On Sept. 21, I drew two cartoons with eagles. The first one is in response to the news of additional economic sanctions against North Korea, including banking restrictions that should put a crimp in the wallets of North Korea’s elites.
The second is a Mexican eagle cartoon (the eagle and snake characters on the Mexican flag).
Next to a weeping Statue of Liberty, weeping eagles are an editorial cartooning standard — so much so that we should probably avoid these cartoons, but when the times call for weeping eagle it is hard to say “no.”
About a month ago I vacationed in Mexico City with my family, staying in an Airbnb apartment in La Condesa, a neighborhood that was one of the hardest hit in the Sept. 19 earthquake that killed hundreds of people.
The scenes on TV look terribly familiar. It is a lovely neighborhood and the neighbors were all very nice; I’m not surprised to see the residents all pulling together in these difficult days.
Such a horror.
— Editorial cartoonist Daryl Cagle lives in Montecito and runs the CagleCartoons.com news syndicate, distributing editorial cartoons to more than 850 news sites and newspapers around the world, including Noozhawk. Contact him at editor@cagle.com, follow his blog at www.darylcagle.com and follow him on Twitter: @dcagle. Click here for previous cartoons. The opinions expressed are his own.
