Mike Luckovich: The Round File for June 2016

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Mike Luckovich: The Round File for June 2016

Mike's comment: Mass shootings have become so common, it’s difficult to come up with new ways to express the shock and outrage at them -- and at Republicans who continue to do the NRA’s bidding. This was my first idea.

Mike's comment: This was my next idea.

Mike's comment: And the next one.

Mike's comment: I kind of liked the message of this one, but I couldn’t do it. That toddler that was dragged away by the alligator - it was just too terrible to do a cartoon referencing that tragedy. I didn’t even show this one to my editor.

Mike's comment: This is the one I ended up drawing. I liked the simplicity.

Mike's comment: There’s a famous photo of a large crowd of Germans giving Adolf the 'Heil Hitler' salute. There is a single guy in the whole crowd with his arms folded, refusing to follow the crowd. It reminded me of most Republicans falling in line behind Trump. This led me to my next sketch…

Mike's comment: I kind of liked this but the caption was clunky and I wanted to focus on Paul Ryan endorsing Trump despite Trump’s racism.

Mike's comment: This is the one I ended up doing. I like it a lot. My editor received a number of complaints from readers.

Mike's comment: I kind of liked this idea too on the Stanford swimmer rapist who got off with the light sentence. I ended up not doing a cartoon on this topic.

Mike's comment: Republicans are blocking Zika funding just as mosquito season picks up. They can be really stupidly evil sometimes. I ended up not doing a cartoon on this topic either. Maybe next week.

Mike's comment: Georgia Sen. David Perdue began a conservative conference referencing an Old Testament verse calling for God to kill your enemy -- in this case, Obama. It reminded me of the time that other congressional Republican yelled, “you lie” during Obama’s 2009 State of the Union address. It led me to my next idea, which I drew.

Mike's comment: This is the cartoon I finally drew to be published Sunday, June 12.

Mike comments: Other than a local cartoon on the Braves stadium in Cobb, all my cartoons this week were about Trump. He overwhelms the news cycle. I drew this sketch tying Trump to the gorilla that had been shot at the Cincinnati zoo, but the shooting made me feel bad. This sketch made me uncomfortable and I didn’t do it.

Mike comments: This was the cartoon I ended up doing.

Mike comments: Trump University was a great topic this week. This was my first sketch on that issue. I knew I could do better.

Mike comments: This was my next idea. It was headed in the right direction, but not quite there yet.

Mike comments: This is the cartoon I ended up doing. It was fun drawing it. Since it’s going in a family newspaper on Sunday, I couldn’t make the butt cracks too in-your-face.

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