Dead Bird

July 24, 2023July 28, 2023Leave a comment

I’m probably not the first one that’s made this connection, but I thought I’d whip this up real fast. Using both twitter’s old and new logos.

Or is it better flipped?

2020

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2020

Trump Signing Things

October 5, 2017October 6, 20171 Comment

Here’s another Trump caricature designed for shutterstock. It’s a scene that he repeats regularly, whenever he signs something. So, I figure it should be useful for future political articles. I was careful not to make it offensive. That way it got past the shutterstock censors easily.

Trump Signing Things
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Shutterstock and Trump Caricatures

September 27, 2017January 19, 20181 Comment

So, I finally got some information I needed yesterday about shutterstock’s rules for stock image submissions.

I have several celebrity caricature and political cartoons that I want to sell for stock images, but they can only be sold for editorial use because they’re images of real people rather than fictional characters and I don’t have a model release. Istock won’t allow illustrations to be sold as editorial stock, but shutterstock allows this, which is just what I needed.

I had a few cartoons and caricatures of Donald Trump, one of which was clearly offensive and kept getting rejected when I submitted it. I suspected it was being rejected due to being offensive, but they never said that. They kept saying they didn’t like my description or the keywords. I gave up on it for awhile, but I tried again a few days ago and I finally got a response that it was rejected due to being an offensive subject.

Which is fair.

It’s also what I needed to know.

My new Trump caricature (below) is very neutral. It’s not quite complementary, but it isn’t offensive at all. I figure this one should easily pass shutterstock’s censors and, based on my sales of my other Trump images, it should sell reasonably well also.

Trump Golfing

[Edit: Trump Golfing is now available on shutterstock.]

You’re Fired!

February 2, 2017November 13, 2024Leave a comment

Here’s another Donald Trump caricature. I think the last one turned out better, but this one’s okay. I don’t think I got his face quite Trump-y enough, but he’s still recognizable so I’m calling it done.

This one’s inspired, of course, both by his iconic catch-phrase and by his recent firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.

You're Fired

This image is available at shutterstock here.

Donkey ROTFL

August 9, 2016April 28, 20211 Comment

Cartoon of a braying jackass. Literally rolling on the floor laughing.

There are plenty of perfectly nice donkeys in
the world, but this guy is a braying jackass.

Dismayed Elephant

August 7, 2016April 28, 20216 Comments

Various bits of recent politics inspired me to draw this elephant yesterday.
Maybe I shouldn’t sketch while listening to political news.

A worried elephant.

I like him, though. Sort of feel sorry for him. Poor guy.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

April 5, 2016January 13, 2024Leave a comment

Here’s a caricature portrait of Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. The background came from a NASA photo (public domain) of a spiral galaxy. I sort of gave him a cosmic halo because it amused me.