Roughs, Volume 196

I drew all these (except one) on Friday, August 25, in my hotel room in Atlanta. This was the day after Trump’s FOURTH arraignment. I had spent that Thursday standing in the Georgia sun with a heat index over 100 degrees without any water. I was a tired boy but you know me and I don’t take days off. Even after I left the Trump thing, I was stranded kinda in the middle of nowhere, waiting on an Uber.

Do you ever order a ride and the app says it’ll arrive in ten minutes for ten minutes? Yeah, I got one of those, and right before the car finally arrived, which was like 30 minutes after it had been ordered, the motherfucker canceled. I had to go through the wait all over again. Go fuck yourself, Atlanta Uber (actually, the ride I did get was driven by a very pretty and sweet medical student from Miami).

But, since I had spent that Thursday afternoon/evening running around with MAGAts, chasing Donald Trump’s stupid ass for the fourth time, standing on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere waiting on Ubers, and in the heat, I wasn’t in a mood to get a step ahead by drawing Friday’s cartoon for my syndicate on Thursday evening. What I did was go back to my hotel room, drink five bottles of water (I had stocked my room fridge with bottled water), take a shower, and then cool off at Hooters (Hey! Hey! Don’t you Hooters me. It was the closest place to my hotel that was open until midnight and I wanted beer and wings). While at Hooters and watching the news (I know. Hooters had the news on TV, but probably only because the preseason NFL game had just finished and it was on a local channel. One of the teams was the Atlanta Falcons), I got my idea for Friday and it was simple.

So, Friday morning, I woke up earlyish, around 7 a.m., drew my cartoon fairly quickly, got a quick breakfast at a Dunkins around the corner (Hey! Hey! Don’t you Dunkins me!), went back to my room and drew ten roughs for CNN. I was hoping to finish earlyish so I could have dinner with my friends in Atlanta, Deb and Wing (Hey! Hey! Don’t you Deb and Wing me!) which I did. I had the country fried steak (Hey! Hey! Don’t you country fried steak me!).

There are two in here that I seriously considered turning into official and completed cartoons, but I did not. This is one of them. This was the first idea I sent to my editor and it wasn’t the cartoon he wanted, but it was the right note. We were going to do a Trump mugshot cartoon. I was happy because it was the right subject to do and a good one. I think we could have gone with this one. I may go back to it down the road.

Despite the assignment being on Trump’s mugshot, I did this one anyway because it got in my head and I had to get it out. I also knew it was good and I’d be drawing it for my syndicate sometime the next day. I wasn’t sure when I’d draw it because I had a flight out of Atlanta the next morning. What happened was that I lucked out and got a window seat, an empty seat next to me on a very full airplane, had some elbow room, and started the cartoon while flying. It was the first I had ever done that. I finished the cartoon in the Amtrak Station near the Baltimore airport. That’s the first time I’ve ever done that too. Both times, my desk was on my knees which is a horrible way to draw. I think it worked out.

This was OK but I didn’t love it.

I think a lot of cartoonists will be doing stuff similar to this one.

I don’t know if this works. I’m not even sure what it means. Maybe the shirt just makes you look like a cultist stupid-ass moron.

This is the one CNN selected and I think it turned out pretty good. After it was approved, I decided to use the actual mugshot on all the shirts but first, I asked my editor if that was OK. He said, “Go for it.” I went for it. The next time I went to draw a Trump mugshot cartoon, I considered using the actual mugshot again but then decided it was played out.

This was another meh, but a good point.

This would have been too much work for a meh idea.

This was OK.

This is the second cartoon I seriously considered turning into a fully-grown cartoon, but shit got in the way. I still like it but I do believe the moment has passed. Dammit, I still like it. Maybe Putin will offer his condolences the next time he has a critic/opponent murdered and I can use it then.

This was NOT drawn in Atlanta. This was drawn yesterday and I was halfway through it when CNN informed me we were taking the week off for the Labor Day holiday. So, I turned it into yesterday’s cartoon.

So, which of these are your favorites?

Also: The incel troll dwelling in his mom’s basement came back and WordPress asked me to approve his comment. This time, I did not approve it. He was whining about being blocked and called me a few names and gaslighted a bit more, so I decided, fuck this guy. From now on, none of his comments will be approved and if he manages to slip through, he will be blocked once more. It takes more time for him to do this shit than it takes me to block him.

Now, if there are conservatives who want to leave comments disagreeing with my views, and my cartoons, and can have a civil debate beyond calling people libtards and Nazis and can somehow accomplish that without lying, gaslighting, or spreading conspiracy theories, you are more than welcome here. I will embrace you with an air hug (I don’t want to get anything icky on me).

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