DailyKos is a great place for an artist/cartoonist. I'm inspired by the brilliant and insightful IrishKorean, Eppie, Buhdy, OPOL and Dood Abides, and am grateful for Kossacks' encouragement of my offerings. Special thanks to VolvoDriving Liberal, and to marykk, who have been particularly kind.
The theme of Cheney as Brando in "The Godfather" was suggested by a Kossack in Dood Abides' great GOPranos diary - http://www.dailykos.com/...
The bird on his shoulder is one of the vultures that is coming home to roost.
This piece is based on something I did a year ago, now tailored to fit Mr. Cheney. It's available on gear at http://cafepress.com/...
Compositor for Macintosh is the program I use for most of my art. It has an elegant and intuitive interface. I think it's much easier and nicer to work with than other graphics programs that cost ten times as much - and handle like tanks. Get yours free for a month from http://www.artlythere.com/