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      • Arnold Gives McCain a lift
        01/31/08


      • Bill Clinton Goes on Likability Tour
        01/30/08


        Super quick one.... I really need more time.

      • State of the Union
        01/29/08


        It's been impossible to find time to draw the last few days. Leaf has been sick and we got dumped on with snow. I spent this morning shoveling. I scribbled the above cartoon together in less than an hour. Not good. I would love to find time to redo it.

        As for the S

      • Musharraf Leaves for Europe
        01/27/08


        Half-way quick one... I would have liked to redrawn it, but eh.

        Musharraf again... This guy and what he is dealing with in Pakistan is really unbelievable. There should be an additional big cat in the picture, and it should be the U.S.

        Going through a lot of pens

      • French Bank Bilked Out of Billions
        01/26/08


        In sticking with the trend of drawing fun things, I decided to draw a stereotypical French guy. The French are always free game, right? Just like Americans...

        With this story, I first thought about drawing the "rogue trader" who pulled off the scheme and adding deta

      • Immunity for Contractors
        01/25/08


        Unfortunately, I ran out of time this morning and had to upload the picture tonight. This also required a bit of touch-up in Photoshop. That said, this is the type of sketch that can take hours and hours, because there is something er, wonderful? about drawing big critters with weapons

      • Ben Bernanke Flaps Wings
        01/24/08


      • Fred Thompson Out of Race
        01/23/08


        More speed drawing.... I'm almost under an hour now..

      • South Carolina Dem Debate
        01/22/08


        This is called "speed drawing"... I really have no choice until I get my schedule in order.

      • MLK Against the War
        01/21/08


        Having serious Photoshop issues today... I screwed up the settings somehow, can't erase or draw properly, and keep locking layers when I do not want to... I need to spend a lot more time with it.

        This drawing (and yesterdays), also have me a bit disheartened about the w

      • Detroit Auto Show 2008
        01/20/08


        I did the same three-pass method here, except this time I made the initial drawing even more scribbly. It may be too much... Also, with the brontosaurus I had to use another sheet of paper and cut-n-paste-shrink him using Photoshop... hence, the different resolution. I couldn't g

      • Bobby Fischer Dies
        01/19/08


        I decided to take a shot at one of these political cartoon obituaries... I noticed quite of few cartoonist did one after Edmund Hillary and Evil Knievil died. To be honest, I think they are kind of stupid. Typically they show the person doing something they are famous for while making

      • US Economy Rowboat
        01/18/08


        I didn't have any good ideas this morning so I just drew a random economy outlook cartoon. It does not feel very creative, but it is practice...

        I totally dropped the Sharpie for the last couple cartoons. It means the fills take a little a longer, but it feels like th

      • FDA Allows Cloned Meat
        01/17/08


        My brother suggested I work a bit more on the most basic of illustrating skills-- line weight. This is specifically important for lines that forms seams, edges, and overhangs. He said it would help the objects I draw "pop." This makes a lot of sense to me and I'm determ

      • George of Arabia
        01/16/08


        This cartoon is a simple bit of irony which many other cartoonists picked up on: George Bush made a trip to the Middle East, promoting peace, but in the end sells missiles to the Saudi's and tries to get every country he stops at to unite against Iran. I thought George hanging out

      • Elephant as Economy
        01/15/08


        Quick and messy... I haven't drawn for six days, so I'm trying to get back in the swing of things. I had to drive to Denver with our stuff from storage. Miserable schedule.

        One comment. My brother thought I needed more contrast in the scribble style. This means

      • McCain Wins New Hampshire
        01/09/08


        Well, for better or worse, I think I landed on a style... and speaking of "For Better or Worse," wouldn't it be cool if Lynn Johnston did a violent-seventies-drug-infested cop comic... sort of like Dirty Harry... instead of her silly family pseudo-drama. She has the 70�

      • Clemens Investigates Steroids
        01/08/08


        I did a little "reigning" in here of the messy style. When doing Roger Clemens, I did three passes. One pass was a clean thin-lined illustration (could be cleaner still). The second pass was a squiggle fill. This was followed by a final Sharpie-fill pass, which on this draw

      • Hillary on the Bench
        01/07/08


        I've been looking on Cagle and elsewhere... a lot of good cartoons of Hillary's demise in Iowa. A lot of the artists employed the word, "inevitable," which I thought was interesting. It captures a somewhat obvious thought that is floating around, but not quite on th

      • Candidates Agree!
        01/06/08


        So, yow, I have no idea what happened here. I went a bit to the extreme in this style. One thing I tried to do was eliminate all cross-hatching. This meant I did a lot of shading with wiggle-squiggles... which actually I sort of like. I think I need to reign it in some... maybe sss

      • Musharrif the Adjuster
        01/05/08


        Switched the font on this one... I like the child-like scrawl of Kristen ITC (something I found on PS) better than Comic Sans. Until I can design my own font, this will have to work.

        I really like drawing Musharrif. He is like a British fuddy-duddy, turned dictator. I espec

      • East African Insane Asylum
        01/04/08


        I'm starting to notice some tics in my drawing that I hope evolve into a more signature style. One is the circles for cheeks. I've been doing this for a long time, but it really seemed to come out in this drawing when I was trying to draw the Africans. I worry a bit about ma

      • Double Negative Advertising
        01/03/08


        Yesterday I went to the art store to try and get a refillable pen. Unfortunately the only refillable pens they had were calligraphy pens. They suggested I go to an office supply specialty shop. In the meantime, I'm stuck with my throw-away Rosearts...

        Not much to say a

      • New Year Diaper
        01/01/08


        I had to do a new year's drawing... I had a bunch of random ideas, but ended up with a global warming gag. Need to get back into a routine. I painted a mural in San Diego with Bhutto on it. Need to get Monet's camera so I can upload it...

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