I made the last batch of roughs exclusive for paid subscribers but I feel guilty that my post from last night was also for paid subscribers, so I’m making this free for everyone. I love you all.
This was drawn for the Fredericksburg Advance on July 25. My editor approved it but said it didn’t have my usual “snap.” I thought I could do better too. I told him we would go with it if I didn’t think of something better the next day. I thought of something better the next day.
This was drawn for the Advance on the 26, the day after the previous one. I like this and so does my editor. I like weird plus, people like cats. Here’s the final version.
This was drawn on July 31 and while I liked it, I didn’t think it really worked. Maybe it does.
This was also drawn on July 31. I didn’t even finish it. The idea was to have Maduro in a diving competition with a gun pointed at his competitors. I wasn’t feeling it. I should still do a cartoon on Maduro.
This was also drawn on July 31, last Wednesday, the day when Trump had a disaster before Black journalists. The cartoon to go with that day was either this one or the one riffing on The Jeffersons. I asked two people which one to choose and they both said they liked each cartoon, but this was the one for the moment, so I went with it.
I drew this on the same day, July 31, trying to find the right cartoon.
Also drawn on July 31. Sometimes, I can be a harder editor on myself than my CNN editor ever was. Now that I look at this again, I think it’s pretty good.
This is my favorite of the cartoons on this issue, and it was also drawn on July 31. I usually don’t like to draw on the same subject two days in a row, but I felt it was necessary on this occasion. Plus, I liked it. Who doesn’t love The Jeffersons?
This was drawn on August 2 and self-rejected. I thought it might be too easy. I figured readers would see the punchline coming. But I decided to go ahead and smooth it out with some color after it came true at Trump’s rally in Atlanta. Yes, he congratulated Putin. Why doesn’t this kind of shit destroy his campaign? Seriously, America.
I was going to go with this one but one of my trusted friends didn’t get it at all and thought it had something to do with San Antonio and read it too literally, like, “How did Trump get there?” So I let it go. I wasn’t sure if it worked anyway. Would people get that Trump was trying to trip the hostages Biden had freed? This is the cartoon I went with.
That’s it for this batch, kids. Which of these are your favorites?
Watch me draw all of them:
This blog was hard to write because of this shit going on at 9:30 a.m:
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Holy crap! Is there anything you can do about that noise coming from upstairs? That's intolerable!
I liked the Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner cartoon. I also liked the gal on the tracks that you drew for your local paper, and I liked the one you went with too (cats are very popular, especially these days 😉).
I hope the work is done in that other apartment. The noise! They should have let you know ahead of time.