One fun thing about being an editorial cartoonist is that I sometimes get invited to strange places as a cartoon celebrity. I just finished a week in Algiers at their second annual comics festival. Algeria is a huge country, a former socialist member of the Soviet block and a former French colony in North Africa.

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 [...]

I’m sorry to write that two of my favorite political cartoonists have retired from our tiny profession.
Sandy Huffaker is one my cartoon heroes. When I was in college I was a big fan of his cartoons that were running every week in Time Magazine. Sandy worked as a regular editorial cartoonist for a newspaper when [...]

We get the same questions in the email box every day and I thought I would take some time out to respond to some of the most frequent ones.
You say you update the cartoons “every day” but I see lots of the same cartoons are up now that were there yesterday. What’s up with that?
The [...]

The fickle media is always the same - no one has ever noticed that, so I thought I would demonstrate. Here’s my latest cartoon, showing the fickle media “changing” from their fixation on Obama to Sarah Palin.
But it wasn’t long ago when we started the primary season, and the media went from blanket coverage of [...]