The Tattooed Bandit
I did this comic for the opinion section of The Oregonian on Sunday--my first comic on a local issue for them.
Sheriff Bernie Giusto is barely hanging on to his job. The list of ethical violations he has committed is too long to go into, but a recent one is laid out in the first panel so you can understand the comic even if you don't known who the guy is. The last panel is a reference to Portland's recent crackdown on fare dodgers on the light rail.
It felt great doing something on a local topic. All of my comics are on national issues and it's hard to imagine Bush and all the presidential candidates seeing my work. A local comic is pretty satisfying because the target has a chance to read it.
I'll be doing local work for them from time to time and will post it here.
Sheriff Bernie Giusto is barely hanging on to his job. The list of ethical violations he has committed is too long to go into, but a recent one is laid out in the first panel so you can understand the comic even if you don't known who the guy is. The last panel is a reference to Portland's recent crackdown on fare dodgers on the light rail.
It felt great doing something on a local topic. All of my comics are on national issues and it's hard to imagine Bush and all the presidential candidates seeing my work. A local comic is pretty satisfying because the target has a chance to read it.
I'll be doing local work for them from time to time and will post it here.
posted by Matt Bors at
5:52 PM
5 Comments:
Hey, that's a cool gig. Congrats!
After a year or two now of reading your comic, I have been inspired to lead a revolt against the boring, unintelligible, and lazy comics that occasionally fill up the editorial page in my college newspaper. Too long have I sat idly by and not laughed at political jokes that lie on a worse intellectual level as Mallard Fillmore. Unfortunately I can't draw so I'm getting help, but know that your work has raised my awareness of the level of suck-age in political cartooning. CWA rules!
Mallard Fillmore is ridiculously lacking in wit or humor. How's he get such good circulation?
forksmuggler,
Balance, my friend, for that evil, liberal-commie comic strip known as "Doonesbury."
Matt,
Thanks! Glad I was of some inspiration. Most "mainstream" editorial cartoonists are failing to deliver good, insightful commentary and moving toward gag panels (and not even good ones half the time).
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