Category: Holidays are funny

Santa was laid off. AGAIN.

Santa visits the unemployment office cartoon

This is normally a Christmas cartoon, but should it run before or after Christmas?!

It seems logical that Santa would visit the unemployment office AFTER Christmas, of course, but those pesky editors just aren’t in the mood to buy Santa Claus anything after Christmas Day – I guess they think the cartoon should be half price! [...]

The Ghost of White House Christmas Trees Past.

Obama needs a night cap for his rendezvous with the Christmas Tree

I watched part of the White House Christmas Special that Oprah put on, with my renewed interest in smoggy, buggy, busy Washington, now that I have to DRAW it. I need more pictures and details, to draw it. I can’t tell you how many school trips and family trips we had to Wash DC. Then [...]

Tofu for Thanksgiving cartoon, not necessarily vegan.

Tofu Thanksgiving! With joke in corner, not by Oliphant

Thanksgiving cartoon for people who read editorial cartoons:
*Hey, both my Tofu Turkey cartoon and my abortion cartoon are on the front page of Slate today, Thanksgiving! Gotta love the combination, and good feelings all over! San Francisco Chronicle joined in!
Cartoon caption: TOFU FOR THANKSGIVING! Vegan, or…Bankrupt? [Toles or Oliphant would draw a small mammal here]
I [...]

Veteran’s Day cartoon for War Dogs, too.

Veteran

The slayings at Fort Hood came very close to Veteran’s Day, so I think some cartoonists broke out their sad pens early. I did a cartoon on something worse than Ft. Hood, which I’ll put up later this week. Meanwhile, tomorrow is Veteran’s Day, so…

Since I just started doing op-ed cartoons in February for Slate, [...]

The vampire and Sarah Palin.

going as Sarah Palin for Halloween?

And we’ll be showing Halloween cartoons all week, folks!

Sarah, I’ll never forget you! Everyone knows Sarah Palin dropped out of her cool Governor job in Alaska to be… well, so far, an author -with her first book. Whoa, it gets released on November 17, but it’s on sale now for only 9 bucks! Is that [...]

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