Drawings: Cartoons

Here are some of my cartoons. I've been honoring a family tradition, started by my father, Aalon Aaron Lee, of producing cartoons of questionable taste and timing on the occasion of special world moments. The cartoons below are displayed in roughly reverse chronological order of creation. Click on any for a larger view.

"ENDEAVOUR" TO COME HOME

(Pencil and Sharpie on paper, Jul 2020)

 

NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken are getting ready to return to Earth from the ISS aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon "Endeavour" spacecraft amid the COVID-19 crisis gripping our planet.

 

FRANK DRAKE TURNS 90

(Pencil and Sharpie on paper, Jun 2020)

 

Thank you Frank for your guidance, inspiration, and vision.

Your Equation might be universal...

THE DEATH STAR CAMPAIGN

(Pencil and Sharpie on paper, May 2020)

 

We are in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, as this is an election year, Trump-2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted "For nearly three years we have been building a juggernaut campaign (Death Star). It is firing on all cylinders. Data, Digital, TV, Political, Surrogates, Coalitions, etc. In a few days we start pressing FIRE for the first time."

I tried to picture what this might look like.

SOCIAL DISTANCING AND WASHING HANDS

(Pencil and charcoal on paper, Mar 2020)

 

The COVID-19 pandemic is upon us. Shelter-in-place orders are being issued. Everyone is told to maintain social distancing and to wash hands. Everyone...

INTERSTELLAR OBJECT BORISOV BREAKS UP...

(Pencil and charcoal on paper, Apr 2020)

 

Borisov was the second interstellar interloper ever discovered. It had a coma and broke up after its closest approach to the Earth and the Sun. By then, we were in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Was Borisov really just a comet?...

OUMUAMUA MOVES ON...

(Pencil and charcoal on paper, Nov 2018)

 

Oumuamua was the first Interstellar interloper ever discovered. It was reported to have an elongated shape. Was Oumuamua really just an asteroid?...

 

YOU TOO? By Aalon Aaron Lee

(The China Mail, 15 Sep 1962)

 

In 1962, my father, Aalon Lee, published a cartoon showing President John F. Kennedy teasing President Chiang Kai-Shek of the Republic of China (Taiwan), when a Taiwanese U-2 was shot down by a mainland Chinese SA-2 missile. The caption has JFK saying "You Too?", in reference to the American U-2 flown by Gary Powers shot down over the Soviet Union two years earlier.