Senator Lincoln Chafee was a gift to cartoonists last night; unfortunately I don’t think he’ll be around much longer… (see all the sketches at the Washington Post)
Category: politics
The Nib book
The Nib is publishing a hardbound book with some of its best political cartoons and comics journalism. There’s lots of great work by cartoonists Liza Donnelly, Matt Bors, Tom Tomorrow and Brian McFadden, to name a few and a couple of mine are in there as well. Head over to their kickstarter page to contribute:
Former Speaker of the House Hastert indicted
Former Illinois congressman Dennis Hastert, who was brought in as an ethical alternative to former Speaker Newt Gingrich, was indicted on federal charges of “prior misconduct” and lying to the FBI. Some cartoons from the archive:
The 7 GOP presidential dwarfs
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham says he’ll announce his candidacy for president on June 1st, which brings the official republican total to seven.
(click image to see all seven)
Another shooting and stupid speech
My latest at the Washington Post (click image for link)
Talking about free speech at the Library of Congress
Had a great turnout for our presentation at the Library of Congress on Thursday. I’ve decided my favorite fellow panelist is cartoonist Signe Wilkinson; an excellent presenter who manages to get the audience laughing even while delivering a really solid editorial punch. Now if I can just keep her alive (she’s a serial jay-walker. Had to grab her from oncoming traffic a couple of times during her Washington visit). 
Signe Wilkinson, me, and moderator Martha Kennedy
photos courtesy of Katharine Blood
Nerd Prom sketches
click here for all the sketches over at the Washington Post
An unethical relationship in Washington
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is tonight; watch the ridiculous event live on C-span.
(Click image for full cartoon at the Washington Post)
Garry Trudeau’s dangerous logic about Charlie Hebdo
(click on image for full column)
Hillary to announce her 2016 presidential run
The Guardian reports:
“The former secretary of state is scheduled to declare her second run for president on Twitter at noon eastern time on Sunday, the source told the Guardian, followed by a video and email announcement, then a series of conference calls mapping out a blitzkrieg tour beginning in Iowa and looking ahead to more early primary states.”
Looking back at the GW Bush presidency
I just returned from participating on a cartoonists panel looking back at the George W Bush presidency at Hofstra University in Long Island, NY. Our moderator was Roslyn Mazer, a great supporter of cartoonists’ free speech rights who represented the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists in an amicus brief for the famous Hustler v Falwell case in 1987. The other cartoonists on the panel were Mike Peters from the Dayton Daily News, Steve Breen from the San Diego Times Union-Tribune, and Mike Luckovich from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It’s always fun to get together with my colleagues and this particular group had me laughing most of the time. Especially Mike Peters. The evening before our panel Roslyn herded us to a local Italian restaurant (think The Sopranos) and watching Mike interact with our waiter was priceless.
The next day while we waited in the hospitality room before our panel I mentioned to Mike that the former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden was sitting over at the next table. Without missing a beat Mike rushed over to his table, introduced himself, and proceeded to ask the creator of the NSA warrantless surveillance program to “just forget” hearing that obscene phone call he had with his wife.
A sketch from another panel at the Hofstra presidential conference, “The Constitution, Executive Power and National Security Post-9/11. If you put everything Michael Hayden said during the discussion into one sentence it would be: The Obama administration is doing the same bad stuff we did. 
Hillary is digging herself out of 2016 race
An animated gif from my Washington Post blog (click image for link):
