Roughs, Volume 245

Ding-dong! Roughs are here

You’re going to get two blogs of roughs this week. I’ll explain why when the second blog pops up. I’ve been sitting on a few of these since last month. I don’t draw as many roughs as I did when I worked for CNN, and this is a small batch.

This was drawn on September 18. I planned to turn it into a finished cartoon but time got away from.

This was drawn on September 28. I drew two versions of this one, with the other being trashed. It was kind of a stretch to combine JD’s eggtrastophe (OK, that was a stretch too) and Trump’s fear of debating Harris. I wasn’t feeling this cartoon.

This was drawn on September 29 after Trump met with Volodymyr Zelensky. My Zelensky looks kinda like my JD. I kinda like this idea. Why’d I let it go?

This was drawn on October 1. It was a suitable cartoon for after JD’s debate performance but I wanted something weirder…and then I found it.

This was drawn on October 18. I liked it but threw it away for this one.

This was drawn on October 16 and the drawing is done. All it needs is to be colored. But I pushed it aside for something weirder which I didn’t think of until I finished drawing this one.

I will throw away a good economical cartoon for something weird. What I mean is that I’ll toss a cartoon that’ll get reprints, more editors will like, that’s not very irreverent but is clear to all readers…for something bizarre, strange, scary to editors, and risks being misunderstood by many. I probably do this because I’m weird. Oddly enough, the weird version did get a lot of reprints from my clients. They’re probably weird too.

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