A collection of animated and still editorial cartoons over at my blog at the Washington Post.
Category: society
My Harpo Halloween costume
I’m not a big fan of Halloween as a holiday but did read this interesting article at the New York Times about Halloween costume correctness on campuses today. California Institute of the Arts, the school I attended in the mid-8os was famous (or infamous) for their outrageous Halloween parties. No costume correctness there; the biggest concern there was if the costume covered anything (paint seemed to be the choice of material). This not being my style I decided on dressing up as Harpo Marx, complete with a curly wig, trench coat, and horn. I loved this character- no talking, just blowing my horn as a response.
image from marxbrothers tumbler
Nerd Prom sketches
click here for all the sketches over at the Washington Post
Garry Trudeau’s dangerous logic about Charlie Hebdo
(click on image for full column)
Finally. SCOTUS agrees to take on marriage equality
Thirty-six states and the District of Columbia have legalized same-sex marriages. The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear cases from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee over whether same-sex marriages should be legal throughout the nation or if individual states have the right to determine that marriage should only be between a man and a woman. It’s time for the question to be resolved. It’s time for equality for all Americans.
Happy New Year- 2015
My Washington Post editor, Karen Attiah, put together a great year-end review of several animations, sketches and gifs. Check it out here.
It’s Thanksgiving Day
Understanding Separation of Church & State
It never ceases to amaze me how short-sighted Americans are when talking about religious freedom. A county in Florida is revisiting a policy of allowing bibles to be distributed at schools after a group exerted its religious rights by wanting to distribute coloring books featuring cartoon characters performing satanic rituals and drawing pentagrams.
Separation of Church and State protects your religious freedoms, people.
From the archives
Veterans Day, 2014
The video that started it all
A related story from the early 80’s: I remember sitting in my CalArts design class waiting for our instructor Bob Winquist to arrive. After apologizing for being late he mentioned he had been a visitor on the set of a video shoot in LA – the very one- and marveled at what a genius that “young man” was.
Fear and Ebola
Our cable news and politicians are doing an excellent job of whipping up a disproportionate fear of an Ebola epidemic. Never mind that there are plenty of other epidemics to really be worried about:
Hong Kong demonstrations continue
The “Umbrella Revolution” enters its sixth day with the demonstrators continuing their peaceful demands for China to honor their one country, two systems promise in 1997. Hopefully the Chinese government won’t resort to previous tactics but I admit I’m not optimistic.
cartoon from archives 6/30/2004