The Republican National Committee is selling “I miss W” t-shirts. Really.
Category: human rights
Spirit of 2014
Editorial cartoonist Etta Hulme has died
Etta Hulme, the cartoonist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram has died at the age of 90. Etta was a kickass cartoonist and a hoot in person. Although I haven’t see her for several years, she used to regularly attend our AAEC conventions. I can still picture her smile whenever she walked into the room. 
The Bush chickenhawks are back
The same cast of characters who gave us the Iraq war are now giving advice about how to respond to the current situation in Iraq.
I’ll link to the animation at the Washington Post when it’s posted.
Here it is
The poodle speaks
Former British PM Tony Blair is speaking out about Iraq, insisting that the 2003 war has no connection to what’s going on there now.
Two cartoons done for the Guardian in 2006:
Iraq and Father’s Day
From the archives, a cartoon from 2003:
So much for Mission Accomplished
Islamic militants have captured several cities in Iraq, including Mosul and Tikrit, and are now threatening to take Baghdad. 
The Guardian has a live blog on developing events and BBC News a good piece on the Sunni-Shia divide throughout the Middle East
The Ugly American
America doesn’t like imperfect heroes. We want them to be a comforting stereotype- god fearing, flag waving, all-American character from a Hollywood movie script – instead of real people with real differences who represent more the ideal that the Founding Fathers envisioned.
Since Obama’s Rose Garden announcement of Sgt. Bergdahl’s release, the tone from Washington has completely changed. It’s not the prisoner swap for the 5 Taliban leaders that’s really bothering the politicians and the talking heads; it’s the different looking and different political beliefs of Bergdahl’s father that’s the true reason for the outrage.
On the father, Robert Bergdahl: “He has learned to speak Pashto, the language of the Taliban, and looks like a Muslim.”
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly
“I mean, he says he was growing his beard because his son was in captivity. Well, your son’s out now. So if you really don’t — no longer look like a member of the Taliban, you don’t have to look like a member of the Taliban. Are you out of razors?”
Fox morning show co-host Brian Kilmeade .
“…the sketchy ‘I’m-ashamed-to-be-American’ Sgt. Bergdahl”
Sarah Palin
“The Bergdahl family is creepy. Terrorist sympathizers”
-comment on Sarah Palin’s facebook page
70 years ago: D-Day
Today is the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France. A couple of months ago I attended a cartoon conference at the Memorial de Caen and was given a tour some of the landing sites. It’s a very beautiful area with sweeping views of the ocean but standing there one can’t help feeling sadness, knowing what took place on the beaches and countryside. If you haven’t yet, read The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan.
(click for larger image)Saving Sgt. Bergdahl
Washington is all up in arms about the circumstances of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s rescue and the debates about whether he was a deserter and his father’s actions are again dredging up the type of bigotry we saw in the aftermath of 911. I don’t know why some talking heads are so surprised when soldiers become disillusioned after 13 years of war and witnessing stuff like this (#5).
It’s obvious that the Obama administration’s explanations about the Bergdahl rescue so far have been confusing and politically motivated but the loudest criticism about how the 5 high-ranking Taliban leaders being exchanged for Bergdahl’s release affects America’s security just makes me shake my head. I don’t remember hearing this much concern about our security when we were waging wars based on trumped up or nonexistence intelligence and creating international criticism and condemnation. Remember the French newspaper headline “We are all Americans now”? We quickly managed to lose worldwide sympathy and support by our subsequent actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. We won’t regain that or our moral standing for generations.
25th anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre
1989 Newsweek cover
Humor’s Edge opening -2004
My exhibition at the Library of Congress opened ten years ago today.
You won’t find a more dedicated group who understand and value editorial cartoons than the people in the Prints and Photographs division at the Library of Congress. They’re incredibly knowledgeable about the art form and its role in American history and are devoted to preserving and protecting the original art. To have the Library of Congress interested in adding my work to their collection was an amazing honor and an experience I’ll forever treasure.
Jeremy Adamson, Chief of Prints and Photographs
Harry Katz and Martha Kennedy, Exhibition Co-Curators
Sara Duke, Assistant Curator
Humor’s Edge flyer