It's after 8 P.M. so sorry, you're not getting a chunky and informative blog today. I wrote this idea Thursday night in Huntsville but the rough was staged a lot differently than what you see here. I started drawing this cartoon at the Huntsville Airport but since I couldn't check my bag in for a... Continue Reading →
Biggest Numbers
Here’s your cartoon for this week’s CNN Opinion Newsletter. Please sign up to get these in your inbox every Sunday So there I was, sitting in a bar in the Atlanta Airport when breaking news hit that the jury in the Trump trial had a verdict after a little more than nine hours of deliberations. I wasn't in... Continue Reading →
Cult Wives Club
So if the judge presiding over the Trump hush money case should recuse himself because his daughter is politically active, then shouldn't Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito recuse themselves as well because their wives are also VERY politically active? It's the same thing with Trump and all the MAGAts who repeat his... Continue Reading →
Rita Hayworth
I'm tired, so you're going to get a short blog. I've been in the habit over the past several months of only having to draw for CNN on Fridays. My newspaper clients get seven cartoons each week from me. I will draw two cartoons on either Wednesday or Thursday. This week, I drew two on... Continue Reading →
Flags Of Our Alitos
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote a letter to Democratic lawmakers explaining that he won't recuse himself from ruling on two cases connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, white nationalist terrorist attack on the Capitol to reinstall the losing candidate, Trump, into the White House, but that he's also obligated to hear the cases despite... Continue Reading →
GLOAT
During closing arguments yesterday in Trump's hush money trial, the defense lawyer, Todd Blanche, worked to discredit the prosecution's main witness, Michael Cohen, as the MVP of liars and called the GLOAT, the Greatest Liar Of All Time. One of his arguments was that Donald Trump's reimbursements (in installments) to Michael Cohen, for paying off... Continue Reading →
No Crying In Baseball
In the 1989 film Field of Dreams, where a farmer constructs a baseball field in an Iowa cornfield so baseball ghosts can return and play the game, Shoeless Joe Jackson, played by Ray Liotta, tells Ray, the farmer played by Kevin Costner, that Ty Cobb wanted to come along and play but they "told him... Continue Reading →
SCOTUS Red Tie Brigade
Republicans don't trust our legal system. Several high-profile Republicans attended portions of the New York Trump trial to show their support to who House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the Insurrectionist-in-Chief. Jeffries also gave the group of MAGAts the name, Red Tie Brigade. There was something weird about the group's show of support for Trump,... Continue Reading →
OpenAI Fail
I hate Artificial Intelligence. I put it right up there with ketchup on hotdogs, spammers, robocalls, Nickelback, Kars-4-Kids commercials, pineapple pizza, the anonymous cartoonist, Ted Nugent, cartoonists who tracer, cartoonists who only draw a caricature once and then copy and paste it for the rest of their careers, anyhoo, people who use their speakerphone in... Continue Reading →
Former Anti-Trumper Club
Here’s your cartoon for this week’s CNN Opinion Newsletter. Please sign up to get these in your inbox every Sunday I had a different editor this week at CNN and I pitched one idea on Thursday night and a lot more on the train to Washington, DC the next morning. It was while I was waiting at the... Continue Reading →