Thanks to Jon Crowl for conceptualizing it, Katie Briggs for putting it on the page, and Bea Huff for taking some of the credit but none of the money.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Doing things I'm actually proud of
I busted a week-long nut in the DN Sports section a few weeks before the end of the year. Here's the raddest of the rad. I've never been more excited about a piece of art in ever. I mean that.
Thanks to Jon Crowl for conceptualizing it, Katie Briggs for putting it on the page, and Bea Huff for taking some of the credit but none of the money.
Thanks to Jon Crowl for conceptualizing it, Katie Briggs for putting it on the page, and Bea Huff for taking some of the credit but none of the money.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Andrew Lacy --- Maverick
I felt like this one deserved its own post. Thanks to Noah Ballard and Andrew Lamberson.
March
Spring is in the air at Bob's Cartoon Blog!
March saw the return of a fan-favorite character, the Recession Fish. Check out this cartoon pair - the first ran on Friday, the second on the following Monday, after I'd had a weekend to think about how awesome a Recession Fish encore would be.
Next up is another installment in that famous "CEOs are bad" series, about the GM/Chrysler guy that Obama forced out.
This one is in response to a story that ran in the Lincoln Journal-Star about a man who but his girlfriend's cat in a bong to chill it out. It speaks for itself.
After Spring Break, with a literal vacuum of ideas inside my head, I realized that was exactly what my cartoon needed to be about - my own desperation to be finished with the year.
This cartoon actually ran on March 1, and is in regards to my favorite new political term of the year.
Dear Barack Obama,
Nice job appearing on Jay Leno and saying the stupidest thing you've ever said publicly. Way to go.
Signed,
Professor X
I managed with this cartoon to lay a simple smackdown on National Fucktard Bill O'Reilly while at the same time exerting minimal effort. Yeah, those are all the same barrel. Have you met my friend Ctrl+v?
And this last cartoon is probably the one I'm most proud of out of the entire semester. You might think my point is that the war in Afghanistan is extremely comparable to Vietnam, but that's not really it. What it comes down to in this cartoon is just a reminder that war under any circumstances is never by any means a good thing. I think we forget that sometimes.
March saw the return of a fan-favorite character, the Recession Fish. Check out this cartoon pair - the first ran on Friday, the second on the following Monday, after I'd had a weekend to think about how awesome a Recession Fish encore would be.
Next up is another installment in that famous "CEOs are bad" series, about the GM/Chrysler guy that Obama forced out.
This one is in response to a story that ran in the Lincoln Journal-Star about a man who but his girlfriend's cat in a bong to chill it out. It speaks for itself.
After Spring Break, with a literal vacuum of ideas inside my head, I realized that was exactly what my cartoon needed to be about - my own desperation to be finished with the year.
This cartoon actually ran on March 1, and is in regards to my favorite new political term of the year.
Dear Barack Obama,
Nice job appearing on Jay Leno and saying the stupidest thing you've ever said publicly. Way to go.
Signed,
Professor X
I managed with this cartoon to lay a simple smackdown on National Fucktard Bill O'Reilly while at the same time exerting minimal effort. Yeah, those are all the same barrel. Have you met my friend Ctrl+v?
And this last cartoon is probably the one I'm most proud of out of the entire semester. You might think my point is that the war in Afghanistan is extremely comparable to Vietnam, but that's not really it. What it comes down to in this cartoon is just a reminder that war under any circumstances is never by any means a good thing. I think we forget that sometimes.
February
February cartoons comin' atcha!
This first cartoon is in regards to a bill proposed in the Nebraska legislature to push the last call hour back to 2:00 a.m.
And this second one is in regards to Rush Limbaugh being, well, a douche. I paraphrased his speech bubble, but it wasn't much of a stretch.
And this one is in regards to Obama's plans for Afghanistan. You'll see me revise my opinion on this issue a few months down the line.
Okay, this one is in regards to that New York Post cartoon where they have two cops that shot a chimp and one's saying something along the lines of "Now we need to find someone new to write the stimulus bill." Crappy cartoon, admittedly, but I think the reaction to it was maybe a bit over the top. Thus, a cartoon is born.
And then finally, we have my two elephant cartoons from the month of February. Guess which one I put more work into.
Coming soon: March!!
This first cartoon is in regards to a bill proposed in the Nebraska legislature to push the last call hour back to 2:00 a.m.
And this second one is in regards to Rush Limbaugh being, well, a douche. I paraphrased his speech bubble, but it wasn't much of a stretch.
And this one is in regards to Obama's plans for Afghanistan. You'll see me revise my opinion on this issue a few months down the line.
Okay, this one is in regards to that New York Post cartoon where they have two cops that shot a chimp and one's saying something along the lines of "Now we need to find someone new to write the stimulus bill." Crappy cartoon, admittedly, but I think the reaction to it was maybe a bit over the top. Thus, a cartoon is born.
And then finally, we have my two elephant cartoons from the month of February. Guess which one I put more work into.
Coming soon: March!!
January
I'll be updating my backlog of cartoons by the month. I stopped midway through January, so that's where we'll start.
This first one ran two days after Obama was elected and represented my mindset on that historic day. Notice the Anderson Cooper pit stains.
And this next one is a generic "CEOs are bad" toon, which you can expect to see more of.
Stay tuned, true believers!
This first one ran two days after Obama was elected and represented my mindset on that historic day. Notice the Anderson Cooper pit stains.
And this next one is a generic "CEOs are bad" toon, which you can expect to see more of.
Stay tuned, true believers!
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Illustrations
First off, I'm posting the non-political illustrations I'm most proud of from this semester. Here they are:
From the top, they are:
1) An illustration for a story about football walk-ons.
2) The unpainted version of an illustration about the band The Show is the Rainbow (the bandleader has a history of taking off his shirt).
3) Full-page art commemorating the the 50th Birthday of Barbie.
4) An illustration of a story about the fallacies of using steroids. The only reason I included this fairly dull art is I was proud of how the digital shading turned out. I did it using only the Burn and Dodge tools in Photoshop.
From the top, they are:
1) An illustration for a story about football walk-ons.
2) The unpainted version of an illustration about the band The Show is the Rainbow (the bandleader has a history of taking off his shirt).
3) Full-page art commemorating the the 50th Birthday of Barbie.
4) An illustration of a story about the fallacies of using steroids. The only reason I included this fairly dull art is I was proud of how the digital shading turned out. I did it using only the Burn and Dodge tools in Photoshop.
My Response
Bob Al-Greene's Cartoon Blog has not historically negotiated with terrorists or bowed to their demands, but the recent hostile hacking of this site has roused me from a semster-long slumber. So I'm back. With a vengeance. Get ready for some cartoons.
Monday, April 6, 2009
i really need to update this so my friends have something new to see
your site has been hacked, and the hackers would respectfully request you update soon....
love,
Hacker D. McHackerson
love,
Hacker D. McHackerson
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
The First Cartoons of 2009...
...are a'ight. Y'know, I've probably mentioned this before, but I'm really going to miss drawing George W. once he leaves office. He's just so easy to caricature. Barack Obama, not so much.
I got a disagreeable comment on this cartoon on the DN website, but it was not ideologically based. Rather, the commenter claimed instead of not doing enough to fix the economic crisis (the point behind my cartoon), Bush was doing far too much in his last days in office, causing "11th hour mischief." Check out this link from CREW to learn more about why this is probably the worst administration ever:
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/35829
Next up, a cartoon representing my ongoing frustration with the presence of Sarah Palin in the media. Palin is pretty easy to jaw, I mean draw, but I would rather go about my life not knowing she ever existed.
And finally, here's a piece I've been meaning to upload but couldn't: the front page of the last issue of the semester, which centered around paper dolls of the "Men of the Semester." Feel free to print off the image and put Barack Obama in a Joker costume, or Bo Pelini in a Monkey Suit. I think the Harvey Perlman doll works better in skivvies. As an added bonus, notice that the Space Ranger doll in fact has no skin showing, and therefore is unidentifiable no matter who is wearing the outfit. So really, the Men of the Semester are Obama, Pelini, Perlman, and a Space Ranger.
I got a disagreeable comment on this cartoon on the DN website, but it was not ideologically based. Rather, the commenter claimed instead of not doing enough to fix the economic crisis (the point behind my cartoon), Bush was doing far too much in his last days in office, causing "11th hour mischief." Check out this link from CREW to learn more about why this is probably the worst administration ever:
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/35829
Next up, a cartoon representing my ongoing frustration with the presence of Sarah Palin in the media. Palin is pretty easy to jaw, I mean draw, but I would rather go about my life not knowing she ever existed.
And finally, here's a piece I've been meaning to upload but couldn't: the front page of the last issue of the semester, which centered around paper dolls of the "Men of the Semester." Feel free to print off the image and put Barack Obama in a Joker costume, or Bo Pelini in a Monkey Suit. I think the Harvey Perlman doll works better in skivvies. As an added bonus, notice that the Space Ranger doll in fact has no skin showing, and therefore is unidentifiable no matter who is wearing the outfit. So really, the Men of the Semester are Obama, Pelini, Perlman, and a Space Ranger.
Monday, December 15, 2008
The Last Cartoon of 2008...
...happens to be one of my absolute favorite from 2008 as well. The basis for this one comes from here:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/14/bush.iraq/index.html
In one of the most symbolic goodbyes ever, Bush made a surprise last visit to Iraq and an Iraqi journalist at a press conference threw two shoes at him. Our president dodged them Matrix-style, but the point is made. Because time is running out on the Bush years, I decided I couldn't pass this one up.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/14/bush.iraq/index.html
In one of the most symbolic goodbyes ever, Bush made a surprise last visit to Iraq and an Iraqi journalist at a press conference threw two shoes at him. Our president dodged them Matrix-style, but the point is made. Because time is running out on the Bush years, I decided I couldn't pass this one up.
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