Cartoon for the July 31, 08 PRESS

Elvis is IN the building, no wait, today he's still in Germany. Will it be another JFK? Or would that be counter productive? Is it too soon to come off too presidential?

Has anyone told McCain that there is no Chezkslovakia anymore, that Iraq and Afghanistan don't share a border, that Iran was training Hamas members, not Al Queda members, or how to use the internet? Is he senile or just dumb? And if Obam had made the same mistakes- especially in say a 2 week period, wouldn't the media have eaten him alive? And here's another thing- (and please forgive me for using these ugly words, it's just to make a point) if it's wrong for Jesse Jackson to use the word "nigger," why is it okay for McCain to use the word "Gook?" Isn't it insanely racist against Asians?

There was a time when I had patience for, even a level of comfort with McCain, but I just can't seem to take him seriously anymore.

The jilted lover threatens her ex

Sketchbook

Here's the grayscale version that will run in the PRESS. Below is a composite of the five sketchbook pages that went into the cartoon, and a picture I took of myself shooting myself in the head with a highlighter in order to visualize what taking a hostage might look like.

Whatever works

At the rate she's going, she may still be able to snatch defeat for the Democrats from the mouth of victory! I don't know how well I did at drawing Hillary this time, but I'm pretty proud of my Harold Ickes and Terry McAuliffe!

Usually my columns and cartoons are pretty independent of each other, but this week the compliment each other pretty well. Click here to read "Confession is good for the soul" from the March 13 Mapleton PRESS.

Didn't Samsonite used to have a gorilla?

Editorial cartoon for the January 31 Mapleton PRESS

Whew! This took a while. The stupid Clintons constantly attacking Obama was too easy, like shooting fish in a barrel- everybody's doing it. I thought about a roller-coaster for the stock market, but I've seen a lot of people do that one too. So then I got to thinking about a conversation with a very dear "moderate" (recovering-Republican) friend the other day. He hates Bush and likes Obama best, but figures that any of the Republican candidates will do better than Bush did and fears that Hillary is a dangerous power-hungry freak. Granted, he's probably right, but I still have a tuck load of reasons not to vote for any kind of elephant. Thus, this cartoon.