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Here a cool video of our talented young cartoonist Adam Zyglis, the staff cartoonist at the Buffalo News. He was interviewed on CNN by Karin Caifa during this years Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) convention that took place in Washington, D.C. last month.
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!
First lady Michelle Obama had a personal tweet about Bo, the White House dog, who turns four today:
It’s a big 4th birthday for Bo! He’s getting some extra treats today. –mo
— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) October 9, 2012
Here are five cartoons from our archives about Bo, the Portuguese Water Dog that was a gift from the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and wife Vicki. At the time, the Obama administration was caught up in a scandal of several staffers owing hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes, so you see that cropping up in a couple of the cartoons:
After President Obama’s miserable, poll-shifting performance in last week’s debate with Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Democrats are put in the akward position of hoping for a strong performance in Thursday’s Vice Presidential debate from gaffe-machine Joe Biden.
RELATED: View our Best of Biden cartoon collection
This means that unfortunately for Obama, he’s going to have to remove the tape from Joe’s mouth, like in this cartoon by Taylor Jones…
Arizona Daily Star cartoonist David Fitzsimmons thinks Biden might be able to take advantage of an inexperienced Paul Ryan…
At this point, Delaware cartoonist Rob Tornoe thinks Joe Biden is a wildcard…
While Augusta Chronicle cartoonist Rick McKee knows where Biden will be resting prior to the debate…
Minneapolis Star-Tribune cartoonist Steve Sack takes a quick peek into the mind of Joe Biden, Looks fun…
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:
Since we have so many devoted readers with as many opinions about politics as our cartoonists, I thought it would be cool to do an open thread tonight and let you all have at it LIVE during tonight’s Presidential debate.
To start the discussion, here’s my pre-debate cartoon (don’t miss all our great Debate Cartoons):
Who do you think will win? Are you rooting for anyone? What do you hope they discuss? Comment away below!
We have an extensive collection of cartoons archived here on Cagle.com, and from time to time, it’s fun to take a look back at how our cartoonists covered events in the past.
With the first big Presidential debate approaching between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, I thought it’d be fun to look back at this collection of cartoons about the Presidential debates in 2008 between Obama and Arizona Senator John McCain.
Click the image below to view the full collection of 2008 Debate cartoons!
I was inspired to draw this cartoon by President Obama’s recent television ad campaign in Pakistan, designed to quell the riots that seemed to be in response to a video that some nut posted on Youtube. I thought the ad campaign was ridiculous, and Obama’s constant, never-ending re-affirmations of his respect for Islam are as tiresome as they are ineffective in making the Pakistanis love us more. Considering the president as the source of the message and considering our cultural differences, this simply isn’t a message that will work with the Pakistani audience – that is the point of the cartoon.
It seems our readers’ comments focused more on my Obama-bashing, and the fact that I gave the president boobs. Yes, Obama is indeed dressed inappropriately to be promoting Islam, again, that’s the point. Our conservative cartoonist, Gary McCoy sent this comment:
“Intended or not, very interesting social science experiment, Daryl. You do a rare “conservative” cartoon, and though you get swarms of negative feedback, none of it contains the kind of hateful vitriol your usual left-leaning pals reserve for Eric Allie and me. Kudos for stepping out of your comfort zone though. Oh, and thanks for getting me hate-posts on a day when I didn’t even do a cartoon. I was feeling lonely there for a minute.”
The mail and the comments seemed pretty angry to me; here are some examples …
Steven Dinero: Nope, doesnt work on so many levels. Sorry.
JaJa888: I thought Mr. Cagle was a liberal. I really hope that this is sarcasm, because otherwise the propaganda is getting to him…
Kevin Mystic-Rose Rosenthal: Pandering to the radical nut jobs. Is that your intent?
Cora Elizabeth Mason: I do not like it. It is insulting to the POTUS, not good at all, and why make him breasts?
Lissa Albert: Dems will hate it (as is evidenced here) and many will see the caustic humoreality of it. I happen to think this is brilliantly edgy!
Susan J Frary: I find it offensive. I also think it is not based on any facts, but on false perceptions. President Obama is working hard to develop peaceful relationships with many in the Middle East – failing to offend them is not easy. That is why it is called DIPLOMACY.
Rob McGrath: Not sure why his boobs are bigger than his ears.
Diane Hargreaves Talbot: You’d waste your chutzpah on this tripe? Really? Cagle? Who are you and what have you done with Daryl Cagle? Totally incendiary and inappropriate and wrong. Yuck.
Sue Hulett: Maybe you should go read his UN speech again. You seem to have misread it, or else you really are just an ass hat.
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