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A Trump cartoon a day keeps the existential angst away, artist finds

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Robert Everett-Green
Published March 28, 2018
Updated March 28, 2018

Rage can be a great motivator, as Jesse Duquette discovered on the day of the Trump White House’s first press conference. Duquette made a satirical cartoon of the event, posted it on social media, and vowed to do at least one Trump-related cartoon every day, “till this thing ends in cuffs or calamity.”

Fourteen months later, Duquette’s cartoon marathon is still running. The Daily Don, which appears on Instagram and Facebook, documents the president’s words, deeds and pretensions, in images that maintain a fine balance between humour and scorn.

“Trying to make it funny helps to deflate the topic,” Duquette said during a recent phone interview. “On a day when something really egregious happens, it’s a therapeutic process.”

The Daily Don doesn’t appear in any publication, and has received little notice from mainstream U.S. media. When the history of Trump’s reign is written, however, it could turn out that the most relentlessly on-point cartoon record of his administration was made not by a professional satirist in New York or Washington, but by a citizen cartoonist from northwestern Massachusetts.

[Slideshow: Some of which have been posted here.]

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/article-a-trump-cartoon-a-day-keeps-the-existential-angst-away-artist-finds/

As far as i know mine wasn't one, but, on snagging this one just now, it felt the newly discovered (for me) Jesse Duquette effort deserved a mention.