Angel Of Death

Props for Putin

I drew the rough for this cartoon last Thursday but passed it over for a few other ideas. But I liked it and hoped to squeeze it in eventually. I’ve always enjoyed drawing the Angel of Death and wanted to take my shot at Putin’s ridiculously long table. I also knew Putin would come through and give me a horrible reason to draw it. Putin came through.

We’ve always known Vladimir Putin wasn’t a nice guy, but did we know he was this terrible? Did we know he’d be willing to murder children for his tiny frail ego? Yesterday, the fascist dictator bombed a maternity hospital in Mariupol. Putin has gone from dropping figurative bombs on democratic elections to dropping literal bombs on baby hospitals.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said without evidence today that there were no patients in the hospital and it was occupied by “Ukrainian militants.” Never mind footage of pregnant women being dug out from under the rubble. I’m shocked they’re not claiming all those future mothers are about to give birth to baby Nazis.

So far, three deaths have been confirmed along with 17 injured, which includes patients and hospital staffers. The Mariupol city council said the strike had caused “colossal damage”, and published footage showing burned-out buildings, destroyed cars, and a huge crater outside the hospital. The BBC has confirmed the location of the video.

Mariupol Deputy Mayor Serhiy Orlov told the BBC, “”We don’t understand how it’s possible in modern life to bomb a children’s hospital. People cannot believe that it’s true.”

It is hard to believe anyone would want to bomb a children’s hospital. But then again, it’s hard to believe one European country would invade another in 2022. But the same Russian who said the hospital was full of militants also said Russia has NOT attacked Ukraine. Russian officials do not want you to believe your eyes.

President Volodymyr Zelensky issued another video, this time in Russian instead of Ukrainian. He wants the people of Russia to see and hear this. In the video, which Marco Rubio has probably already used as a photo-op and shared the location of, Zelensky said, “What kind of a country is Russia, that it is afraid of hospitals and maternity wards and destroys them?”

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson ceased party-hopping long enough to say, “There are few things more depraved than targeting the vulnerable and defenseless”.

On Wednesday, the deputy mayor said at least 1,170 civilians had been killed in the city since Russia began its bombardment, and 47 people there were buried in a mass grave. The Red Cross says the city remains without electricity, water, and food and people are dying of dehydration. Evacuations have been cut off from the Russian military surrounding the city.

Now that Vladimir Putin has added baby hospitals to his list of civilian targets, there is no more uncertainty the man is a war criminal and should be brought up on war crimes in the Hague and forced to spend the rest of his life in the former jail cell of Slobodan Milošević. It will take the Russian people to overthrow Putin and send him away for good.

Putin is a tiny man who refuses to even acknowledge his murdering of civilians, not to mention being held accountable. The man won’t even acknowledge he’s started a war.

The only table Vladimir Putin should be seated at is in a prison cafeteria.

Music Note: This cartoon didn’t take very long to draw so I didn’t get a chance to listen to much music while shading and coloring, but I squeezed in some songs by the Zombies.

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DeathSantis

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Remember that time I wrote I would try not to use the Angel of Death for Ron DeSantis in my next cartoon? You know…yesterday. I failed.

I had another idea but then I got this one. I thought instead of avoiding what has now become a cliché, take that cliché, the Grim Reaper, and make it part of the point of the cartoon. The point here isn’t just to make fun of other cartoonists for using the same concept over and over (and that’s part of it), but that if so many are using it, then there must be something to it.

There is something to it. Ron DeSantis, that Florida Man governor, is ignoring science for a cheap political payoff. This guy will endanger the lives of Floridians, through children, for his own political gain. Ron DeSantis is not just running for reelection for governor…he’s running for president. And the scary thing is, it works in Florida.

The risk to children is not as great as it is to adults. Out of the over 600,000 who have been killed by covid in the United States, only a little over 400 have been children. One avoidable death of a child is too many, but less than one percent is a very low rate. But, the risk to children is rising with the Delta Variant…which can now be called the DeSantis Variant.

It’s not just death that’s a tragedy when it involves a child. Hospitalization of a child is a tragedy, and those are increasing…especially in Florida. This isn’t just a risk to children. There is a danger that infected children will give the coronavirus to more vulnerable adults.

One thing that could help with all this would be if Donald Trump made a public service announcement for vaccines. The entire messaging from the right would change overnight. Sure, they’d claim they always championed vaccines and gaslight the hell out of it, but if it saves lives, so be it. If more adults are vaccinated, it will definitely help prevent the virus being transmitted to children under the age of 12 who can’t be vaccinated.

Right now, Ron DeSantis isn’t banning face masks in schools. What he is banning are schools mandating face masks. Do you remember when Republicans used to claim they were about local governments. Remember when they were against big government making decisions for local boards? With this, Ron DeSantis is taking control away from local school boards. He’s being big government while claiming he’s protecting Florida from big government. This is standard Republican logic.

Ron DeSantis says parents should have the freedom to decide if their kids will wear face masks. Ignoring science, he’s decided that parents have the freedom to decide if their kids can kill other people’s kids.

Ron DeSantis claims he’s standing in big government’s way to protect freedom…so he’s standing in local government’s way. Ron DeSantis is no champion of freedom and he’s no angel. But he is the Grim Reaper.

Update: I’ve been asked on my blog, Facebook, Twitter, FB Messenger, and in email so I should just come clean about it now. I DO NOT own a pair of pink bunny slippers. Sorry.

Creative note: Even though I draw my cartoons on a tablet, I will usually make my cartoonists in cartoons drawing on paper on a drafting table. But I decided to make this one more realistic to my situation, despite not actually owning pink bunny slippers. My table looks kinda like this, I have a CNN coffee mug, there is not a tree outside my window (it’s a roof of a Tex-Mex restaurant), and there aren’t pizza boxes laying around my studio. The last time I got Pizza Hut, which I normally like, I could only eat half of it. It was gross. There is a lot of other stuff on my table.

Signed prints: The signed prints are just $40.00 each. Every cartoon on this site is available. You can pay through PayPal. If you don’t like PayPal, you can snail mail it to Clay Jones, P.O. Box 9103, Fredericksburg, VA 22403. I can mail the prints directly to you or if you’re purchasing as a gift, directly to the person you’re gifting.

Notes on my book, Tales From The Trumpster Fire: here are SIX copies of my book in stock, which go for $45.00 each, signed. Also, I have copies of my first book from 1997, Knee-Deep in Mississippi available for $20.00.

Tip Jar: if you want to support the cartoonist, please send a donation through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com. You can also snail it to P.O. Box 9103, Fredericksburg, VA 22403.

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