Category Archives: Cartoons
Debate-Out!!
Click to embiggen.
Post-Convention Bounce
Click to embiggen.
Nadermania!
From the Files is a series presenting choice selections from my extensive and highly disorganized physical archives here at Home Base. Here you’ll find lost cartoons, unfinished art, and forgotten doodles. Enjoy.
I believe this unfinished cartoon was from 2008, when Ralph Nader was considering running for president again:
Click to embiggen.
Look Into My Eyes…
Click to embiggen.
Boss
From the Files is a series presenting choice selections from my extensive and highly disorganized physical archives here at Home Base. Here you’ll find lost cartoons, unfinished art, and forgotten doodles. Enjoy.
This portrait of Raúl Castro, no doubt from 2008 when he became President of Cuba, was gathering dust on some bookshelf:
Click to embiggen.
Tampa Tales: Love & Respect
I’ll be doing cartoons this week about the 2012 Republican National Convention, currently being held in Tampa, Florida. Stay tuned next week for cartoons about the Democrats’ convention in Charlotte, North Carolina!
Pedicure
From the Files is a series presenting choice selections from my extensive and highly disorganized physical archives here at Home Base. Here you’ll find lost cartoons, unfinished art, and forgotten doodles. Enjoy.
Sketched this many years ago in New York City, the scene through the front window of a Korean nail salon. This incredibly fat dude in a Knicks jacket was getting a pedicure while talking on his cell phone.
Click to embiggen.
Obama Feeding the Multitude
From the Files is a series presenting choice selections from my extensive and highly disorganized physical archives here at Home Base. Here you’ll find lost cartoons, unfinished art, and forgotten doodles. Enjoy.
This cartoon was set to run last September, but I never finished it for whatever reason. This raw scan gives you a glimpse into the way my process works sometimes — I’ll often draw elements of the image separately and assemble them in Photoshop. This one was meant to recall religious iconography.
Click to embiggen.
Growth
I was monkeying around with Photoshop’s animated GIF maker when I decided to throw together this animated self-portrait. I think I might try my hand at animation again (it’s been a long time).
I wish I could do this at will.
Coronation
From the Files is a series presenting choice selections from my extensive and highly disorganized physical archives here at Home Base. Here you’ll find lost cartoons, unfinished art, and forgotten doodles. Enjoy.
An unpublished cartoon from 2008 about John McCain locking up the Republican nomination:
Click to embiggen.
America’s Comeback Team!
Click to embiggen.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
From the Files is a series presenting choice selections from my extensive and highly disorganized physical archives here at Home Base. Here you’ll find lost cartoons, unfinished art, and forgotten doodles. Enjoy.
I apologize profusely for the cliché in the title, but finding this cartoon comparison of my 2002 and 2008 selves on an old computer forces my hand:
This baby is a GIF, so you’ll absolutely want to click to embiggen.
I’ll have to update this again for 2012, I think. I have entirely different hipster glasses but I’ve been known to still wear the Lincoln beard from time to time.
Tinge of the Ginge
I just had to post the high-resolution version of the ginger-haired dude from one of the labels I posted yesterday. Be sure to click to embiggen. Look at the lace on that glass!
If you don’t know by now, click to embiggen. As in make it big.
Caricature of the Week: Angela Merkel
As the situation in Europe continues to worsen, all eyes are on German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Click to embiggen.
From the Files: Republican Gothic & Turd Blossom
From the Files is a series presenting choice selections from my extensive and highly disorganized physical archives here at Home Base. Here you’ll find lost cartoons, unfinished art, and forgotten doodles. Enjoy.
Here are a few pieces I made for a gallery show in East Lansing in 2006. The show ended up not happening, but these survived:
“Republican Gothic.” Click to embiggen.
Check out a portrait of Karl Rove after the jump: Continue reading
From the Files: State News Tryout Cartoons
From the Files is a series presenting choice selections from my extensive and highly disorganized physical archives here at Home Base. Here you’ll find lost cartoons, unfinished art, and forgotten doodles. Enjoy.
These three cartoons were the ones I drew when I applied for the editorial cartoonist position at The State News in 2005. I’ve lost the original files, but printouts of them have been hanging framed in my parents’ house for some time:
Click to embiggen.
See the other two after the jump: Continue reading
Badass Rooster
Just applied for a freelance gig that involves drawing cartoon/clip-art animals. The ad specifically asked for applicants to submit a freehand drawing of a “badass rooster”:
Roosters are technically dinosaurs, which makes them badass by default.
In case you were wondering, this is the theme song of badass roosters everywhere.
Caricature of the Week: Jon Hamm
Playing around with some color effects on a monochrome image. Not sure if I like it.
Click to embiggen.
New Facebook Cover, Wherein I’m Lynched by Teabaggers
As always, click to embiggen.
I’m going to make a new one of these every month. Check it out in its full glory on my Facebook page.
From the Files: Caption Contest!
From the Files is a series presenting choice selections from my extensive and highly disorganized physical archives here at Home Base. Here you’ll find lost cartoons, unfinished art, and forgotten doodles. Enjoy.
Found this unfinished cartoon from 2011 the other day — I think I abandoned it halfway through due to its similarity to this excellent cartoon by Tim Kreider. I don’t have any recollection as to what the cartoon was supposed to be about, other than something related to the United States and the United Kingdom (as personified by Uncle Sam and John Bull).
Click to embiggen.
Help finish this cartoon by providing a caption/dialogue! Leave your best in the comments, or send them my way at mikeramsey5 at gmail dot com or via Twitter @mikeramsey.
From the Files: Billy the Brontosaur®
From the Files is a series presenting choice selections from my extensive and highly disorganized physical archives here at Home Base. Here you’ll find lost cartoons, unfinished art, and forgotten doodles. Enjoy.
Six Months
Click to embiggen. Cross-posted at The Clarion Call, Clarion University of Pennsylvania’s student newspaper.
This is the last cartoon I’ll ever draw for a college publication. I’ve been drawing in college papers on and off since 2005, and have accumulated a large mass of published work that comes to a close with this cartoon. Truly, the end of an era.
Spring
Click to embiggen. Cross-posted at The Clarion Call.
The weather’s getting warmer, and like the gentle dandelion the #Occupy movement is back on the sidewalks. Also like the dandelion, the rich pay people to remove them from their property by spraying them with chemicals.
Where Did I Go Wrong?
Click to embiggen. Cross-posted at The Clarion Call.
