Cliffs of Insanity

Here's a visual theme I've been working on for a while:

As you can see, while I was sketching I had an idea for a line of "Don't Taze Me, Bro" T-Shirts. A quick google search revealed someone has already executed that idea. Here is how I used the cliff theme this week as it applies to the peace talks in Annapolis, MD.

Note that I removed the chairs from the table. They were really distracting my eye and it was getting hard to put everything on such a little piece of land. I figured if they actually got there they wouldn't need the chairs anyway.

I've been working on a series of etchings. An etching is a metal plate that has, through a series of steps, been drawn on to, eaten with acid, inked and printed through a printing press. This cliff idea is one of the plates I've been working on the last few months. I'm excited to show it here for the first time.

Note the really dark line on the right hand side and the sort of lighter lines on the bottom and top edges.....this is where I did not properly wipe off the ink from the edge of the plate. On a good clean print you would not see that.

I've used this image in a cartoon before. Earlier this year I used it to describe the fracture between the Black and Latino communities here in Los Angeles. It could run in the newspaper today, tomorrow or next year and would still be relevant.