The Roadside Artist

Funding the war in Iraq, or not. Conflict at home, conflict abroad. Cartoon-caricature illustrating the dangers in playing a game of chicken with funding of the war and the troops. You can draw your own conclusions…

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi takes aim at President Bush with the threat to defund the war in Iraq, but sometimes the troops get in the way.

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Don Imus can be a shrutebag sometimes and Al Sharpton is a shameless opportunist. In some ways, they belong together. I was going to call this CARICATURE sketch, “A High-Tech Lynching” borrowing a phrase from Clarence Thomas…

But I don’t know if that really fits. Al certainly used his media influence to take a stupid comment and blow it up into a national emergency. Lord knows, there’s nothing ELSE important going on in the world.

So now Imus is fired from his job, and there will be no more racism in America.

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President Bush in a quick portrait-caricature sketch. Yes, once again I’m scraping the rust off of my charcoal sketch skills, this time with a quick impression of President George W. Bush, a la fair/event/party-style fast and furious art work.

This work is done in the quick and dirty style of a art fair / party sketch or caricature artist. With my ‘no erase/no return’ policy, this art work ends up somewhere on the continuum between caricatures and portraiture.

It really is NOT a political commentary.

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