"Now I'm confused. Is that a black hole, or the maws of AIG?" Cartoon ©D. Barstow 2009 NOTE: My political cartoons for Slate have all been moved to The Opposite of Wrong, where I skewer all the cartoons! Who doesn't love a cartoon bashing AIG, the worst insurance company of all time? And there's a dog in ...

"I'm thinking about putting my face on our new product line, like Paul Newman does...would that turn you on?" ©D.Barstow 2009 I heart Paul Newman! Not so much for his movies, although he was great - but for entering my own life by doing movies on location, where I found him in person. I was dating the ...

The subject this week for Illustration Friday is "intricate," and I found these wolves to be just so very detailed and particular. As it happens, this was also today's cartoon I did for Slate, so kill 2 with one stone, and all that good stuff! The Cartoon This took a long time to draw! I had to study ...

"Melissa, rejected from the Bachelor, joins cast of Dancing with the Stars...and we get our first sonic boom from reality tv." Why I Did It It's a brand new world. Now I have to read the newspaper - I mean the bits besides interesting murders, the funnies, and local stuff that makes me mad. Because my syndicate, ...