Dignified GOP Debate

If you’d ask most anyone, they’d probably say that drawing cartoons seems like a pretty fun way to make a living. A lot of the time, that’s true. However, some days the ideas flit around above you just beyond reach and the pen ignores your commands. Today was one of those days. I drew two aggravatingly unsuccessful attempts before reaching some small semblance of satisfaction with the final drawing. Everything was throwing me off — Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson’s caricatures, the video screen, the perspective in the ‘toon, etc. The only thing I can do when this happens is grind my teeth, pull up my sleeves and crank it out — and hope that people understand the darn thing.