Humor and Seriousness

And the strength of Cassy

I admit it was hard to work on Monday, after the Roe V Wade ruling. Nothing seemed funny. I did a few related cartoons and sent them into The New Yorker, however. We will see.

The January 6th emergency hearing yesterday was riveting. I did one drawing of Cassidy Hutchinson, the young aid to Mark Meadows who calmly and clearly testified. What a brave woman, and I’m impressed with her desire to do the right thing. Little did the swamp creatures that inhabited the West Wing know that they were bringing an idealistic, principled young person (24 at the time!) into the inner sanctum of their madness, and that she might possibly be their undoing. They weren’t thinking clearly (on a lot of fronts). I hope her testimony leads to more testimony, and more information….and indictment.

The New Yorker has a “Daily Cartoon” online and submission for that is every weekday before 9 am. This morning, I submitted to the Daily, and went political with these two below. The first one doesn’t have a lot of meaning, I was just being silly. The second is perhaps too close to the truth.

If you didn’t listen to the part about Cassy discovering ketchup on the wall of the Oval Office dining room, it might be too hard to expain. But here is a tweet about it.

Trump was clearly unhinged when he threw his lunch plate at the wall, and then later on January 6th when he made a last ditch effort to lead an armed mob of his supporters down to the Capitol to stop vote certification and grab the presidency by force. He want to lead a coup, pure and simple, but the security detail and his lawyer would not allow it. In some ways I wish they had let him completely grab the steering wheel of the Beast, as was reported he tried to, and let him drive down to the Capitol and try to get back the presidency (although for him, it would have been to get a dictatorship). Then he would have been arrested and thrown in jail and we would have been done with him.

I am already seeing the movie in my head, this seems like fiction, but of course it wasnt’….and isn’t.

We aren’t out of this yet by any stretch of the imagination. I am impressed with the January 6th Commission, and wish the Justice Department would start going after people (BTW, Rudy Guiliani seems like a real nutcase and may have completely lost his grasp of reality).

That’s it for today. Here’s something: I am thinking of starting a podcast. Let me know if you would find that interesting and what you would like to hear in a podcast from a New Yorker cartoonist and observer. I am going to open up comments to everyone for this!