This is last Sunday's cartoon for the CNN Opinion newsletter. It went from this... ...to this. Here are a few ideas I created as I stumbled on my way to meet another deadline. Welcome to another edition of Clay's Butcher Shop. It's gonna get disgusting. Sometimes when I look back on an idea like this,... Continue Reading →

Can you believe it's only been a little over a week since the entire Iran thing happened? Yeah, look it up. It was last Thursday that Soleimani was assassinated on Donald Trump's orders. Since that happened last Thursday night, that canceled out everything I roughed out on Thursday. The main issue I was focusing on... Continue Reading →

It's been about two weeks since I posted any roughs. I'm not going to post every idea I sloppily sketched out since then, but I'll post the more significant ones today. I don't draw a lot of holiday-themed cartoons. I didn't go with this one either. Here's a good example of how not everything works.... Continue Reading →

  Hey, kids. Here are several roughs I drew last week. Honestly, I think the majority of them fall flat. I need to become a better cartoonist. This cartoon is close to what I sent to CNN. This one is even closer. Here's the first of the mehs. As you can see, I was going... Continue Reading →

I'm a few days late posting these, but check out a few roughs from Thanksgiving week. I drew most of these while in Washington, D.C. the day before Thanksgiving. I finished this one for CNN. I liked this one and I drew it for my newspapers. Did you see the E.T. commercial? I liked where... Continue Reading →

I only drew nine roughs last week. I gave this cartoon to CNN for their weekly opinion newsletter. I really liked the giant phone because it makes Trump appear more childish...if that's possible. I drew this one for my newspaper clients. I've drawn the Nixon tattoo on Roger Stone's back before. I have to admit,... Continue Reading →

I have a whole slew of rough sketches to show you today. What's a "slew?" It means a "crapload," and some of these are crap. This idea was poo. I knew it while I was drawing it. A little brutal? I like it but it deviated from my subject. This was kind of a mess... Continue Reading →

I drew a LOT of roughs for last Sunday's CNN Opinion newsletter. The newsletter covers several subjects in the news. It's often looking toward the week ahead. The lead is the first subject and we aim to have my cartoon covering that. I start by throwing ideas at them but usually, we're not sure what... Continue Reading →

Here are the roughs I submitted for last week's CNN Opinion newsletter. This was the cartoon we went with. I changed it up a bit for the final version. Rich, my editor, said, "you just had to include a "covfefe," didn't you?" Yes, I did. I threw that in for the final version, but I... Continue Reading →