Yes, my Osama cartoon last week was fun to do, but this is the official Osama bin Laden cartoon – like the President’s Official Portrait. First Osama bin Laden cartoon I was in shock for the first couple of days – I guess we all were – but the main question that nagged at me,  [...]

Are you going? To the Royal Wedding, I mean. All the blogs are agog over it. I think I’d be more interested if the bride to be was a blonde. (J/K!) No, actually I find weddings to be boring, and pomp even worse. Cartoon caption: Obama and Hillary Clinton stand before a map of Libya, [...]

The Bank of Japan dumping yen into the economy to try to stabilize the stock market (and, oh yeah, our market as well.) (That is the first time I’ve ever used yen in a sentence.) Of course, I may have the entire scenario wrong, but I got a nice colorful cartoon out of it, with [...]

Because we believe all the headlines, right? Also, schools will be the first to get hit by radiation, if I remember classroom drills right I think we all knew that the media was exaggerating any danger from radiation. The brave Japanese workers who kept cooling down the factories kept most of the damage under control. [...]

More popular political cartoons for your enjoyment. Caption: Jury convicts Ingmar Guandique, illegal immigrant and MS-13 gang member, of murdering Chandra Levy. Mike Lester has a super-casual style, quite the opposite of old time editorial cartoons! This take on the Chandra Levy trial is a pretty straightforward idea, but I included it because I agreed [...]

It’s a beautiful new week for cartoons! This roundup for the LA Times is for cartoons published the second week of June, 2010. Since I’m editor here, I shan’t go into my personal  stuff – like my car accident, dealing with 2 insurance companies, aftereffects of the accident, a new problem in the car, which [...]