Sean Taylor RIP

This was a tough cartoon for me because I didn’t want to be disrespectful at a time when emotions are running high. By all accounts, Sean Taylor had turned his life around since becoming a father a year and a half ago, but that still didn’t erase memories of his bad-boy, thug-life antics. I considered doing a cartoon that noted that past, but deemed it too harsh so soon after his death. I also didn’t want to make him look, as one editor put it, “angelic.” In the final version of the cartoon, I don’t think I was harsh at all, but you tell me: Am I making Taylor out to be a saint whom everyone loved?