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Genies Turned Me Into a Political Cartoonist

By Editor, Daryl Cagle - Apr 28, 2019 12:02 pm

Before I was a political cartoonist I was a toy inventor.


Here’s my design for the Genie “Ruby,” from my presentation boards for “Teeny Genies” that were made to look like historic old parchment.


I worked for the Muppets for many years, designing Muppet toys for all the major toy companies, and the same people I worked with were also the people who reviewed new product submissions for the toy companies.


The Muppets were a crash course in the toy industry for me.


For a few years I was knocking out about 20 new toy presentations a year. Most of my concepts were cartoon and character based and I always had a bag full of new inventions to show to toy company executives whenever they

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