Cartoon: Psycho Romney

On The Final Edition : Romney consults with his beloved Reagan. With a tip of the hat to Hitchcock.

Convention Cartoon Day 3: Ryan Speaks

Today's convention cartoon: Ryan speaks. On Cartoon Movement.

Convention Cartoon Day 2

Today's convention coverage cartoon for The Final Edition, the Romneys get really wound up for the convention

Convention Cartoon Day 1: Play Time

Day 2 of my full convention cartoon coverage for The Final Edition: Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan try to work out what’s good for women and what women are good for.

Convention Coverage: The Romsters

I'm doing daily cartoon coverage of The Republican National Convention for The Final Edition, and here's Day 1: Meet The Romsters. 

Animation: Scout's Honor, Paul Ryan Style

Paul Ryan, the Right Wing's favorite Boy Scout, recites his oath: "On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to Big Business and protect and defend the Chamber of Commerce; Just look at all the merit badges my corporate sponsors bought for me!"
I learned a lot about his sickening voting record on the excellent On the Issues website.

I've done quite a few Paul Ryan animations in the past year or so; Here's the first one, posted on Mother Jones back in April 2011. My, how he's grown!

This cartoon is a spin on the 1985 Rambo movie trailer 

Animation: Romney Picks Ryan

Mitt Romney sings of Paul Ryan, a spin on "Maria" from West Side Story. As always, I wrote and animated and also...sang it. I use Garageband to distort my voice, and I wish I could find a way to make the resulting distortion cracks in my voice less, to quote the romney, "severe"...

Here are the lyrics, in case you wonder what the hell he's singing about:

The sound of a guy who can win this game...

Paul Ryan.

All the beautiful sounds in the world in a single name...

Paul Ryan!

The most beautiful sound to the rabid base: 

Paul Ryan

My new running mate who might win the race . . . 

Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan . . . 

Paul Ryan! 

I've chosen a Veep named Paul Ryan, 

His budget's so austere

The Tea Party will cheer

For me. 

Paul Ryan! 

I've chosen a Veep named Paul Ryan, 

He'll wow my shaky base 

And help me to erase 

My past! 

Paul Ryan! 

Say it loud and there's millionaires swooning

Say it soft and there's billionaires crooning. 

Paul Ryan, 

I'll never stop saying Paul Ryan! 

The most beautiful sound to the GOP base...

Paul Ryan.

Mars Attacks on The Daily Heller

Steven Heller (author of many books about illustration who I painted and interviewed here) wrote up a nice piece on The Daily Heller about the soon-to-be-released book from Abrams Books celebrating the 50th anniversary of Mars Attacks, the gruesome bubblegum cards that my father, Norm Saunders, painted in the early '60s. I wrote the afterword for the book and am also doing the book trailer for Abrams ... keep tuned!

One thing, though: the illustrations that Steven Heller used for his piece are not by my father, they are recent additions to Mars Attacks. Here are a couple painted by Dad...

New Britain Museum Show

A painting of mine is in a show at the New Britain Museum, called Pixellated: The Art of Digital Illustration.

All the artists in the show were asked to provide the museum with an “artist statement”. Now, artist statements are a bunch of malarkey, to my way of thinking, so I said fuck it and sent them this, fully expecting to be told that I was uninvited:

I don't believe in artist statements. 

I mean I literally don't believe in them: I don't believe they exist for any reason. I believe they are an invention of the art establishment, the rich and mighty people who sit on museum boards and control the grant-giving foundations, forcing us to contort ourselves into mealy-mouthed buffoons, just so our pictures will be stuck on the creamy walls of institutions around the globe. 

I protest this fiction. 

My statement is the statement of a human being ... an artistic one,  but a human being first and foremost. And as a member of the human family, I demand that the universal human right be recognized by all museums everywhere: the right of artists to let their work speak for itself and cease this senseless demand that artists submit to the indignity of constructing nonsensical artist statements.

To my surprise, they actually liked it and sent me a nice email “commending” me for it! And then the Hartford Courant wrote a little piece about the show the other day and quoted my artist statement. You know what? Saying “fuck it” can sometimes be the best way to go.

Here are the other 2 images from the Woodstock Flashback