Big oil profits vampire

Editorial Cartoon for the May 31, 2007 Charter Oak-Ute NEWSpaper and Schleswig Leader.

So I'm a little anxious about how much my family vacation is going to cost me- there's still no excuse for the record profits that the oil companies are sucking from us, especially here in the heartland- farmers, truckers, people just driving to work. It is absolutely heinous and I could think of no iconic figure more evil that this one.

About time, if you ask me

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Here's a great cartoon about tax shelter reforms

Media elitite, Boutique, Limousine, Country-Club Conservatives who play populists on TV and the radio

I really wanted to stop posting other people's cartoons on my site, but every once in a while I come across one that is too good at pointing out the truth. I could write a thousand word rant about the hypocrisy of right wing Republicans when it comes to deficit spending, the National debt, and especially the reversal of the progressive tax structure in the last 30 years after it had grown our middle class so robustly for 50 years before that. Or how they LOVE to make taxes such a red herring issue to promote fear and agitate working class voters to act against their own self interests... or just let Horsey's masterful cartoon make the point for me.

Iowa's Senator Grassley: the people's angel

My cartoon for the Dec. 13 Mapleton PRESS

Boy, I was racking my brain for an idea this week. Usually I try to get done the Thursday before the cartoon is supposed to run. This one came to me driving home from school Thursday night. But I was panicky because I was too tired and busy with my kids to draw anything that night and I never imagined I'd ever be able to manage it before school since I have hall monitor duty this week. Thank God for small blessings because we had a 2 hour late start for snow.

I was still anxious. I've only drawn Senator Grassley one time before and never thought I could ever replicate it. He has such an amazing face. But I think I pulled it off. I'm afraid I made Creflo Dollar look a little too much like Supreme Court Justice Clarance Thomas, which is too bad because Dollar is a really handsome guy. Benny Hinn usually looks friendlier in real life, but oh well. And frankly, I think I absolutely nailed the Joel Osteen.

Hot issue. Gotta confess, I sometimes like to listen to Bishop T.D. Jakes and Robert Shueler- but I never send them money. I love Rick Warren, but I think that he's actually on the up and up, unlike these other guys. I really worry about my friends and family who watch Osteen all the time, but whatchya gonna do but pray for 'em?

Oink

Cartoon for the Thursday, November 22, 2007 Mapleton PRESS

The Lazy Babysitter

Editorial Cartoon for the November 1, 200y Mapleton PRESS

Big 'W' is listening to you!

Cartoon for the Thursday, October 25, 2007 Mapleton PRESS.
Special thanks to "John L." of someplace our West for the idea- I'd be more specific, but the NSA and CIA are probably already listening to his phone calls.
War is Peace, Right is Wrong!

I know that the donkey's eyes are kind of an homage to Picasso, but I like them that way. I think he's cute in a weird, surrealist/cubist sort of way. I also think that my Bush is about the best I've done since I started cartooning every week a couple of years ago.

Iowa's Republicans on the SCHIP

My editorial cartoon for the October 11, 2007 Mapleton PRESS

Cartoon for week 39

Here's my editorial cartoon for the Thursday, September 27 Mapleton PRESS
Sorry, I just couldn't bring myself to draw anything about OJ Simpson

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So... 'W' says that Iraq is like Vietnam after all... (in a weird sort of way). Well guess what 'Dub? History repeats it self in all kinds of ways...

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Editorial cartoon for the September 13, 2007 Mapleton PRESS

Inspired by a report on where Senator Fred's major support would be coming from. I keep trying to improve my printing, especially because veteran cartoonists, experts and editors (like Daryl Cagle) frown on using actual computer fonts that look like cartoonist printing. But I'm still very self conscious of my penmanship. Maybe I need a bolder pen or even a felt tip marker. I guess it's just like how people hate to hear their voice on recordings. Ick.

NOTE: This cartoon didn't run in the PRESS. I don't know what the issue was, room, time, lost the file, or editorial prerogative- but in hind sight I think it may be a little over the edge. Not because it accuses Southerners of being sexist or racist, or because it uses the word "colored," but because cartoons usually accuse politicians of things, this one accuses you the reader. So if you feel accused of liking Fred Thompson because he's a male, white, protestant, conservative- sorry, but do examine your own heart and remember, "walks like a duck, quacks like a duck..."

"Mr. 99 Counties" on "Mr. Torture-Memo"

Editorial Cartoon for the September 6, 2007 Mapleton PRESS

I was listening to the radio around Aug 27 and I swear I heard a sound byte of Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley saying something to the effect that "you don't just fire someone for being stupid."

The next day I tried to google the quote but all that any newspapers are running is "he did a lot of stupid things," but left out the good stuff.

This was one last chance to take a stab at the now former Attorney General who's been a favorite target of mine. It was the first time I tries to draw Grassley, who has a wonderful, wrinkled, complicated, Iowa farmer kind of face. He reminds me either of Dr. Seuss's Grinch or one of the weird aliens in Jim Hansen and Frank Oz's fantasy sci-fi movie, "the Dark Crystal."

I was proud of this cartoon, but of course, they run a week later so they're old news.

Gonzo resigned on a Friday (8/24),
this was in the news Monday (8/27),
I drew it Tuesday but that same Tuesday the gay Senator from Idaho soliciting a cop in an airport bathroom eclipsed it in the news (8/28).
But I guess that won't be news by the time it reaches readers mailboxes two Thursdays later (9/6).

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A study in contrast

Charter Oak-Ute NEWSpaper - Schleswig Leader, Thursday, August 9, 2007 - Page 3

Did you know that John Mitchell was the commander of JFK's PT boat group in WWII? Weird coincidence. But hey, Rupert Murdoch supports Hillary Clinton, and Ken Starr's law firm has contributed more to her campaign than to the top 4 Republican candidates combined.

I don't know, maybe this is dull as political cartoons go. I was to lazy to use color this week. I like the smoke from Mitchell's pipe, though. I'm worried that I'm getting in a rut of just doing caricatures with captions. Hopefully my brain will come up with something different next week.

Contempt

Here's my editorial cartoon for the Thursday, August 2, 2007 Charter Oak-Ute NEWSpaper and Schleswig Leader. I don't know. I've had better luck on Dick Cheney and while I like my George W this time around, it's too obvious that I sheared the image a little and frankly, he kind of looks a lot like a monkey. You might criticize my Harriot Meiers as unkind, but I'm sorry, she's just that ugly. If only we could all look as clean cut ans bland as Josh Bolton!

"Liberal Media"

Try COMMERCIAL media- as in , it's about making money , selling yourself- and the customer is always right.Editorial cartoon for Thursday, July 26, 2007

Scooter and Paris

Political cartoon for the Charter Oak - Ute NEWSpaper and Schleswig Leader for Thursday, July 12, 2007

Uncle Sam and the Liliputians; or Guliver attacked by Neocons

Here is my comic for the Charter Oak-Ute NEWSpaper and Schleswig Leader for July 5, 2007

And by the way, here's the sketchbook page that I originally scanned into PhotoShop

Billionaire Playing Games

Editorial Cartoon for the June 28, 2007 Charter Oak-Ute NEWSpaper and Schleswig Leader.

No sooner than I posted this, than I seem to want to draw one about how Dick Cheney is his own rogue nation, since he's neither part of the Executive nor the Legislative branched of government! Man, truth is stranger than political cartoons lately!

Trying to get ahead of myself for vacation

Editorial Cartoon for the June 14, 2007 Charter Oak-Ute NEWSpaper and Schleswig Leader.

Wow, these guys were hard to caricature. I'm still worried that my Fred Thompson looks too much like Jack Cafferty on CNN. My Al Gore has come a LONG way- I did a pretty weak one back in January. Gore has my vote, although, between the three of them, I'd most like to have a President Jack Cafferty!

Big oil profits vampire

Editorial Cartoon for the May 31, 2007 Charter Oak-Ute NEWSpaper and Schleswig Leader.

So I'm a little anxious about how much my family vacation is going to cost me- there's still no excuse for the record profits that the oil companies are sucking from us, especially here in the heartland- farmers, truckers, people just driving to work. It is absolutely heinous and I could think of no iconic figure more evil that this one.