"Like waving a red flag in front of a bull" - Daryl Cagle cartoon (AKA... DULL BULLS)

[Mira]

(.......I went to find this cartoon, all finished of course, in order to post it in anticipation of tomorrow's announcement about immigration reform. I was surprised to find the artist showed a progression of it's creation. I got a kick out of it, maybe you will as well.)

Words of the cartoonist, Daryl Cagle:

Today’s cartoon is inspired by a quote from incoming Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, who said that if President Obama does immigration reform with an executive order, over the objections of Republicans, that would be like, “waving a red flag in front of a bull.” Kind of obvious, but it was fun to draw McConnell and Boehner as bulls.

The drawing was a bit more difficult than usual. I think this is the first time I’ve ever drawn McConnell and I’m not really comfortable with him yet. My rough sketch is below.



I also struggled with how to draw the bulls’ penises in a way that editors could stand, without killing my cartoon. I like how bull penises seem to come out of the middle of their bellies, and I tried to be discreet.




I like to do line art for the black and white version of a cartoon, without gray tones. There is something more elegant about lines – although it is hard to call this cartoon “elegant.” Here is the color version …



I played a bit with making Boehner orange, and with making the bulls have more light and shadow, but whatever I tried was too busy and I ended up with dull bulls.

[Gothmog]

1. Great cartoon