Roughs, Volume 211

All 18 of these were drawn on Friday, January 19.

I really enjoyed the cold weather over the past couple of weeks. I took long walks when it was in the 20s and 30s and only turned my heat on when it got down to the teens. Today, it’s going to be in the 70s here in Virginia. During the chilly winter that was freaking most people out, I drew this and it didn’t go anywhere. but I had already drawn a few snowmen the week before.

This rough became a finished cartoon. There are people out there who don’t know how to read cartoons. At one liberal site, I was accused of making fun of the shooting.

This one didn’t go anywhere, but I do love the ketchup cartoons.

This one did not become a finished cartoon because the only point it made was that Trump is nasty. For me, it has to be a lot funnier to fly without good context. I thought there’d be a better way to make fun of the story about the sores on Trump’s hands while putting some context to it. I also felt there was a better way to point out something important like Trump telling his supporters they should risk their lives for him, and I did that with this cartoon.

This was my first idea on Nikki Haley claiming our nation has never been a racist country, but I went with this one which I’m very happy with. I didn’t sketch a rough for the first idea until after I had published my second, but I thought my editor at CNN should see it. I thought it’d be interesting to contrast Haley’s ignorance with Trump’s racism.

I got this idea while roughing out all the other ideas here as this story broke last Friday. I wasn’t able to find time to draw a finished version of this cartoon though I do like it.

I don’t like this one at all and it was drawn before the New Hampshire primary and even before Ron DeSantis dropped out. I also researched granite and I don’t think it actually comes in the form of boulders. Dammit, why couldn’t it have been the Boulder primary?

I didn’t like this one very much. I wasn’t afraid of it. I just don’t think it’s very good or believe that Tim Scott’s endorsement is really worthy of a cartoon.

I didn’t plan to finish this cartoon but changed my mind later when I needed a break from Trump and politics for a day. Of course, a lot of people made politics out of this.

This didn’t go anywhere but I do like the image of a dog peeing on Trump. Lucky dog.

This sucked but I saw the Blacks for Trump guy four times last year.

I drew this after all the preceding ideas had been rejected, and I started throwing anything against the wall to see what would stick. Fridays can be brutal. Don’t ever call or message me on a Friday which is when everybody wants to call and message me.

A lot of my ideas at this stage on a Friday suck.

I don’t remember if I sent this to my editor at CNN but I really liked it and it makes a point beyond saying Trump is gross and icky. I turned it into a finished cartoon the next day. I liked using the syphilis story to highlight Trump’s latest lies.

And then some ideas start to stick again. I liked this one and saved it for this week. I drew it on Monday and it was published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Meh.

I didn’t like this one as it both-sides the situation and I don’t want to equate Trump and Biden as if they’re equally bad. But editors love this stuff.

But the subject was assigned and reliving the 2020 election is a nightmare for me, but I still don’t want to both-sides it. So I at least made it funny. I think so anyway. I always like the trick in TV or movies when someone wakes from a nightmare only to find themselves in another nightmare.

Which of these are your favorites? I hope I don’t have to draw 18 ideas again today. Update: I only drew seven.

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