I am all kinds of thrilled that I’ve been invited to submit cartoons about the election to a major publication!!

I don’t think I’ve ever done any political cartoons until recently. (My father used to suggest that if I did them, I would be a “real” cartoonist,  but fortunately – I think it wasn’t until he held my first book in his hands – that mantra has stopped, or at least slowed down. Well, here I am, Dad!)

I don’t know any cartoonists who mix the genres, actually; you’re either funny or serious, and I always choose funny! (Plus, what about those arrows and signs and symbols and nametags and scrawling ink splotches all over everything in editorial drawings? Kind of messy.)

Sarah Palin as a child. “They’re not toys, they’re trophies.”

Original cartoon next.   Read more »