That sinking feeling

Trying a little too hard with the brush there, I think- but half-way decent caricatures of Clinton and Yeltsin for just being a young college kid

Clinton stuck with Saddam

In early 1993, Iraq enjoyed lobbing SCUD missiles at Israel. With Bush Sr. out of office people wondered if the new President would keep Iraq in line.

Holy Rollers

Way back in college (a Lutheran college no less), I had a problem with the hypocrisies of the religious right (which is neither).

Reagan/Bush Legacy

Fiscal responsibility has never been a Republican strong-suit, but labeling Democrats as fiscally irresponsible has been.

Look closely at the food in his dish

I can really see the influence of Pat Oliphant in this one I drew for my college newspaper, 'the Sower.'

Twentysomething

A feeble attempt at a college-age aimed comic strip. Sorry that it still has wax on it from where the college newspaper staff pasted it up.

Who needs revenue anyway?

I don't know the actual date in 1992 when this one ran in my college newspaper, 'the Sower' but I love the elephant I drew. Funny how 16 years later Republicans still claim to be the party of fiscal responsibility and try to make people fear how Democrats will tax and spend when they've been cutting taxes for the filthy rich and screwing the rest of us since 1981!

On the Back Burner

I never seem to have much luck whenever I've tried to draw Uncle Sam. But I still like the point I was trying to make.

Action Packed Viewing

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Fast forward to March 2003.

Nixon hailed as a national hero

I don't remember the publication date of this one in my college paper, but the Tiananmen Square uprising was in 1989 and the opera "Nixon in China" ran on Broadway 1983-87. All I know is that whatever the news item was that inspired this was an excuse for me to draw Nixon.

Reagan earns an Oscar

Miami's Nice

Don't you think that EVERY president should get to be a "War President?" It makes them look SO good!

Wolfe Tone

When I was a freshman in college I wanted to be more "edgy." I felt like my style in high school was too clean and Mort Walker-ish (Beetle Baily) so I came up with a coyote who wore a leather jacket and camouflage fatigues and listened to the Ramones. This was my "underground" cartoonist period.

But ever the pseudo-intellectual, I named him after an obscure eighteenth century Irish political philosopher, Theobald Wolfe Tone. I was also really into my Irish heritage at that time- U2, especially. This was a bad choice because right away people thought he was a wolf, not a coyote and they thought he was named after 80's rapper Tone Loc. Since I was drawing editorial cartoons rather than a strip with story lines and character development, he really wound up just being a distraction.