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I drew this self portrait after we had a big hacker attack that erased our servers, and we could identify that the attack came from China. I can still feel their breath on my neck.

This self-portrait is me with my daughter, Susie, 28 years ago, in a comic I did that ran for about a year in the weekly "TV Times" magazine in the UK and a similar national TV guide type magazine in Australia. Notice the old TV, and old land-line phone, and young Susie.

Here's another old self-portrait. This one is from back when I had a beard and I got my marijuana license. Now marijuana is everywhere and you don't need a license (in California). That's progress, I suppose. This ran as a full page in our local Santa Barbara Independent and it features my wife, Peg and son, Buster.

France Cartoons is collecting self portraits of cartoonists, which has me rummaging through my drawers. This is me from Trump's first term when I had a white beard. People are still asking me "What happened to the beard?" Trump hasn't changed, though.

Here is a self portrait I did 50 years ago, in 1976, when I was 19 years old and a student at Santa Barbara City College. This is pencil on Graphix Duoshade paper (which I miss). Yes, that's what I looked like. That's how we all dressed in the 1970s.

This is my new cartoon for if Proposition 50 passes on Tuesday. (That's the California flag with the bear mooning the Republicans.) I expect that Prop 50 will win, so I drew this in advance. I decided not to give it a title mentioning prop 50; maybe that was a mistake. Hey, I just posted a new Caglecast/podcast with a lot of talk about A.I. --go look. #gerrymandering #YesOnProp50

I drew a syndicated comic/panel with Tribune 30 years ago, called TRUE!, with funny facts. Interesting that so many of them still look fresh. I've been animating them and thinking of bringing back the evergreens as an animated e-book. Here's one I just posted as a YouTube short. The brain French-kissing/tasting made me laugh. I'll post new ones each day on @caglecast" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@caglecast this week. You can also see a couple of very nice Taylor Jones animated cartoons that I recently posted there.

I'm posting these animations as YouTube Shorts. To make it portrait rather than landscape I added the title and attribution type above and below. Notice that the first frame is always my original drawing, which the animation departs from and loops back to. The shorts are going up with my video podcasts at Caglecast.com. I haven't deceded to keep doing them, but I'm still intrigued. Sign up for our free email newsletter at Cagle.com/subscribe

My new animated editorial cartoon is based on this still original pencil drawing. This one is on the government shutdown.

This cute italian local wanted me to draw her as her dog (who she carried with her) roller skating. See the video about our event in Italy: youtu.be/ZZPaXJ4IsAo

This nice italian local wanted me to draw him as a mouse with a cat. See the video about our event in Italy: youtu.be/ZZPaXJ4IsAo

I recently went to the World Humor Awards in Italy. It is split between competition/editorial cartoonlike cartoons and caricatures, and has a kind of caricature artist culture, so they spent a bunh of time having the attending cartoonists sit to do caricatures of the locals. That's unusal for me, but I enjoyed it. It was typically at a restaurant with lots of free drinks. This nice fellow, Marco Gambarelli just sent me a photo with the caricature I did of him as an elephant. See my Caglecast video podcast about the World Humor Awards: youtu.be/ZZPaXJ4IsAo

With Trump's new China tariffs, dollars aren't tasting so good. Here's a new animation. Let me know how you love or hate it. I was happy with this one. #China #PandaNews #tariffs #RareEarth

China Rare Earths policies bounced back into the news yesterday and tanked the stock market. Here's my cartoon. Remember to subscribe to our free daily email newsletter at Cagle.com/subscribe And check out our podcast about cartoonist from China, Luojie: youtu.be/Xctj089uXJk

Here's another AI animation of one of my cartoons. Let me know what you think of this one. And please subscribe to our cool, free email newsletter at Cagle.com/subscribe

This is a black and white oldie about White House environmental policy. You might miss it, but the AI is treating the smokestacks like cigars, burning down to the White House roof --implying that there's an impending, disturbing consequence to the White House from their nasty deeds. I thought that was interesting, so I like this one. Subscribe to our free email newsletter at Cagle.com/subscribe

The new Grok Imagine AI. Do you have a better choice for this kind of thing, Rick?

Here's another AI animation of one of my cartoons that made me laugh. I don't know that Grok is something I can really use. The process is pretty random --Grok Imagine AI just does what it wants and kind of ignores my prompts. (For example, every time I tell it "no music" and it still does music.) Its like a 2 year old. But sometimes I like it. Maybe its like a slot machine - if it pays off once in a while I'll keep throwing money in, and I'm a loser in the long run. Hey! Subscribe to our free email newletter at Cagle.com/subscribe