I posted two cartoon posts using different methods. I have not heard back if that stopped the broken links or not. So I have not included them in this post. If anyone needs the links to those post please let me know. The Cagle site has great cartoons but is useless as a source if people can’t see them. Hugs
From the page one of the bonus I just scheduled. I am trying to see if there is a way I can get the Cagle cartoons to display. The other thing is a few people have said that some of the cartoons don’t display and that the link is broken. Barry in New Zealand is an IT expert who has sent me an email on it. I will post it after this for anyone that can use the method he describes. These cartoons are all from the same site the one that Barry tells me is the one that the links are broken unless he uses a VPN. Cagle.com, and that is sad because those are some of the best ones. I have been posting them in the classic mode. This batch of cartoons will only be from the Cagle site but I will do it on the block editor mode to see if that will solve the problem. Plus I will be posting two versions of each one to see if that makes a difference. I just realized that there may be a way to embed them that automatically does to the URL what Barry suggested after the first two. One thing that would help is if the cartoons don’t display for you leave a comment and let me know the country you are in. Thank you. Best wishes for all and hugs for those that want them.
Hi Scottie. Not sure of this helps, A large number of image links are broken and won’t show unless I use a US hosted VPN, as I have described before. But I have found another way, and that is to slightly modify the URL:
https://i0.wp.com/image.cagle.com/299916/830/becs_robert-f-kennedy-jrs-hobby-.png?ssl=1
is a broken link. Trying to open it directly results in the message “We cannot complete this request, remote data could not be fetched”, but truncating the URL to:
https://i0.wp.com/image.cagle.com/299916/830/becs_robert-f-kennedy-jrs-hobby-.png
and bingo! Just chopping off “?ssl=1” is all it takes to allow the image to display correctly. Likewise, changing:
https://i0.wp.com/image.cagle.com/299938/830/rick-mckee_avoiding-the-state-of-the-world.png?ssl=1
to
https://i0.wp.com/image.cagle.com/299938/830/rick-mckee_avoiding-the-state-of-the-world.png
allows that image to display. All the broken links are the same: All begin with “i0.wp.com/image.cagle.com” and end with “?ssl=1”
Now for the cartoons
Woot!
Let’s Go To Nader’s by Clay Jones
At least we’ll know what we’re getting Read on Substack
This cartoon was drawn for the FXBG Advance.
Back on July 6, I published another cartoon on this same issue. A sketchy developer is asking for Fredericksburg to zone an area for homes, apartments, retail space, and for it all to be anchored by a “specialty” grocery store. The catch is, the city won’t be allowed to know which grocery store it’s getting. And now, they’ve taken a closer step to approving it.
Nader’s is a downtown grocery store in Fredericksburg, and it’s an institution. But over the years, I’ve heard complaints about it being the only grocery store downtown. It’s probably Fredericksburg’s version of a Bodega. A Bohemian friend of mine wrote a song about the place. I think Nader’s name has changed, but it’s always going to be known as Nader’s. It is by the Purina tower and the train station.
Creative note: I came up with this idea while on the train to my convention last Thursday. Because of all the shenanigans happening here, I wasn’t able to finish the cartoon until Friday afternoon. I drew this in the lobby so I could spend more time with my colleagues, and a LOT of them were looking over my shoulder watching me draw this. That would have been intimidating a few years ago, as most of them are better artists than I am, but they’re really the coolest people and are super supportive.
During the awards ceremony Saturday night, the president of the AAEC, Marc Murphy, mentioned that the winner of the Rex Babin Award was drawing (a local cartoon) in the lobby with friends watching. And that’s how I knew I had just won the award. More on this soon. (snip)
Hearing how the Right has immediately called for a war with Democrats without knowing who the shooter is or what was their intent, it makes you think they don’t care.
They want Epstein out of the headlines. They want Russia owning Trump out of the headlines.
Roughs, Volume 258 by Clay Jones
Ding-Dong! Roughs are here! Read on Substack
You’re not going to get a new cartoon from me until Sunday. Say what? I’m ahead of schedule with last night’s Charlie Kirk cartoon, dated for September 19. But you will get new content here daily.
I’m in North Bethesda, Maryland for my cartoonist association’s annual convention today, and that’s why I got ahead with work. But I’m going to post stuff about the convention while I’m there. I plan to do at least one Zoom conversation with another cartoonist while at the convention. And today, you’re getting a blog of roughs.
Speaking of the Charlie Kirk cartoon, I got a death threat today. First, it was a death wish, as in, “I hope you and your family get what Charlie Kirk got,” and then it turned into, “you’re easy to find.” I consider that a death threat. And why is he threatening my family? They’re innocent, and in fact, two of them posted on the cartoon on Facebook to tell me I’m disgusting and an asshole. Anyhoos….
DING-DONG! Roughs are here!
I drew this on August 27 and made it a real cartoon a few days later.
I liked it so much that I nearly roughed it out twice.
This was my first idea, and I roughed it out on August 28. By the way, I’m writing this on a train. Let’s blame today’s typos on that.
Here’s another I roughed out twice. This was drawn on August 28.
I even lettered this version. It grew up to become a real cartoon.
this was drawn on August 29 and became a real cartoon. It got comments.
I roughed this out on August 29, and became a real cartoon for the FXBG Advance.
I drew this on September 1, and it became a two-panel cartoon.
I drew this on September 2, and I might like it more than the version I went with.
I was just goofing around with this on September 9. Why do I keep hearing about pickleball?
I roughed this out for the FXBG Advance on September 5. It became a real cartoon.
I liked naming some of my colleagues here, but I thought it was too many words. I roughed this up on September 9.
This was also drawn on September 9, but I went with something else.
I drew this on September 9, it became a real cartoon, and it got a lot of comments. A LOT of comments. I can’t wait for it to land on GoComics, which will be tomorrow.
I just got my idea for the FXBG Advance’s Sunday cartoon approved, but it wasn’t my first idea.
For context, we have some new public schools in this area. I got this idea and emailed it to my editor early this morning (September 11) with the subject line: “How brave are you feeling this morning?” (snip-MORE, both roughs and commentary)
On 9-11-2025 My car shut down while I was driving. I managed to coast to a side road to stop and thankfully I was able to get the car off the main road and to a safe place to stop. Called AAA and then used the app to get a two truck. So I was needing the breakdown lane. Hugs
The below cartoon was done by an extreme right cartoonist who refuses to admit the right doesn’t anything wrong and puts the entire blame for anything wrong on the left / democrats. Notice that in the list of voices the right wing hate media is missing. Hugs
I do not mourn for Kirk. Nor will I sanitize the hate and desire for harm that Kirk spewed. He preached harm for anyone not white Christian straight cis and male. The fact that the very violence and lies he was throwing at others was the cause of the anger at him is something tRump and the right refuses to see or admit. tRump gave a speech where he attacked those who belittle and insult those they disagree with and call them names. Of course he failed to include himself in that list. He spoke of all the republican figures subject to violence from the rhetoric being spoken, but he failed to mention anyone on the left or democrats that had been harmed including the recent democratic state senators and house members. His own son Don Jr joked about the Paul Pelosi attack by a right winger and said his hallowing costume was a hammer and tight whites. But according to tRump it is the left, the entire left that is causing the violence and of course no trans person should have a gun. Hugs
