By Daryl Cagle - May 28, 2020 11:01 pm
President Trump isn't doing well in the polls. As the virus gets worse, Trump has silenced his coronavirus task force and has been looking for distractions to move the news away from harping on his virus failures as the death count passed 100,000. Trump's latest distraction has been Twitter, which finally bowed to criticism and put an innocuous link for more information, next to a tweet where Trump lied about voter fraud. This is raw meat from Trump's base that doesn't like those rich, liberal, San Francisco social media companies. Trump's Executive Order against Twitter is inconsequential, but his deception lured the media and lots of the cartoonists into taking Trump's bait, drawing non-coronavirus cartoons about Trump vs Twitter as the death toll hit a milestone.... Finish reading in browser »
By Daryl Cagle - May 28, 2020 11:23 am
I was saddened to learn that my friend, and long time CagleCartoonist, Sandy Huffaker, has passed away. Sandy was my hero in the 1970's when I was in high school, and he was a big influence on me. The 1970's were the glory days for cartoon illustrators and I rushed off to Manhattan in 1977, hoping to have a career drawing cartoons for the big magazines like my idol, Sandy. I loved reading Time magazine as a teenager because Sandy was in almost every issue, with delightful, colorful illustrations; in fact, Sandy was in all the major magazines in the 1970's. Sandy's work was everywhere!... Finish reading in browser »
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President Trump isn't doing well in the polls. As the virus gets worse, Trump has silenced his coronavirus task force and has been looking for distractions to move the news away from harping on his virus failures as the death count passed 100,000. Trump's latest distraction has been Twitter, which finally bowed to criticism and put an innocuous link for more information, next to a tweet where Trump lied about voter fraud. This is raw meat from Trump's base that doesn't like those rich, liberal, San Francisco social media companies. Trump's Executive Order against Twitter is inconsequential, but his deception lured the media and lots of the cartoonists into taking Trump's bait, drawing non-coronavirus cartoons about Trump vs Twitter as the death toll hit a milestone.... 
I was saddened to learn that my friend, and long time CagleCartoonist, Sandy Huffaker, has passed away. Sandy was my hero in the 1970's when I was in high school, and he was a big influence on me. The 1970's were the glory days for cartoon illustrators and I rushed off to Manhattan in 1977, hoping to have a career drawing cartoons for the big magazines like my idol, Sandy. I loved reading Time magazine as a teenager because Sandy was in almost every issue, with delightful, colorful illustrations; in fact, Sandy was in all the major magazines in the 1970's. Sandy's work was everywhere!... 
