Posts featuring Cartoons
Checkpoint Clackamas + Website Renovations
Saturday, June 16, 2012

I was very busy this week finally getting a redesign for This is Historic Times online, so I didn’t have time to draw a new cartoon for the site. In the meantime, the above is an illustration I drew for the Portland Mercury a couple of weeks ago. The graphics editor at the paper was responsible for the overall creative concept, although most of the details were left up to me.
Here’s a link to the Mercury’s article on the topic…
Technical Knockout
Saturday, June 9, 2012

Tags: boxer, boxing, boxing gloves, cheater, cheating, corporate influence, corporate tax breaks, horseshoe, recall, Scott Walker, Super PACs, tax cuts for the rich, tax cuts for the wealthy, unions, Wisconsin, Wisconsin protests, Wisconsin recall
Bulls***
Saturday, June 2, 2012

I’ve been going too easy on President Obama lately. His Administration’s policy of bombing “suspected terrorists” in unmanned drone strikes has drawn criticism, recently, for the danger it represents to innocent civilians who might just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time…
Mitt Romney: American Psycho
Saturday, May 26, 2012

That’s not a face that just says, “I’m RICH, biatch!!” That’s a face that says, “I’ll demolish the house in La Jolla before anyone thinks to look for the bodies“…
Somebody Call The Whambulance
Saturday, May 19, 2012

Tags: bank, Chase, clown hammer, corporate deregulation, deregulation, Dr. GOP, elephant, giant mallet, GOP, GOP elephant, J.P. Morgan, Republican, Republicans
Political Auction Committees
Friday, May 11, 2012

Several weeks ago, I read an article discussing how much Mitt Romney had to spend per vote to win the Republican nomination, as well as the projected influence of Super PACs over the 2012 Presidential Election. The headline alone had me immediately reflecting on how the Presidency, as well as most significant political power, is more often bought than it is earned…
Charity Cases
Saturday, April 28, 2012

Do you have any idea how hard it is to raise five boys and dressage horses on a family income of only a quarter of a billion dollars? No?? Well then DON’T SCOFF Ann Romney’s choice to be a “stay-at-homes” mom!!
Yuckin’ It Up
Saturday, April 21, 2012

Tags: capitalism, cigar, climate change, Earth Day, environmental impact, environmentalism, factory, global warming, hurricanes, Mr. C.E.O., smoke, smokestacks, tornados, weather, yuck
Standing His Ground
Saturday, April 14, 2012

Tags: axe, axe murder, battle axe, beard, brute, Florida, George Zimmerman, horned helmet, if your favorite metal album were a political cartoon, law, murder, murderer, savage, shield, spikes, Stand Your Ground, Stand Your Ground law, thug, Trayvon Martin, viking, viking warrior
Choose Your Poison
Saturday, April 7, 2012

Tags: Barack Obama, Centrist Democrats, corporate deregulation, deficit, healthcare, healthcare reform, Medicaid, Medicare, Obama, patent medicine, Paul Ryan, placebo, poison, prescription, quack medicine, Reaganomics, Republican, Republicans, Roger Ailes, snake oil, sugar pills, tax cuts for the rich