New Yorker

Detroit News editorial cartoonist  Henry Payne has done a parody version of the controversial New Yorker cover which will appear on the back page of The Weekly Standard magazine's July 28 issue.

I'm back from vacation, and what a week I missed. Here's a brief round-up of the last week's worth of cartooning news.

Where's the Qur’an?: Barack and Michelle as fist-bumping terrorists on the cover of this week's New Yorker magazine (click to enlarge).The Obama campaign is condemning the “tasteless and offensive” illustration that appears on the cover of the New Yorker magazine this week that depicts U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in a turban, fist-bumping his gun-slinging wife, as the American flag burns in the fireplace.

“The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama's right-wing critics have tried to create," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.

A second opinion?: (Left) Paul Noth's cartoon appearing in this week's New Yorker. (Right) Jeff Darcy's editorial cartoon from two years ago.A cartoon that appears in the current issue of the New Yorker looks very similar to one done more than two years ago by Cleveland Plain Dealer editorial cartoonist Jeff Darcy.

Here's the latest installment of illustrator Steve Brodner's video series The Naked Campaign, which he files every week for the New Yorker.