Animation: Virginia Foxx

Ultra-conservative North Carolina Republican congresswoman Virginia Foxx, chair of the Higher Education Subcommittee in the House, made a little news in the past week when she said that she has “very little tolerance” for people who take out student loans. ”There’s no reason for that. We live in an opportunity society and people are forgetting that … You don’t sit on your butt and have it dumped in your lap.”


Ah, yes. This is the same high-minded Virginia Foxx who sponsored the “Protecting Academic Freedom in Higher Education Act,” [HR 2117], a bill to repeal federal regulation of for-profit colleges — colleges that prey on low-income students, have ludicrously low graduation rates, and receive more than 75% of their revenue from federal grants and loans. 


Oh. And that the for-profit schools industry is one of her biggest campaign contributors.


Her bill passed the House by a wide margin in February. It will next be voted on in the Senate, where it will likely fail due to a Democratic majority.


Art, animation and acting by me.

Some Subway Musicians

In doing the cover for yesterday's NY Observer, I went back over some of the sketches and paintings I did of subway musicians for my Overlooked New York website. I would have liked painting Natalia, the Saw Lady, as a part of that scene, but they chose the Naked Cowboy. If you want to know a little about these passionate musicians who serenade the toughest audience in the world, I've given links to their interviews on Overlooked New York:

Ebony Hillbillies

Key Appleseeds

Natalia Paruz

Professor Eduardo

Cover for The NY Observer

On the front page of today’s The New York Observer: the article is about how Occupy Wall Street seems to be fading into the regular chaotic new york scene. Featuring some of NYC’s most colorful characters, including Thoth, Radioman, a silver-painted robot guy, Naked Cowboy, a mariachi band…and yours truly filling in as a wan OWS-er…

Interview on Art Threat

Amanda McCuaig did this super fly article about me for the great website, Art Threat...check it out:

Link to interview

Animation: Shoot 'Em Up Fun!

Step right up Folks, for some Shoot 'Em Up Fun! Exercise your constitutional rights against the dangerous sickos who look like they might assault you at every turn!


Get that feeling of power only cold steel and hot lead can give you! No background checks, no permits, no waiting periods, no nothin’! Jes’ plunk yer money down, folks, and blast away! It's your sacred second amendment right!

Taylor Mali for The Christian Science Monitor

Slam poet Taylor Mali for an article headlined, "Standing Up for Teachers".

Animation: Romney Loves Ryan

Here's my newest one, wherein Romney sings of his love for Paul Ryan ("Your budget looks so very Ayn Rand-y, it's like Right Wing Easter candy")... This is a spin on Judy Garland singing "You Made Me Love You" from the film "Broadway Melody".


 In case you want to see the old movie clip of Judy Garland singing to the fan photo of Clark Gable, here's a link

Our Hen House

Two of my animations, Agribusiness on the Assault and Factory Farm Superbugs, are posted on the great animal rights website Our Hen House

Esperanza Spalding for The Wall St Journal

Link to article

I was not familiar with Esperanza Spalding's music before the WSJ asked me to do her portrait this week, so it was a treat to discover her; if you're not acquainted with her work, I recommend you change that, pronto. I sent in her portrait with these two different color interpretations; the Journal chose the cool jazz palette at bottom. I choose the hot one at top.

Animation: Santorum "Flubs"

Here’s my new cartoon, which is a riff on Santorum’s “flub” last week at a rally in Janesville, Wisconsin, where Santorum may have used the N Word on President Obama when he said, ""We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like -- the anti-war government nig... America was a source for division around the world, that what we were doing was wrong." 


(Here’s a link to the actual video of him )


Of course Santorum denies he was about to say what it sounds like he was saying, just as he did back in January when he was caught on tape saying he didn't  "want to make black people's lives better by giving them other people's money." He later said that the whole world was mishearing his statement, that he meant to say "blah" people. Riiiiiight....


Whatever the truth about these flubs, it gave me a good framework to satirize Santorum and the right wing’s frantic blowing on the dog whistle, and denying it each and every time.