"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 ...

"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 ...

"Thanks to Obama, we're not ENDANGERED in Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, UT, OR, WA, etc. We're target practice." 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, ...

"Melissa, rejected from the Bachelor, joins cast of Dancing with the Stars...and we get our first sonic boom from reality tv." (A different version of this is here.) 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 ...