Categories
Cartoons

Herman Cain Climbs

Herman Cain Climbs COLOR © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,Herman Cain, Rick Perry, President, GOP, Republican, climb, mountain

Categories
Cartoons

Obama GOP and Jobs

Obama GOP and Jobs COLOR © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,Barack Obama,president,elephant,GOP,Republican,Democrat,jobs,stimulus,economy

Categories
Cartoons

Syrian Cartoonist Ali Ferzat

Syrian Cartoonist Ali Ferzat COLOR © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,Ali Ferzat,Syria,president,Bashar al-Assad,Bashar Assad,Arab Spring,cartoonist,hands,beating,revolution,Middle East

Categories
Blog

Looking Back on 9/11

A disturbing old brochure, promoting the World Trade Center.

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.

 

One of the spreads from last Sunday's Le Monde, showing my graphic "conversation" with Plantu.

 

Categories
Cartoons

Spineless Obama

Spineless Obama © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,Barack Obama,president,spine,elephant,GOP,Republican,Democrat,spineless

Categories
Cartoons

Sarah Palin Spawn or Die

Sarah Palin Spawn or Die Color © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,Sarah Palin, Governor, Alaska, President, campaign 2012, Salmon

Categories
Cartoons

Syria Father and Son

Syria Father and Son © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,Hafez al-Assad,Bashar al-Assad,Hafez Assad,Bashar Assad,President,Syria,painting,blood,blood on his hands,revolution,arab,protests

Categories
Cartoons

Libya French Cafe

Libya French Cafe © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,Nicolas Sarkozy,president,france,Barack Obama,Libya,NATO,French Cafe,coalition,war,military,Khadafi,Gadafi,wine cafe,restaurant,cigarette

Categories
Cartoons

Obama and Libya Mosquito

Obama and Libya Mosquito Color © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,Barack Obama,mosquito,insect,bug,war,military,Libya,Iraq,Afghanistan,blood,president

Categories
Cartoons

Egypt President Mubarak Feels the Heat

Egypt President Mubarak Feels the Heat © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,Hosni Mubarak,Egypt,fire,butt,heat,protests,revolution,Arab,president

Categories
Cartoons

Obama Plays Poker

Obama Plays Poker Color © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,China, Russia, Panda Bear, bomb, Kim Jong Il, elephant, Barack Obama, president, Republican, elephant, poker, START treaty

Categories
Cartoons

GOP Glee Demo Doom

GOP Glee Demo Doom © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,elephant, donkey, jackass, republican, democrat, election, 2002, weather, sun, cloud, rain, happy, sad, victory, campaign, election, presidential, president