Animation: Debt Ceiling Campfire Sing-Along

I’ve returned from teaching with Nancy Stahl up in Connecticut for a week, so I'm back to the studio and have sent in to Mother Jones this week’s cartoon about the debt ceiling, featuring John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Michele Bachmann and Grover Nordquist on the guitar at Camp Wee-No-Budge:

Here's a link to watch the cartoon -- Yee - Ha!

I confess to the voices and music but Freesound is responsible for the cricket and mosquitos

Tim Pawlenty for The New Republic

For The New Republic, an article about the blandest of the bland, Tim Pawlenty, being overshadowed by fellow Minnesotan pol Michele Bachmann.

Link to article

Cover for The Progressive

The cover story for the current issue of The Progressive is headlined, "Obama and Black America", written by Kevin Alexander Gray, a black critic of the president. The article talks about Obama cozying up to Wall Street and not meeting or paying enough attention to the needs of black Americans. I did a bunch of sketches for both the cover and the interior illustration, and they chose the ones I liked best. Here's the cover dummied up and the interior final:

Here's a link to the article

State of Wonder

An illustration for a book review in The Christian Science Monitor of Ann Patchett’s new novel, “State of Wonder,” set in the Amazon jungle. I don’t read fiction anymore, but the book sounds so intriguing I might just break my nonfiction habit. 

Animation: Warning: No Warning!

In a 5-4 majority led by Justice Clarence Thomas, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court ruled that the manufacturers of generic drugs cannot be sued for failing to update warning labels on their copycat drugs to reflect newly discovered dangers and side effects (name brand drug makers are liable for failing to update warnings and can be sued).

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing for the dissenters, said, “As a result of today's decision, whether a consumer harmed by inadequate warnings can obtain relief turns solely on the happenstance of whether her pharmacist filled her prescription with a brand-name or generic drug.” Read more here in the LA Times.

Link to cartoon on Mother Jones

Written, animated and acted by me.

The (Really) Long Goodbye for the Wall St Journal

For today’s Wall St Journal, a one-day turnaround for the cover of the Friday Journal section, featuring a tough old detective. They then photoshopped my painting onto a cover of an old paperback. Being the daughter of Norm Saunders, growing up poring over all his old pulp magazine covers helped a lot with this one! Here it is in the dummy layout: