David Baldinger - Cartoonist & Photographer

See you on the dark side of the moon... Richard Wright, founding member, vocalist, and keyboardist of the rock group Pink Floyd, has died. He was 65. Wright met Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason in college and joined their early band, Sigma 6. Along with the late Syd Barrett, the four formed Pink Floyd in 1965.

Caricature Of Kim Jong-il by ~ davidbdr on deviant ART Selected Cartoon Dr. Strangejong or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb While Stalinist despot Kim Jong Il is making his depleted country and his world's fifth largest army (1.2 mill. soldiers) ready for the nuclear age, a unique art exhibition is running in the Art Center Berlin: " Art from Pyongyang " . The artworks are made with loving hands, yet mostly kitschy and available for buyers with little money. They almost seem to be off this world. Among the exhibits are artworks with a clearly propagandistic statement - without compromising the capitalist enemy USA. In the work "Kim-Jong-iL", artist David Baldinger addresses the leader with a clear statement: Kim is the despot who is gone berserk, the one who spends the national budget for his military despite the big poverty in his country - his eyes always pointed at the atom. He's the little boy who spends his lunch money ...

Morales Takes On Bush by ~ davidbdr on deviant ART My latest cartoon.

GOP Whore by ~ davidbdr on deviant ART

Watch more cool animation and creative cartoons at aniBoom \ I've been playing with an animation software called "Creatoon." The program simulates cut-out style animation. It has some odd quirks but is really simple (which I like very much). This test was done to work out some movement problems I was having. Sometimes elements of characters would drift in directions I didn't intend. I think I've figured out that headache. This program is now free to download at Creatoon since it is no longer being developed. Many professional television programs around the world were produced using this software. It would be nice if the company would release the code so it could be further developed. A way to lip sync would be great. Sound files can be imported for use while animating but the sound can only be " scrubbed ."

1916 - 2008 Bill Melendez, best known for bringing the Peanuts characters to life with such classics as "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," died Tuesday at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica. He was 91.

At the Cleveland house where Superman was born in the mind of Jerry Siegel, "The Book Of Lies" author Brad Meltzer wants watchers to find their inner Supermen and help preserve the structure for posterity. More information can be found at Ordinary People Change The World.