My Missing Donald Trump Cartoon
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Afghan War Leaks and Obama
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Obama Shrinks
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Oil Spill Advice from Bush
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Obama Emotions
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Obama Oil Sleep
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My Decade in Review
A decade is a long time –and this is  a lot of cartoons!  See my selections of the decade here with more than 80 of my cartoons marking the significant issues of the decade starting off with Bush vs. Gore.
I drew the cartoon below when the Supreme Court selected George W. Bush as president. Â I “defaced” the justices who voted for Bush and my newspaper at the time, the Honolulu Advertiser, refused to run the cartoon. Â Ah … memories.
The cartoon at the right gave me some trouble. Â I drew it on the second anniversary of 9/11, which seems to have been too soon, as it drew some very angry reaction.
The cartoon below also garnered some angry reaction, with readers screaming that it was terrible for me to compare our nation’s president with that evil murderer, Osama Bin Ladin.
Another cartoon below drew some furious reaction from Republicans who wanted to argue with every little fact in the mind of Republicans – not to say that I was wrong, but to point out all the things they disliked about Democrats. Click to see them all.
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Old, Small Obama
Sometimes I like to vary the dimensions of my cartoons. Most editorial cartoons are the same 1 1/2 wide by 1 tall, which fits the cartoon hole that newspapers keep open for the cartoon. Sometimes an odd sized cartoon will jar an editor into running something different.
I did today’s cartoon extra wide, but on the web, extra wide means extra small, and I lose details like old Obama at the right. Everything is a tradeoff.
See my rough sketch below, followed by the line art, that most people see in the newspapers, then the color version that I do for the web and for the few newspapers that print color on their editorial pages.
Sometimes a cartoon, like this one, is just fun to draw. Even if it doesn’t say a whole lot; fun to draw is enough.
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From My Anti-Socialist Mail-Bag
Added 9/10/09: Here’s an interesting column about my Obama school speech cartoon (the cartoon is below) from a newspaper editor, responding to some very vocal complaints from readers who misunderstood the cartoon.
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 4:39 PM
Subject: Cartoon question
Dear Daryl,
I just got a surprise phone call from a reader who was mad at me because he thought your cartoon of little Jeffy was intended as an insult to the president. I told him that’s not the way I took the cartoon, and that I thought it skewered those who thought Obama’s speech would “indoctrinate” youngsters and turn them instantly into Communists. Our reader didn’t sound very convinced.
I know cartoonists don’t like to explain their work, but did IÂ interpret your cartoon as you intended?
Thanks for the help,
Rowe Ray
Managing Editor – San Marcos Daily Record
On Sep 8, 2009, at 6:12 PM, Daryl Cagle wrote:
Hi Ray,
I’m being sarcastic. I think the conservative complaints and fears about Obama’s speech were silly, so I drew it up to look silly. Â I did, however, label the cartoon as “conservative” on our download site, because I knew some conservatives editors would take it literally, and that amused me.
Satire is often lost on readers; sometimes it is a cultural thing. I recently gave a speech in Tokyo where the interpreter explained all of my cartoons to the audience who didn’t understand or appreciate our concept of sarcasm. I guess that explains why we rarely see political cartoons in Japan.
There will always be readers who don’t “get it” –better to keep drawing for the ones who do “get it.”
All the best,
Daryl
From: Sally
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 11:10 AM
Subject: Jeffy cartoon
I found the cartoon very offensive.  Yes, I do realize you were trying to be sarcastic.  However, this ran in our local paper before the speech was given.  I believe that many of the “extremists” who are not going to listen to the school speech will actually believe this is what the speech is about, and then go spread even more of their lies.  As I told the Editor and Publisher of our local paper, if it has run AFTER the speech, it would be quite obvious to all that you were just being offensively sarcastic.
I wonder how Ed, Chris Matthews, Olberman and the other news people on MSNBCÂ feel about this.
Sally Sarina
Jeff Keane left this comment about the cartoon on my Facebook Page:
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More of My Sketches
Readers seem to like it when I post my rough sketches, so here we go again, with my sketches for my last couple of cartoons. Â The first one is the Obama Healthcare Caduceus. Â I do the rough sketch in hard pencil on slick paper, so I’m not tempted to do details and render.
Then I trace over the sketch on drafting vellum, with a hard pencil that I scan to look like ink and save as a bitmap file for black and white printing. Â The image below is what most readers see in the newspaper.
Then I add the color in Photoshop. Â I use rather unsophisticated colors because newspaper printing is lousy, and if I use anything that isn’t pastel and bright I get complaints from editors.
Here’s the sketch for another health care cartoon. Â Same thing here, hard pencil on slick paper.
I did the same thing with the pencil on vellum, but this time I just added a bit of gray tone to the drawing because I wasn’t quite inspired to color this one.
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Obama the Budget and China
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Obama Puppy and Banks
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Obama Citibank and GM Doggies
