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Last week, we added a Keith Tucker to our little stable of cartoonists here on Cagle.com. Not only is Keith a political cartoonist, he’s also an Emmy award-winning animator who has worked for many of the top studios, including Warner Brothers, Disney, Hanna Barbera, Amblin, Universal and Marvel.
Here is an animated political cartoon by Keith about “Vulture Pirate” Mitt Romney, a parody of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “HMS Pinafore”:
This long election season is finally winding down, and tonight is the final Presidential debate between opponents Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Since our readers have enjoyed the previous open threads we’ve done for earlier debates, here’s an open thread for tonight’s event for everyone to “debate the debate” LIVE.
To start the discussion, here’s my new cartoon about the state of the race. It seems like Obama and Romney are all locked up. Will tonight’s debate change things?
Who do you think will win? Are you rooting for anyone? What do you hope they discuss? Will Biden say something crazy? Comment away below!
I ripped off our ultra-conservative cartoonist Gary McCoy with my new debate cartoon. See Gary’s cartoon below mine. I love you, Gary.
Since we have so many devoted readers with as many opinions about politics as our cartoonists (and since it went so well during the first Presidential Debate), here’s an open thread for all of you to have at it LIVE during tonight’s Vice Presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan.
To start the discussion, here’s a funny pre-debate cartoon by Nate Beeler of the Columbus Dispatch (check out all our cool Debate cartoons here).
Who do you think will win? Are you rooting for anyone? What do you hope they discuss? Will Biden say something crazy? Comment away below!
The battle over Sesame Street continues to be waged on the battlefield of TV news. The President has heightened his rhetoric following last week’s debate about Romney wanting to defund PBS, and Republicans have responded by playing a clip of Obama during 2008 when he said, “If you don’t have a record to run on… you make a big election about small things.”
We’ve had a lot of cartoons come in over the past week about Romney trying to kill Big Bird, so in order to prove not all cartoonists think alike, here are a handful of cartoons about the effort to defund PBS from our more conservative cartoonists.
Eric Allie thinks President Obama might have the wrong priorities…
While Augusta Chronicle cartoonist Rick McKee thinks Big Bird’s argument might be mistimed…
Columbus Dispatch cartoonist Nate Beeler finds the one Muppet that doesn’t support the President…
Beeler also introduces us to this Christmas season’s hottest toy…
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review cartoonist Randy Bish thinks the argument boils down to simple math…
Ever since Clint Eastward wandered onto the stage of the Republican National Convention with an empty chair, cartoonists have co-opted the visual imagery as a tool in their election cartoons. So it comes as no surprise that after last week’s Presidential debate, the empty chair would rear it’s ugly head again to represent President Obama, this time as an aloof participant in a debate performance with his challenger, Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
RELATED: More example of Cartoon Yahtzees
So when five or more cartoonists draw the same gag, we refer to it as a “Cartoon Yahtzee,” and as always, there is a basic rule of thumb to go by: if one other guy drew it, he’s a plagiarist; if five other guys drew it, they’re hacks; if a dozen other guys drew it, they are honoring a tradition.
The final cartoon isn’t a political cartoon per se – it comes from the cover of The New Yorker and is drawn by illustrator Barry Blitt. But as Blitt often uses ideas and concepts that stem from the world of political cartooning, it’s included here:
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.
Viewers turning in to see a firey, zinger-filled debate were treated to an event columnist Peter Funt said “was such bad television that many Americans, including the prized “undecided voters,” probably gave up and changed the channel.”
One of the most talked-about nuggets to come out of the debate was Romney’s renewed call to cut funding to PBS, despite the fact it only accounts for 0.012 percent of the budget (check out all our Defunding PBS cartoons). Here’s the cartoon I drew at the time Republicans proposed defunding PBS as a way to help balance the budget:
Rob Tornoe’s cartoon from last night also weighs in on the desire to give the budgetary axe to Sesame Street. Poor Big Bird:
Our conservative bomb-thrower Gary McCoy predicted how the so-called “mainstream media” would try to spin last night’s debate results:
While Mobile Press-Register cartoonist JD Crowe dug past the soundbytes to try and find the truth fact checkers seemed so desperate to uncover:
Speaking of fact checkers, Bob Englehart of the Hartford Courant figures with all the misstatments during last night’s debate, they’re about ready for the funny farm:
Meanwhile, Adam Zyglis of the Buffalo News reminds us what follows every presidential debate:
