"Cartooning is about deconstruction; you gotta tear somehting down to make a joke." ~Berke Breathed
"I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning." ~Gary Larson
I wanted to be a cartoonist since I was in fifth grade. My best friend and I were constandly making up our own super heroes. In junior high I studied everything I could find about newspaper comic strips and magazine panel cartoons. In high school my dream was to become a political cartoonist for a major newspaper. Alas, this was about as unlikely as bececoming a huge rock star, movie star or pro athlete.
For a brief while, my cartoons were published in a regional weekly newspaper. I still occasionaly cartoon and I teach students that cartooning is a terrific way of thinking on paper, useful for journaling, note taking and communicating. It's more developed than doodling but much more streamline and quick than full-blown (realistic) drawing.
Interested in seeing more of my cartoons? I used to keep a blog which essentially became a repository for cartoons and collages from 1984-2013:
'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' pen and ink, manipilated in Adobe Photoshop 2008 NFS
I'm not sure how wise it is to share editorial cartoons as a teacher; parents, administrators and boardmembers (even students) may have diametric political opinions. I guess I hope I've chosen some relatively objective ones to share here. If I haven't, I guess I'm hoping that since there are none of presidents Trump or Obama- these are all old enough that the statute of limitations for offending people has run out on all of them.
I started cartooning in my high school newspaper and continued on in college. I had the priviledge of being published in a local weekly from about 2005-2008. Try as I may to submit samples to national syndicates, alas the dream was not to be. Just as well, I can't imagine anything as rearding as teaching. Besides, teaching is positive, connecting and constructive. Political cartooning is negative, divissive and destructive- even when you're absolutely right and your victoms deserve what's coming to them.