Standard & Poors threatens California, and we shrug.

editorial cartoon of standard & poors wiggle their finger at California
Standard & poors is so last decade

New form for Editorial Cartoons

Having a little fun with the presentation and colors, here! Even in a single panel cartoon, I like to shake things up in the stodgy editorial cartoon world: the layout, the dialogue, the process of moving eyeballs through the cartoon, to make it almost seem to move. Youtube in a still image! (Not a fan of animation, but experimentation, yes.) This turned out better than I had hoped. 🙂

Do Standard & Poor matter?

Back to the topic, is Standard & Poor’s credit rating really something on the mind of most residents in the state of California?! Really, who gives a flying fig?

It wasn’t very long ago that most governments could just buy a top-grade AAA rating no matter what their actual financial health was.

None of the numbers tell the story of financial health now.

From my weekly cartoon feature on California news & politics. Try out this California cartoon for powerpoint,  newsletters, blogs, books, etc. Details here.

ID # 120618       Caption: With California’s $15.7 billion budget deficit, Standard & Poors might… [What?@ Order Gov Brown to stay indefinitely?? Raze our home for the bullet train??] …no, give us a negative rating. Dog says, Rough! (ruff!)

Donna Barstow

Donna Barstow

Syndicated cartoonist in the New Yorker, LA Times, Harvard Business Review, Slate, textbooks, papers. Columnist for 10 years in Psychology Today. Set painter in studio Art Depts. Member Scriptwriters Network, script analyst. Author, 2 hardcopy books, Barnes & Noble Calendar.