SlowpokeBlog

The obvious subject matter for political cartoons these days is Richard Clarke's revelation that Bush is a clueless idiot when it comes to fighting terrorism, but so many great cartoons had been done already (like the Toles one below) I felt I had nothing much to add. Hence this little jab at the administration's War on the Environment. My apologies to the excellent cartoonist Don Asmussen ("Bad Reporter") for using his patented newspaper headline format; I initially thought "WHITE HOUSE LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO 'SAVE OUR OFFICE PARKS'" would make a nice Onion headline, but since I'm a cartoonist and not a writer for the Onion, I had to draw a fake newspaper. The whole office parks concept came about when I was driving around a few weeks ago, looking for a drafting chair to accompany my new drawing table. My travels took me to some soul-crushing landscapes that filled me with nothing short of existential despair. Fortunately, existential despair makes for good cartoon fertilizer.