A Little Off the Top, Washington Style by Jerry Breen
At the same time that Washington was obsessing over the partisan political squabble over the U.S. government's debt ceiling, even more people seemed to be obsessed with movie idol Robert (Twilight vampire) Pattinson's lopsided haircut. (His character has an interrupted haircut, and he remains that way for the rest of the story.) I thought it was a convenient metaphor for the budget clash, with Republican House leader John Boehner compulsively cutting and President Obama, as usual doing nothing. Jerry Breen www.newbreen.com
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 My best work has gone unpublished and unseen over the years.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!
1 comment:
Pretty funny. I like how Obama has that big smile in your picture. Kenneth Gibbons LLC
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