DarylCagle.comHere’s a new batch of my old TRUE cartoons. This first one is a self-portrait of younger me, sitting on the toilet, talking on my land-line rotary phone. Looking at the old True cartoons makes me feel young again, until I notice details that make me feel old.
Most of this new batch of my old TRUE panels came from my collection about entertainment and celebrities. I ended up killing most of these cartoons because they were so stale. I forget how different things were back in 1995. This edited batch of cartoons makes 1995 seem not so different from today – even though one cartoons shows a guy reading a book on the toilet; we may not read books anymore, but toilets haven’t changed much.
Star Trek is still familiar 23 years later. Mattel’s Barbie is still popular, but other toys in my TRUE cartoons are forgotten – for example Barney the Dinosaur was big in 1995. I forgot all about Barney. The first cartoon below is about Lassie, who we remembered as a doggie celebrity back in 1995. Do people remember Lassie now?
Here’s another batch of my TRUE syndicated newspaper cartoons from 1995. I’m culling out the cartoons that are not too stale to include in our PoliticalCartoons.com database and making little changes so that don’t seem too dated; sometimes that is hard and I have to delete some of my favorite oldies. I’m letting quite a few old style TVs and land line phones sneak through.
I suppose it is more interesting that so little has changed.
Here’s a batch of some crazy TRUE stuff from my factual cartoon panel from the 1990’s that never gets old!
Here’s another collection of my TRUE cartoons about kids!
I’m loading my oldies into our PoliticalCartoons.com database, and making some editorial decisions on what to edit or cut. These TRUE cartoons ran in newspapers back in 1995. It is interesting to see how many of them hold up well over the years. Things don’t change much. The TRUE cartoons that look stale have land-line phones, phone booths, and old style televisions. I’m culling out the cartoons that refer to events and politicians in 1995 – after all, our database is an online store and I don’t think people will be interested in licensing stale cartoons. Political cartoons in general go stale fast, which is both a problem and a blessing for us.
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Here’s another batch of TRUE cartoons with facts about KIDS!
Here’s another batch of TRUE cartoons about KIDS!
Here’s batch of my TRUE! cartoons, on the subject of Health Statistics!
First Lady Melania Trump is known for her sophisticated fashion choices. 
When she went on a recent visit to see facilities holding illegal immigrant children she chose to wear a jacket imprinted with the words: “I REALLY DON’T CARE DO U?”
This led to lots of media speculation about whether she thought about the message on the jacket, whether the jacket reflected her own views on the subject of her trip, or whether it was a message to president Trump – who later tweeted that it was a message about the fake news media.
And it looks like I gave Melania two left hands. Sorry about that. I get mail when I do that.
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When President Trump described illegal immigrants as infesting America, I remembered an old cartoon I drew early in 2015 with Trump as the Pied Piper. Of-course, the Pied Piper legend was about a goofy troubadour who played his “pipe” to rid a town of rats, then, as the result of a payment dispute, he led the children out of town. Trump’s recent executive order that supposedly stopped jailing immigrant children seems to do little or nothing about the kids, who will continue to be imprisoned, one way or another –perhaps on military bases.
I lived in New York in the 1980s, and Trump was a big, local celebrity; he was a thin playboy, before he turned orange, and it took me some time to realize that present day plump-Trump doesn’t look much like the Trump I knew. Trump has filled out his figure and trimmed his formerly giant, bushy eyebrows. I had a svelte 1980s Trump in my memory as I drew this oldie with Trump entrancing the Republican Party.
Now it bothers me to look at this one. Looking at the kids in cages bothers me more.
With all the hurricane news, I brought back this oldie for newspapers this weekend. Most news stories don’t change much – but hurricanes seem to get much bigger as time goes by. It is reassuring to know that global warming is fake news, or I might be worried about how things are going.
Here’s my Covfefe cartoon!
This is about Trumps Twitter typo, which was mildly amusing and forgettable but elicited a media furor.
Sorry about being away the past two weeks – I’m back to work and drawing cartoons again! I’ll put up a post soon about my trip to the lovely press cartoons festival in Virton, Belgium!
Thanks to my editor, Brian Fairrington for writing the nice obit for my friend, Cagle Cartoonist Larry Wright who passed away last week. Larry was a wonderful guy and a wonderful cartoonist. We miss him.
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June 6, 2017 – Here’s my cartoon as it appears today in USA Today! –Daryl
