Sometimes I like to vary the dimensions of my cartoons. Most editorial cartoons are the same 1 1/2 wide by 1 tall, which fits the cartoon hole that newspapers keep open for the cartoon. Sometimes an odd sized cartoon will jar an editor into running something different.
I did today’s cartoon extra wide, but [...]

Lemmings are an evergreen concept for an editorial cartoons.  Here’s my latest lemming cartoon, about Obama and the Dems pushing for a health care plan.  First, the rough sketch:

Then I do a nice finished line drawing on a overlay, which is what most readers see in the newspaper.

… And then I color it for the [...]

Everyone tells me they like it when I post my messy rough skteches - so here are a couple of new ones.  The latest cartoon makes fun of how silly it is that Obama continues to try to coax the Republicans when the Dems and the GOP are so far apart.
I start with a messy [...]

Added 9/10/09: Here’s an interesting column about my Obama school speech cartoon (the cartoon is below) from a newspaper editor, responding to some very vocal complaints from readers who misunderstood the cartoon.
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 4:39 PM
Subject: Cartoon question
Dear Daryl,
I just got a surprise phone call from a reader who was mad at me because [...]

I know how you all like to see my sketches and I get lots of requests to explain my cartoons, so here is the latest one.
The goal with this one was to comment on the speculation that the Democrats would use sentiment about Teddy Kennedy’s death to push health care legislation, possibly by attaching Kennedy’s [...]

Readers seem to like it when I post my rough sketches, so here we go again, with my sketches for my last couple of cartoons.  The first one is the Obama Healthcare Caduceus.  I do the rough sketch in hard pencil on slick paper, so I’m not tempted to do details and render.

Then I trace [...]

Here’s my latest cartoon, and the rough sketch, for all of you who like to see the rough sketches.

These Cam Cardow, Brian Fairrington and Christo Komarnitsky cartoons about Obama cartoons amused me, so I’m posting them here.
 

Our newest MSNBC.com Cartoon Week in Review Slideshow is up now.
We have great new topical cartoon collections on BANK ROBBERS, BLAGO IMPEACHED, OBAMA and the ECONOMY and DASCHLE DROPS OUT.
Our new section PHELPS LIKES POT is fun to compare with the original Phelps cartoon collection from last year’s Olympics.
In our new cartoonist blogs, Steve Greenberg [...]

Obama seems like an easy guy to draw; he’s skinny, has a big chin, expressive eyebrows and lips. As it turns out, no matter how a cartoonist draws Obama, somebody gets mad.
When Obama burst into the presidential campaign cartoonists started drawing him as a caricature without much exaggeration. As time goes by, political figures morph [...]