Posts tagged "Uncle Sam"
Fall Street
Saturday, August 13, 2011
I developed this cartoon following the see-sawing stock market earlier in the week. I wanted to do something with the Depression-era cliche of the ruined investor jumping from a building, but since it seemed corporate stocks were bound to weather the debt-ceiling storm better than the average American, I also wanted to show a character symbolizing average Americans bearing most of the burden…
Neo Cons
Saturday, July 16, 2011
This cartoon compares this blatant economic trickery to the “shell game” or cup-and-ball routine, both of which being sleight-of-hand used for centuries to con desperate or unsuspecting dupes out of money by presenting them with what appears to be a simple gambling game which is in fact impossible to win…
Powder Keg
Monday, July 4, 2011
Tags: 4th of July, debt, debt ceiling, deficit, Economy, explosive, explosives, fireworks, fuse, gunpowder, homeless, Independence Day, jobless, national debt, poor, Uncle Sam
War Ink
Friday, May 20, 2011
There’s a lot of finger-pointing going on in Congress and around the country as to the blame for the budget mess. I feel the recent explosion in the deficit has a lot to do with cutting taxes, especially on corporations, while waging an incredibly wasteful, multi-front war for the purpose of funneling money to war profiteers defense contractors…
Sam’s Club
Sunday, April 3, 2011
I do feel we have a legitimate humanitarian mission in Libya, but it’s hard to trust our government to treat it as anything other than yet another opportunity to put down an anti-US tinpot and distribute his country’s resources to extra-national corporations, instead of the people who live there…
There Will Be Blood
Thursday, March 17, 2011
This cartoon is mostly a response to people lamenting the recent increases in gas prices ostensibly caused by democratic protests against various Middle Eastern dictators, like Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi…
American Golgothic
Friday, December 24, 2010
This cartoon addresses Congress’s failure to pass the DREAM Act…
Fox (News) Retakes (Hen) House!
Thursday, November 4, 2010
The news that the GOP has retaken control of the House of Representatives is hardly surprising, and it’s not as if the Democrats were doing anything they were put there to do…
Hot Rod
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Tags: car bomb, car keys, car wreck, grand theft auto, Iraq, Iraq War, Uncle Sam
American Chopper
Friday, May 14, 2010
This is an idea that’s appeared and re-appeared in my sketchbook in various forms for years. The main thing that’s prevented me from drawing it before now was I had a lot of trouble coming up with a design for Uncle Sam that I felt looked good…