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 [...]

I got the interesting note below from my buddy, Danish cartoonist Werner Wejp Olsen.  See our Lockerbee Bomber Freed cartoons here.

Hi Daryl:
I wonder if this story may be relevant/suitable for your newsletter:
I have a rather strange and macabre story to tell in connection with the release of the terrorist responsible for the Pan Am Flight [...]

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 are three recent cartoons from Mana Neyestani, the Iranian cartoonist who was jailed by the government for his cartoons, and who fled Iran to Malaysia.  Read more about Mana here and see the cartoon that landed him in jail.  (Thanks to Nik Kowsar.)

I just had an interesting telephone conversation with my friend, Nik Kowsar. Nik was a top editorial cartoonist in Iran until his cartoons became too much of an irritant to the regime and he was thrown into the notorious Evin Prison. Nik left Iran for Canada where he now lives and he works [...]

I was asked to speak about the future of syndication on panels at the National Cartoonists Society convention this week and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention in July. The subject is a burning issue for cartoonists – burning a hole in the wallets of many cartoonists, as newspapers seem to be fading away [...]

People are always asking me to post my rough sketches for my cartoons.  Sometimes the sketch is just too messy, and broken up into little parts to be understandable, but here’s the rough sketch for my most recent cartoon, about those AIG crooks.

We often post collections of cartoons by my internet buddy and brilliant greeting card artist, Dan Reynolds. I was saddened to hear that Dan has cancer.  Visit our great collection of healthcare cartoons by Dan.  He sent me this note:
Hi Daryl,
I wanted to share with your readers a life experience I’ve been going through since [...]

Friday (2/27/09) is the last day of publication for the Rocky Mountain News, as another excellent cartoonist, Ed Stein loses his job. Ed sent me his last cartoon and his last blog post for the paper.  Ed’s cartoons will continue on our site as he will keep drawing for syndication.
 Well, folks, this is the last [...]

I got this note from Mary Poole, Corky Trinidad’s editor at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.  Memorial cartoons from Corky’s cartoonist friends in Hawaii are below.
Hi, Daryl,
About 300+ people  attended Corky’s funeral Mass on Sunday at the Newman Center on UH campus. It is a small Catholic center run by Jesuits, so small that packing in that [...]