Category: International cartoons

Does North Korea have a target painted on our face?

alternate bomb for North Korea

I think I just wanted to draw my first nuclear bomb. I don’t know why, but when I saw how seriously the news was taking reports of Kim Jong Il setting off nuclear bomb tests, it made me kind of giddy, like laughing in church. Perhaps I am a bad person (but not saying I’m [...]

Navy sonar is like unsolicited sales calls to whales.

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I first read about this last fall. From the Christian Science Monitor: In a 6-3 ruling on Wednesday, the high court criticized a federal judge in California for imposing restrictions that the majority justices said jeopardized national security in an effort to protect the environment. MFA sonars send intense pulses of noise through the water [...]

I like pigs, but not to eat.

Slate cartoon on swine flu and Mexico

My swine flu cartoon (H1N1 cartoon), up on the first page of Slate today, has gotten some attention from Google, new followers on Twitter, and my first hate mail. See, now this is being a REAL editorial cartoonist. Well, the cartoon is about swine flu and Mexico, really, and I concentrated on Mexico, because swine [...]