visit to the scene, or cartoons championing the first responders, I thought I should take a step back and remember Dick Adair’s cartooning wisdom with a flowers on the water memorial cartoon, this time including a cowboy hat to signify Texas. Maybe readers and editors are in the mood for gags, but I’m in more of a somber, sympathetic mood.

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Off the Record TRUMP DISASTER and Cavemen Cartoonists

Today’s cartoon isn’t really an exaggeration – this is what “on-the-record” and “off-the-record” interviews with GOP politicians are really like these days. Sometimes a cartoon is nothing but a slice of life.

I’m setting up my studio again in Los Angeles after my move back from Nashville and I’ll hopefully be drawing more cartoons! This is the first one I’ve live-streamed from my new setup. There are too many things to remember with the streaming; with this one, I forgot the little sandpaper that I like to have on the side as I draw, to make the chisel points on my pencils – so I went outside and grabbed a couple of rocks. I can draw with rocks instead of sandpaper, just like the caveman editorial cartoonists used to do, back in the days of newspapers and dinosaurs as I saw depicted on my recent visit to the Creation Museum in Kentucky, where they recently opened a $100 million full size replica of Noah’s Ark, funded by taxpayers. The project is supported by $60 million in tax-free municipal bonds and ongoing tax support from a sales tax rebate and a tax on wages of all the employees who work for businesses in the Ark’s tax district, along with an $18 million tax rebate from the Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority. Here’s a nice article about it.

Gotta love Kentucky. The video below shows me drawing the “Off the Record” cartoon, rocks and all.  Thank God.

In the next video I color the cartoon, like a modern cartoonist on my Wacom Cintiq.

 

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Japan Nuclear Disaster in Iran

Japan Nuclear Disaster in Iran Color © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,Japan, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,Iran,earthquake,nuclear power,disaster

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Nuclear Crisis Cartoons

In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that leveled Japan over the weekend, the explosion at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has elevated fears of nuclear fallout. Some are putting the accident on a level just below Chernobyl.

Cartoonists from around the world are weighing in the dangerous situation, as well as it’s ramification for nuclear energy worldwide. See what they think in our Nuclear Crisis cartoon slideshow.

Japan nuclear fallout earthquake tsunami
Patrick Chappatte / The International Herald Tribune (click to view cartoon collection)
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Cartoons about Earthquake in Japan

An 8.9 magnitude earthquake rocked Japan overnight, creating a 23-foot tsunami that swept through coastal areas in Northern Japan, killing hundreds of people. Whenever a natural disaster or tragic event occurs, cartoonists are there to weigh in and present a unique perspective, often saying more with one powerful image than all the words on a page combined (that’s my cartoon below).

View the cartoons that have come in so far about the disaster in Japan’s Enormous Earthquake cartoon slideshow. We’ll update it as more come in.

Japan earthquake tsunami cartoon
Daryl Cagle / msnbc.com (click to view cartoon slideshow)
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Pakistan Relief Effort

Pakistan Relief Effort Color © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,Uncle Sam,terrorism,islam,muslim,USA,Pakistan,flood,disaster,relief,foreign aid,bomb,turban

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Drill Baby Drill Oilspill

Drill Baby Drill Oilspill Color © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,GOP, republican, elephant, oil, energy, oil spill, BP, Louisiana, disaster, oil slick, fish, bird

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Vultures in Haiti

Vultures in Haiti Color © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,television, cable news, Haiti, earthquake, disaster, rubble, victim, press, vulture, vultures, birds, deaths, suffering, media

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Wilma

Wilma © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,hurricane, Wilma,  Flintstones, TV, cartoon, Florida, Yucatan Peninsula, Category 5, weather, disaster, destroy

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Dropping Billions

Dropping Billions © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,New Orleans, billion, dollars, helicopters, flood, Katrina, disaster, budget, congress, funding, weather, Category 5, destroy, aid

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The President Leaps Into Action

The President Leaps Into Action © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,president Bush, TV, television, disaster, military, aid, action, leap, hurricane katrina, new orleans, slow reaction, weather, destroy