How I draw Kamala

And other doodles

Here is a political cartoon drawn just for you, my substack subscribers.

Below is a 3:55 minute video I produced demonstrating how I draw a caricature of our next President.

Forty-years and 11,000 cartoons exhausted my affection for the craft which I now feel cannot compete with the immediacy and effectness of memes or short videos. I love memes. These days I’ll look at the work of the few surviving cartoonists who are my peers and yawn. Sorry. It’s a medium from another era.

I’ve been tinkering with memes. Here are a few I’ve posted.

Some of my favorite homemade memes

In my youth I was a graphic director at a paper and that is where I fell in love with photographic images. When I moved to the next paper to serve as their political cartoonist I toyed with drawing photo realistic cartoons in a pointillist fashion that was very labor intensive. In my later years I shifted to a more enjoyable Hanna-Barbera retro mid-century style.

Of course from time to time, off the deadline spinning wheel, I can’t resist rendering a simple portrait such as this likeness of Kari Lake with a bit of the Joker mixed in.

Still I am delighted and heartened by the memes and gifs and videos made by young Harris boosters and Trump critics. A few faves:

Memes among the tens of thousands you can find online.

Harris has unleashed the creative energy of America’s youth and it brings me great joy to see it.

This week I was posting my “Kamala” signs and flags in my yard and on two separate occasions someone passing by the hacienda said, “I like your signs!”

I was surprised. I said “Thanks!”

They were both teenagers who live in the neighborhood. I was stunned. Hey, kids. Harris has awakened a giant.