mackaycartoons

Graeme MacKay's Editorial Cartoon Archive

  • Archives
  • DOWNLOADS
  • Kings & Queens
  • MacKaycartoons Inc.
  • Prime Ministers
  • Special Features
  • The Boutique
  • Who?
  • Young Doug Ford
  • Presidents

November 16, 2006

November 16, 2006 by Graeme MacKay

This week has been pretty easy in terms of finding a subject to cartoon on. Given the municipal elections we had early on this week there’s been plenty of fodder to satirize. Today’s cartoon focuses on Brad Clark, a feisty ex-provincial cabinet minister who might very well turn City Hall upside down in the next 4 years before moving up to the Mayor’s chair. Anyway, we’re bound to read a lot of headlines involving this new addition to City Hall, enough to deem his presence worthy of an editorial cartoon. Gut instinct is a part of what drives a cartoonist to pick his subject matter. Consider that as the foundation of what goes into an editorial cartoon. Here’s what happens after I get an idea for a cartoon:

Forgive the blurriness of the above images, but you get the point. After the cartoon is done it needs to go through a range of format processes. My newspaper requires a colour cartoon formatted as an EPS image at a resolution of 300 dpi in a rectangular shape of 496 X 378 points, the colour mode being CMYK which allows me to separate the blacks from the colours for a crisper image. My website requires a 72 dpi low res JPEG version of what my newspaper gets in the RGB mode. It also gets a small thumbnail image for that related cartoon feature I have beneath each main cartoon. My syndicate wants a 300 dpi JPEG image in RGB at 7.5 inches across (but they won’t get a version of this one because of its local subject matter.) A high resolution version at 600 dpi in a JPEG format goes to my personal archive for possible future use.

Posted in: Cartooning, Hamilton Tagged: Bernie Morelli, Brad Clark, Chad Collins, city hall, commentary, Hamilton, process, Sam Merulla
← November 15, 2006
November 18, 2006 →

Please note…

This website contains satirical commentaries of current events going back several decades. Some readers may not share this sense of humour nor the opinions expressed by the artist. To understand editorial cartoons it is important to understand their effectiveness as a counterweight to power. It is presumed readers approach satire with a broad minded foundation and healthy knowledge of objective facts of the subjects depicted.

  • The Hamilton Spectator
  • The Toronto Star
  • The Globe & Mail
  • The National Post
  • Graeme on T̶w̶i̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶(̶X̶)̶
  • Graeme on F̶a̶c̶e̶b̶o̶o̶k̶
  • Graeme on T̶h̶r̶e̶a̶d̶s̶
  • Graeme on Instagram
  • Graeme on Substack
  • Graeme on Bluesky
  • Graeme on Pinterest
  • Graeme on YouTube
New and updated for 2025
  • HOME
  • MacKaycartoons Inc.
  • The Boutique
  • The Hamilton Spectator
  • The Association of Canadian Cartoonists
  • The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists
  • You Might be From Hamilton if…
  • Young Doug Ford
  • MacKay’s Most Viral Cartoon
  • Intellectual Property Thief Donkeys
  • Wes Tyrell
  • Martin Rowson
  • Guy Bado’s Blog
  • National Newswatch
...Check it out and please subscribe!

Your one-stop-MacKay-shop…

T-shirts, hoodies, clocks, duvet covers, mugs, stickers, notebooks, smart phone cases and scarfs

2023 Coronation Design

Brand New Designs!

Follow Graeme's board My Own Cartoon Favourites on Pinterest.

MacKay’s Virtual Gallery

Archives

Copyright © 2016 mackaycartoons.net

Powered by Wordpess and Alpha.

Social media & sharing icons powered by UltimatelySocial