The (second) first 100 days: A retrospective

MY CAREER AS an editorial cartoonist owes much to Donald Trump. I am a lifelong political junkie, and I followed Trump’s improbable rise to political office from the first of the Republican debates in 2015. When I watched the candidates jockeying and posturing on the screen, I often sketched them and wrote next to the sketch some snippet of their oration that struck me as comedic. They were only cartoons because of the cartoonish things my subjects would say, but that process led me to try my hand at political cartooning.

In September of 2016, an editor at SFWeekly gave me the chance to do a Week in Review for the paper that included three of my cartoons each issue, a good way to look back on what the week had wrought. I attended the Republican Convention in Cleveland in 2016 and, after the election, I cartooned at Trump’s 2017 inauguration and the Washington D.C. Women’s March.