For the time being, the political cartoons are going on an irregular schedule.  I know…I know…as if they haven’t been already.  But I’m making it official now, so as to reduce expectations for the time being.  I’ll still be producing gay rights themed political cartoons and posting them here…just not on a regular basis for a while, until I can get some more work done on A Coming Out Story…and until I can get some balance back in my perspective.  I haven’t had any community newspapers running my cartoons since January, so this decision isn’t affecting anyone’s publication schedule that I know of.

I’m too angry these days for my own good.  There was a time when doing the cartoon helped vent a lot of that.  Now when I sit down to draw what’s on my mind I just get even more angry and that’s not good personally or artistically.  I need to get some balance back in my perspective, perhaps do more artwork about life and love to balance out the artwork about the struggle against hate and prejudice.  That’s another good reason to focus more on A Coming Out Story, and also do some work like I was doing back in the 80s, on the topic of first love.

I had been finishing up the political cartoon late Sunday evening, listening to Pat Marino’s Sunset Cruise.  Hearing all those heartfelt love song dedications while I was working on these cartoons about our struggle for freedom and justice made me work all the harder at what I was doing, and for a time gave me some necessary perspective on it.  As long as there is love in the world, there is hope.  But now I just get too angry.  I need to go take a long walk in a happier place and get some balance back.  It’s no good being angry all the time.

I’m not abandoning the political cartoon.  It will just be a catch as catch can kinda thing for a while.  I’m going to be working most of the time for the rest of this summer on A Coming Out Story, and some other artwork down in my art room that is about love, not anger.  But as I need to vent a little from time to time, I’ll post something in the political cartoon page.  When I have something new up there I’ll notify all of you here.