Here’s my most recent cartoon from this week’s edition of The Economist. Any resemblance between the disreputable character portrayed in the cartoon and any cartoonist alive or dead is purely coincidental… more or less.

The local NPR station in Baltimore, WYPR (88.1FM) did a lengthy interview this week about the 2010 Illustrated wall Kalendar and other things related to The Economist. It’s long (15 minutes) and is the second leg of the hour long show which is called The Signal.

The show airs Friday, January 8 at noon and again at 7PM. But they have already released the show on the web. Here’s the link to the web audio ( my interview starts at the 15:30 mark).

Let’s hope our world isn’t thrown upside down this year!

This Just In!  Baltimore Breakfast TV WJZ interviews me today about the 2010 wall calendar. You can view the interview Here

Here’s a sneak peek at the May spread of the new 2010 Economist illustrated wall calendar. You can order the calendar through The Economist website here , via the Kaltoons bookstore or place a phone order at 1-800-456-6086.  Only $15.00!

Recently in Washington DC, The Economist held a fabulous event titled The World in 2010 Festival. It featured a diverse and exhilarating group of speakers speculating on the events and trends for the upcoming year.

Among the guest’s was John Oliver, correspondent for The Daily Show. He delivered a terrific performance  which included a stand up routine and a “Tonight Show” style interview session with Oliver acting as host (See video below). I had the assignment of capturing the day’s events in a cartoon sketchbook. You can see some of the sketches below.

Included in the program was a short talk by me chatting about caricature and Obama in 2010. (see video above)

The Festival also included a trip to the recording of “Meet The Press” where we saw the physically imposing David Gregory interview NYT columnist Tom Friedman.

Here’s a sneak peek at the December spread of the new 2010 Economist illustrated wall calendar. You can order the calendar through The Economist website here , via the Kaltoons bookstore or place a phone order at 1-800-456-6086.  Only $15.00! Great holiday gift!

Here’s a sneak peek at the August spread of the new 2010 Economist illustrated wall calendar. You can order the calendar through The Economist website here , via the Kaltoons bookstore or place a phone order at 1-800-456-6086.  Only $15.00! Great holiday gift!

With President Obama’s important speech this week on the war in Afghanistan, I wanted to share some recent cartoons I did on the subject for the Economist (above)… and one from way back in October, 2001 (below)…