I followed up in February 2010 with a trio of collaborations based on ideas from Lonnie Mussell. Like Fred Rodriguez, Lonnie is a Tea Partier from Georgia, and like Fred, Lonnie is in the construction business. (With the never-ending depressed state of the housing and construction sector, I guess it's no wonder that the Tea Party ranks would swell with people from the building trades.)
I've been doing political cartoons since the 60's. Since that time, my work has appeared sporadically in a few major papers but never on any regular basis. My best work has gone unpublished and unseen over the years. UNTIL NOW! With the advent of the Internet, I can now publish my own work on my own terms. And now that my cartoons are accessible to the public, people have been discovering them. And republishing them. And "googling" them. My Barack Obama cartoons are the most popular Obama cartoons on the worldwide web. Even my classic Nixon "Checkers" cartoon, which I couldn't get published back in the 70's, is now one of the most popular Nixon cartoons on the web. The Internet is a level playing field, and the cream rises to the top. I'll be publishing my latest cartoons on this blog, interspersed with some of my classic (unseen) older work. Now that there are no stupid editors to get in between me and the reading public, nothing's gonna stop me now!
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