Posts tagged: new yorker

Wordless Wednesday: Not ready for primetime Slate cartoon.

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Ahhh, I tried. But Wordless Wednesday isn’t for me. I’m a cartoonist, and we believe a picture is worth a 1,000 words, so long as we write some of those words. I wrote this as a New Yorker style cartoon. Okay, it’s sex play, role play. Do you have a problem with that? I suppose [...]

I only use Paul Newman’s legendary salad dressing.

I heart Paul Newman! Not so much for his movies, although he was great – but for entering my own life by doing movies on location, where I found him in person. I was dating the special effects guy on one film, and I remember he had to build a special sweat hut so Paul [...]

The witches of Macbeth take their elections seriously.

“Add hair of Sarah, eyerolls of McCain, wool of Obama, and Biden’s slip of the tongue…and we get a pretty tasty election!” © D. Barstow, 2008 I hope you don’t have to know Macbeth to understand this cartoon; just a rudimentary knowledge of witches is helpful, however. They do like to cook, they have unusual [...]

Sarah Palin cartoon is a five-letter word.

Sarah Palin cartoon, pit bull and barracuda circling

I don’t know, tell me. I don’t do crossword puzzles, I do Soduku. (Actually, my favorites are logic problems.) But you know who they’re talking about here, right? Did I get the animals right? And the word they might be thinking of? Only a few more days left to love this cartoon! Not to say [...]

Debating candidates for Dancing with the Stars cartoon.

Dancing with the Stars cartoon vs the election

I love ‘em both: Dancing with the Stars, and the debates. They’re both exciting, in their carefully preplanned, not really spontaneous way. This is a rough, in case you wondered. Love the slashing energy. I wonder who she’s talking with. Next up: foxtrot, with Obama and Palin, and Argentine tango with McCain and Biden. Watch [...]