Category: Sad Cartoons

Haiti, this is the first time I ever thought about you.

Gary Markstein from gocomics.com

But now I’ll never forget you. The story and images coming from Haiti after the earthquake were so shocking  and grievous that it didn’t even occur to me to do a cartoon about it. I felt that tragedies like  this couldn’t be summed up in an image or drawing. More importantly, that cartoonists would be [...]

Ted Rall and Donna Barstow: Separated at Birth?

capital punishment cartoon

Ted Rall is a liberal who hates most things President Obama has done this year. I am (mostly) conservative, who thinks Obama is doing a decent job, although I can’t point out anything in particular that is great. So we’re kind of going in opposite directions, but I enjoyed pointing out to him recently on [...]

Who set the Angeles Station Forest Fire?

smokey bear cartoon

If you tell me, I’ll share the $150,000 reward with you, 50- 50.
It’s unbelievable, this wretched fire is still burning in places, several weeks later. KHTS:
The Station Fire is 94 percent contained, with full containment now expected September 22. So far, the incident has consumed 160,557 acres of the Angeles National Forest which has not [...]

9/11 Cartoon in 2009.

9/11 September 11 memorial cartoon

I have a growing collection of Sad Cartoons, it appears. I could have put this in the Holiday category, but that wouldn’t have been appropriate, when this is a memorial cartoon for September 11.
I forget that holidays are big in newspapers. Newspapers, and in schools! I never forget what happened that day, of course, but [...]

Dansette