Labor Day is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than to be unemployed and looking for a job?
Cheer yourself up, and get your mind off things for a couple of minutes by checking out out new Labor Day cartoon slideshow
Jeff Parker / Florida Today (click to view slideshow)
Much to the chagrin of nearly every Republican in Washington, Dick Cheney is back in the media spotlight, hawking his new book which he promises will have “have heads exploding in D.C.”
Cartoonists have always loved Dick Cheney. From his Dr. Evil-like secret bunker to his propensity for shooting people in the face, he’s the exact foil political cartoonists love to make fun of.
Brian Fairrington re-introduces us to Darth Cheney…
Green Bay Press-Gazette cartoonist Joe Heller explores what really should be considered torture…
Jeff Parker of Florida Today has fun with some logistial problems Cheney’s book might face…
While the Washington Examiner’s Nate Beeler thinks the book might be the jump start poor Dick’s heart needs…
Obama was supposed to fix health care, but it seems like at every turn, it just gives us more headaches. Yesterday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that even as "ObamaCare" is beginning to save consumers money, it could also end up giving us fewer plans to choose from.
What do cartoonists think of all this confusion? Click to view our Healthcare Headache cartoon slideshow
Bob Englehart / Hartford Courant (click to view slideshow)
Hurricane Irene might have gotten our minds off our sluggish economy for a couple of days, but we still face the prospects of a terrible economy in our immediate future. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the economy is expected to grow by less than 3 percent through 2012, and unemployment will remain above 8 percent until 2014.
You probably need something to cheer you up after numbers like that. Check out our Slow Economic Growth cartoon slideshow
Bill Day / PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view slideshow)
For those that didn't see my earlier blog post, famed Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat was beaten by pro-government thugs late last week. They broke his hands for drawing cartoons critical of the violent crackdown of protesters by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Cartoonists from around the world have united to stand up to this type of violence. Check them out here in our new Ali Ferzat Cartoon Slideshow.
Daryl Cagle / msnbc.com, PoliticalCartoons.com
Famed Arab cartoonist Ali Ferzat is recovering in the hospital after he was beaten by pro-Assad thugs in Damascus late last week, as part of a brutal crackdown of the Syrian Uprising that has killed over 2,200 people since anti-government protests began five months ago.
A recent Ferzat cartoon, drawn lest week prior to being assaulted, shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attempting to hitch a ride with Libya's Muammar Gaddafi.
According to reports, Ferzat was forced out of his car and beaten in Damascus by four masked men. The regime’s thugs focused their attention on Ferzat’s hands, beating them furiously and breaking two fingers on his left hand – a clear message that he should stop drawing. Farzat’s assailants also broke his right arm and bruised his left eye before dumping him on the side of the road. The American Embassy in Damascus called it “a government-sponsored, targeted, brutal attack.”
“They are afraid of giving symbols to the Syrian uprising,” said Murhaf Jouejati, the Professor of Middle East Studies at George Washington University. “This is reflective of their fear of losing power, which is why they want to take out anybody who can carry large audiences.”
Ferzat’s cartoons have been deeply critical of the harsh suppression of the five-month uprising in Syria. Just last week, he published a cartoon on his website showing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hitch-hiking a ride out of town with a fleeing Muammar Gaddafi. Many of his cartoons directly criticize President al-Assad, even though caricatures of the president are forbidden in Syria.
While making empty promises about having a dialogue with the Syrian people, the Assad regime continues to carry out brutal attacks against protesters. According to Sebastian Usher, the BBC’s Arab affair’s analyst, Ferzat’s beating is a sign that the Syrian authorities “tolerance for dissent is touching zero.” Just a month ago, Ibrahim al-Qashoush, the composer of a popular anti-regime song, was found dead with his vocal chords removed.
Here’s a video from Al-Jazeera English where you can see pictures of Ferzat, as well as some of his cartoons:
Cartoonists from across the world are coming to the aid of Ferzat, drawing their own cartoons in response to the brutal crackdown. I’ll post them here as we receive them.
Daryl Cagle / msnbc.com, PoliticalCartoons.com
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Gilmar / Gilmar Online, Brazil
Sherif Arafa / Alittihad Newspaper
Nate Beeler / Washington Examiner, PoliticalCartoons.com
New cartoons keep coming in about everyone's favorite hurricane. For more, don't miss our Hurricane Irene cartoon slideshow! Share it with a friend - at this point, they could probably use the laugh.
Daryl Cagle / msnbc.com, PoliticalCartoons.com
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Bob Englehart / Hartford Courant, PoliticalCartoons.com
As Hurricane Irene bears down on the East Coast, I thought residents from North Carolina to Connecticut might need a laugh. So here are some of the funny cartoons that have come in. For more, check out our updated Hurricane Irene cartoon slideshow.
Nate Beeler / Washington Examiner, PoliticalCartoons.com
Rob Tornoe / Delaware Punchline, PoliticalCartoons.com
Manny Francisco / PoliticalCartoons.com
John Cole / Scranton Times-Tribune, PoliticalCartoons.com
First an earthquake, now this? As Hurricane Irene approaches the East Coast, President Barack Obama warned coastal residents to prepare for the worst, saying all indications point to Irene being a "historic" storm.
So hunker down and check out our Hurricane Irene cartoon slideshow.
Dave Granlund / PoliticalCartoons.com
At a time when the news is generally slow, big events seemed to fly in faster than the winds of Hurricane Irene. Everything from the resignation of Apple guru Steve Jobs, to a rare earthquake striking the East Coast. Oh, and there's the whole Libya thing too.
To catch up, check out our Week in Political Cartoons slideshow.
Cam Cardow / Ottawa Citizen, PoliticalCartoons.com
Hold on to your iPads -- Apple has announced that its CEO and co-founder, Steve Jobs, is resigning due to health reasons. What this means for the future of the world's most valuable company is unclear.
Check out what cartoonists think of this huge announcement, as well as their jabs at Jobs over the years, with our new Steve Jobs Resigns cartoon slideshow.
Christo Komarnitski / PoliticalCartoons.com
Yesterday, a 5.8 earthquake struck Virgina, and shook up the entire East Coast from Georgia to New England. Striking just before 2 p.m., many cartoonists were undoubtedly putting the finishing touches on Wednesday’s cartoon before they had to quickly shift gears to pump out a new cartoon about the rare earthquake for their newspaper.
Nate Beeler, of the Washington Examiner, came up with this inventive and funny cartoon…
Mobile Press-Register cartoonist J.D Crowe thinks a little bit of a shake-up is a good thing…
Rob Tornoe used the news of the injury of one of the Phillies’ star pitchers as the peg for his Philadelphia Inquirer toon…
While John Cole of the Scranton Times-Tribune and Adam Zyglis of the Buffalo News, drawing hundreds of miles apart, proved that two great minds can think alike… and at the same time too…
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