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Puff, puff, puff – puff until ya die …
Puff, puff, puff – puff until ya die … That’s what I used to do many decades ago – a proud sophisticated 3-packs-of-unfiltered-camels-a-day jerk – until I decided I really didn’t like all that blackish brown shit I loogied out … Continue reading
Posted in ART
Tagged 'editorial cartoon', ’don’t smoke’, ’sophisticated smoker’, cartoon, cigarettes, skull
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Editorial Cartoon – Universal self-determination
Remember how a former president was going to stay out of the internal affairs of other countries – until something required comment? Like that kid in Singapore who got caught vandalizing cars and then was not let off with a … Continue reading
Editorial Cartoon – Apartheid
Some of these editorial cartoons are done with blank ink on paper, but equally if not more common today is the use of black grease pencil – akin to a black crayola – on a white surface; sometimes this surface … Continue reading
Posted in ART
Tagged 'editorial cartoon', 'South Africa', apartheid, ’art technique’, Vorster
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Editorial Cartoon – Health Financing
Now that election season 2012 is in full swing and one of the major issues lying in ambush for the candidates is what to do about Obama-care and, quite in general, the ironically complicating consequence of modern medicine’s spectacular successes … Continue reading
Posted in ART
Tagged 'editorial cartoon', ’financial constraints’, ’health care’, ’medical costs’, ’medicine in America’
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Editorial Cartoon – Sumo Economics
Remember back twenty or so years ago how the Japanese were going to overtake the world and in particular the United States? This editorial cartoon was one I just couldn’t help but do! Of course, the Nikkei – after hitting an … Continue reading
Posted in ART
Tagged 'editorial cartoon', ’Japanese stock market’, ’world economy’, ’world trade’, economics
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Editorial Cartoon – Social Insecurity?
Today there is increasingly alarmed public discussion about how the funding of social security will squeeze the country dry, and my strangling octopus below struck me as a nifty visual metaphor for all the hysteria – and reality. Unfortunately, as … Continue reading
Posted in ART, OBITER PICTA
Tagged 'editorial cartoon', art, ’social insecurity’, ’social security’, juvenal, octopus
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Editorial Cartoon – Terrorism
I drew this one over thirty years ago when I was starting to get seriously interested in ‘doing’ art instead of just ‘looking’ at it. But, sadly, this one is even more timely today than then. [If you click on … Continue reading
