Saturday, October 31, 2009 - I did this cartoon about a week and a half ago, and posted it to my website and a couple of other places at that time. When President Obama was originally awarded his "Nobel Prize for Nothing", I was as surprised and mystified as everyone else (Obama included). One can only assume that the Norwegian lefties on the committee awarded him the Prize simply for "not being George Bush", as many have said. That would certainly explain the Nobel Peace Prizes awarded during Bush's presidency to Jimmy Carter and, later, to Al Gore, Jr. (over the much more deserving, and now deceased, Irina Sendlerowa of Poland). When the Heene family "balloon boy" hoax happened, I thought it provided a perfect analogy to illustrate the foolishness of the award, which serves only to devalue the Nobel Peace Prize itself. - Jerry Breen newbreen@comcast.net www.newbreen.com/caricatures.html
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Kindly also check out my cartoon on the subject.. http://globetoons.blogspot.com/2009/10/obamas-nobel-surprise.html
Hello Jerry!
Love your work!!
I took on my 8 year old niece at drawing political cartoons. She doesn't know much about the Election going on at the moment, so I thought that would make the challenge even (since I'm a terrible drawer!)
Here's what we each came up with:
http://www.bobversus.com/2010/04/08/bob-versus-charlie-political-cartoons/
Would love to hear your thoughts! Leave a message.
And if you could check out the 'Charity' page too that would be ace! I'm running the Brighton Marathon on Sunday (April 18th) for the National Autistic Society and could do with support!
Cheers
i agree with Bobby, your work is great! want to reach out to a wider audience? to get to people who are not so net savvy, make these into postcards. http://www.psprint.com/postcards offers some interesting options.
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