Does a quack really have no echo?

Running for what? Who?

Happy Thanksgiving

Celebrating the new majority

Licking their chops

Little Smokies

It took a long time in PhotoShop to make those documents look aflame.

Not so inteligent

I took a lot of time learning tricks in Adobe PhotoShop to give Washington the look he has, rolling his eyes with the raised eyebrow. Too bad that I haven't really got my "G.W. Bush 43" down pat yet.

In the shadows

I'm not saying these guys are fascists, but...

I don't know about Nussle anymore, but you can read more about how Steve King feels about immigrants on KingWatch.org

The most wonderful time of the year

Hogan!!!!

¡Hola??! ¡Un qué idiota! ¿Una pared de la frontera? ¡La manera de hacer que los Estados Unidos parecen la Soviet-unio'n con nuestro muy posee la pared de Berlín! ¿Usted sabía que el rey representativo intentó dar contratos a construyó esta pared a la empresa de la construcción de sus propios hijos? ¡Por favor, los votantes de Latino en el 5to districto de Iowa, ensamblan juntos para quitar a este idiota de oficina!

Click here to learn about his scheme to get the United States Government to build a wall between the United States and Mexico -- a scheme which would line Mr. King's pockets with millions of taxpayer dollars.

Spasms

I know that the real prominent feature on the Secretary is the gap in her teeth, but I think she has mean lookin' eyes- so that's what I went with. Here's the original sketch-

Ioweagan Home Companion

Here are a couple of fun ones from 2006 that I don't have exact dates for. Both of these are pretty unique to Iowa.

Above is the proof when I put the whole page together for the newspaper. Below is a "tare-sheet" (the actual published page).Maid-Rite is a local Iowa fast food chain, they actually sell these things. It's an acquired taste. I'm a transplant from out West. Jello-salad grows on ya.

I swear deer seem to reproduce in Iowa faster than rats in New York City. They have fawns faster than motorists can hit them. Needless to say my own fender inspired this cartoon about animal jihadists.

Say it aint so, Joe

Hail Hell to the King!

Our 5th District Congressman is a real dream!

Red Herring

Sort of a pet peeve of mine; emotional wedge issues that distract from genuine policy issues. Grrrr

This was the first cartoon in about a 2 year run for the small stable of newspapers in Western Iowa. First in the Charter Oak-Ute Newspaper and Schleswig Leader, printed by Lyon Publishing. The Lyons sold their three papers to Enterprise Publishing, who's HQ is in Blair NE. Eventually Enterprise folded the NEWSpaper and the Leader into their parent paper, the Mapleton PRESS, but they began running my column & cartoon in the PRESS.

It usually burns up on re-entry

July 2006, STS-121; "An analysis of the inspections revealed the presence of bird droppings on the leading edge of the right wing. The launch director has said he saw droppings in that location before launch. During the crew press conference on landing day the crew joked about the bird droppings indicating that they were still present on the orbiter though rather charred." (Wikipedia)

I just decided to post this under today's date, I don't remember what day it ran in the Charter Oak-Ute NEWSpaper back in the summer of '06.

That wasn't the only bird trouble this shuttle had- "STS-121 was the first launch during which NASA took special precautions to deter vultures, particularly the local turkey vultures, from flying over the area. Efforts included the swift removal of roadkill and other dead animals from areas around the launch site." (also Wikipedia)

"Sometimes you're the windshield
Sometimes you're the bug"
~Dire Straights

Pledge of Religious

Spaghetti Western

Here's an illustration I did for the feature layout done on a Community Fund-Raiser/Theater entitled "The Saga of Sagebrush Sal" that ran in our local Charter Oak-Ute NEWSpaper

Go Bulldogs!

In case you didn't know it, I coach high school cheerleading. This cartoon was inspired by a great friend and former student, Kenny- who was our first mascot. Believe me, mascots can be surreal, at least Kenny's surreal.

H. Ross Perot

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.

Hand bill for my college Senior show

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.'

Too wierd for small town Iowa

Have you heard the one about the Art Major and the Farmer's Daughter?
The summer we got married was our town's Centennial and we both worked for the local newspaper, the Charter Oak-Ute NEWSpaper. Somehow, I talked the Publishers into running some of my cartoons for the next couple of years. I don't know when any of these actually ran, and in fact a couple of them may have ran in the college newspaper too, or instead. So I guessed the year and labeled this post on National Cartoonist Day of that year (May 5). Although, hay bales are usually something you see later in the summer and in the fall. Two of my best friends bought the original of the Elvis one at my Senior show and had it hanging in their basement for years. That was really sweet of them. Somebody make me famous so that it will be worth something for them. Thanks.

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!

Esoteric theology

So I was re-reading some of "Short Meditations on the Bible and Peanuts" c. 1990 by Robert Short (author of "The Gospel According to Peanuts" 1965 and "Parables of Peanuts"1968), and it once again highlighted for me how much I prefer Kierkegaard to Hegel both philosophically and theologically and that prompted me to remember this cartoon I did for my college newspaper. A Lutheran college. I dawned on me that Bill Waterson probably named his strip after Protestant John Calvin ("liberal" theology compared to Martin Luther's) and Philosopher Thomas Hobbes (sort of the opposite of John Locke) who believed that human nature is brutish, selfish and immature. Anyway, even at Concordia University, Nebraska- where they prepare more professional church workers and pre-seminary candidates than any other Missouri-Synod college, this cartoon was still hopelessly obscure and esoteric. No wonder one syndicate told me that people should be able to "get" a cartoon faster without having to read or think as much as they have to with my "Mal•Adjusted" panel.

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!