Dan Kirchoff
Editorial Cartoons
One never makes friends drawing editorial (political) cartoons for newspapers. So when the three local Maine newspapers, The Courier-Gazette in Rockland, The Camden Herald in Camden and The Republican Journal in Belfast, asked me to draw these cartoons, I expected to have crosses burning on my lawn. That said, the opposite has been the case, with compliments and even the occasional fan mail. Here are some of my favorites.
Here in Maine, the voter registration numbers don’t lie.
There are just too many candidates in our mailboxes saying their opponent is going to destroy the country.
After a while, voters find themselves ignoring the ongoing battles of the ballots.
After all is said and done, aren’t you glad it’s over?
Government regulators are threatening Maine’s primary industry.
Maine has a chronic shortage of affordable housing while it needs more workers. The main artery coming into the state is over the Piscataqua River bridge.
Remembering the January 6th attack on our nation’s capital.
When a resident suggested they put the free clinic over where the “poor” people go, we reacted.
The Camden Post Office was closed an awful long time....
Maine is trying to decide if it should buy out the major electric utilities in the state and hire them back to operate the grid.
The Unity Town Meeting was rumored to have lasted at least 7 or 8 hours this year.
We were having some fun with the idea of returning to the moon, in the new Artemis space suits.
Sure, Maine is scenic. You just don't want to be around when the lawn signs come out.
Sometimes Mainers are surprised to find the different parties in the state government are actually getting along.
The closed Colonial Theatre in Belfast (Maine) may be reopened by a nonprofit group as evidenced by the large statue of an elephant that lives on the roof.
With apologies to Norman Rockwell, these two Maine communities need to learn to get along.
Celebrating Pride Month here in midcoast Maine.
The growing popularity of pickleball nicely illustrates Maine economic issues.
What do you do when fields that produce food change to fields that produce electricity?
Sometimes researching an issue gets in the way of actually doing something about it.
Often, the Camden Conference seems to be the only institution capable of managing these things.
So what was the Spanish doing when they arrived on these shores?
When a local conservation group seems to have thwarted the efforts of a land-based fish farm....
Shouldn’t municipal websites make it easier to find information?
Sears Island has come under yet another proposal for development, this time with a climate change theme.
With The Camden Herald changing to a tabloid format, we had some ideas of what readers could do with it.
The Republican Journal was going to a larger, broadsheet format, so we had some ideas of what readers could do with it.
Sometimes you can’t see the beautiful Maine scenery for all the cars....
You heard it here first, folks.