I am all kinds of thrilled that I’ve been invited to submit political cartoons about the election to a major publication!!
I’ve never done any editorial cartoons before. (My father used to suggest that if I did them, I would be a “real” cartoonist, but fortunately – I think it wasn’t until he held my first book in his hands – that mantra has stopped, or at least slowed down. Well, here I am, Dad!)
I don’t know any cartoonists who mix the genres, actually; you’re either funny or serious, and I always choose funny! (Plus, what about those arrows and signs and symbols and nametags and scrawling ink splotches all over everything in editorial drawings? Kind of messy.)
I have certainly made my opinions known about Los Angeles political figures in my Los Angeles blog, but I’ve never thought of cartooning as my favorite way to prove anything. Words are faster. So no LA cartoons…but national politics are easier to find the humor in, I find!
