About DonkeyHotey
Political cartoons, caricatures and illustrations created with Photoshop by DonkeyHotey.
DonkeyHotey art is most commonly found at the DonkeyHotey Flickr photostream where the images have received over one million views.
The art of DonkeyHotey is a combination of caricature, photo collage and photo manipulation. The resulting work can be categorized as caricature, cartoon, illustration and art depending on the intent.
On this blog, I have documented over 1,140 editorial uses of DonkeyHotey art on websites around the world including repeated uses on Esquire.com, Daily Kos, Forbes, Mother Jones, and dozens of others.
I am looking for a home base
I would like very much to work as part of an editorial team focused on producing digital content. One great benefit to me would be have access to a larger pool of images to use in my compositions. Now I restrict my selection of raw images to Creative Commons and public domain sources. Being on staff with a publishing entity would expand my creative options dramatically.
So far, I have posted over 1,100 images under Creative Commons license at Flickr. This has enabled publishers to find and publish my work. I have viewed this as a way to improve my work and to see what editors are looking for in artwork. I feel that I am ready to begin working full time for a publisher or to get involved at a digital startup or other project where my work would fill a need. If you are interested in working together please post a comment to this page.
About the posts on this blog
Most of the items in this blog are examples of writers and/or publishers using DonkeyHotey caricatures, cartoons and illustrations. The idea is to show visitors to this blog how DonkeyHotey images are being used by editors and writers across the Web. The examples have been discovered by various means. This effort is not an attempt to capture all uses of DonkeyHotey art. Links to these examples and the actual use of DonkeyHotey art in the content by the writers and publishers should not imply an endorsement of the content. In fact, I have not read most of these articles I link to completely. If I have linked to something you find objectionable please let me know. I am just trying to show how people are using my work as licensed under Creative Commons.
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Used your image here:
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/conlaw/2012/01/republican-candidates-lose-first-amendment-ballot-claim-in-virginia-on-laches.html
Thanks for letting me know
I love your work and use it on my blog Fair and Unbalanced, e.g., http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/frothy-mix-of-gop-candidates.html
http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/stress-testing-tim-geithner.html
Thank you!
Thanks kudos and for sharing the link.
Here’s the latest: http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-2013-budget-says-about-fight-for.html
Is this the best way to alert you that I’ve used your work?
This is fine. I post links every few days.
Thanks.
DH
Hi Lovechilde,
I think the reason I did not link to your post is that you were re-posting from another blog without adding commentary. My goal is to illustrate where writers and editors are choosing my art to illustrate their work. Does this make sense?
Makes perfect sense. Here’s another from today, although it is also a cross-post from another blog. http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/0000063-election.html
Great stuff.
Here’s one of my own. http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/you-really-want-to-have-culture-war.html
You are an inspiration, DonkeyHotey!
You do brilliant work. I used three of your illustrations today in my blog http://windupmyskirt.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/the-gop-from-one-canadians-perspective/
Thanks for letting me know.
Here’s the Tucson Sentinel placement: http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/021712_republican_bar_joke/the-gops-worst-enemy-its-candidates/
Looks good. Thanks for sharing the link.
Here are others posts over the last few months from my blog in which I’ve used your great work:
http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/from-nixon-to-newt-why-we-must-honor.html
http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/keep-your-distance-ron-paul-is-full.html
http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/gingrich-is-right-about-one-thing.html
http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/gop-in-nutshell.html
http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/mitt-romney-might-not-be-crazy-but-he.html
Thanks, I will be putting up new links next week.
One more thing. I just posted this on my blog as a way to show gratitude and attribution to you and other artists whose work I use: http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/p/fair-and-unbalanced-artwork.html
Latest:
http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/roosting-republican-chickens.html
One from last week: http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/go-crazy-for-change.html
This is perfect! http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/white-house-court.html
Thanks
Just posted at Fair and Unbalanced: http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/justice-scalias-weak-attempt-at.html
Hello! I run the blog Eclectablog.com (with my blogging partner LOLGOP). We use your incomparable CC images from time to time for our blog posts and I’d like to make a contribution. I don’t make any real money with my blog but I’ll do what I can. What’s the best way to drop some folding money into your tip jar?
I’d also be interested in writing up a piece about you and your magnificent art if you’d consider doing an interview.
I can be reached at eclectablog over at teh gmail with dots and comes and stuff.
Hi Electablog,
Wow, what a complimentary post! I appreciate the kind offer to contribute to a tip jar, but I am not set up to deal with that at this time. Regarding an article. Right now I am still basking in my pseudonymity, so I am also going to pass on the article.
Thanks,
DH
Just posted at Fair and Unbalanced: http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/mr-etch-sketch.html
Just posted at Fair and Unbalanced: http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/bend-over-america-scotus-oks-strip.html
Posted at: http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/conlaw/2012/04/cfp-supreme-court-review.html
Just posted: http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/no-frothy-mix-to-kick-around-anymore.html
Just posted: http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/supreme-court-matters.html
Used your image of Rick Scott on ConLaw Professors blog here: http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/conlaw/2012/04/floridas-mandatory-drug-testing-for-state-employees-enjoined.html
Just posted: http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/ten-things-to-know-about-cispa.html
I would like to find out about hiring you to create and image (maybe more) for a new project. I love your work. Meagermind is by far my favorite and the reason I contacted you. Keep it up!
Hi Mark,
You could make contact through Flickr Mail here and then we can exchange contact info. http://www.flickr.com/photos/donkeyhotey
Just posted: http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/getting-away-with-torture.html
Just posted: http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/facebook-ipo-unlike.html
Just posted: http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/wisconsin-post-mortem.html
Just posted: http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/darryl-issas-contemptible-actions.html
Just posted: http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/supreme-court-politics.html
Just posted: http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/affordable-care-act-survives.html
one more: http://fairandunbalancedblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/hail-to-chief-justice.html
May I make a caricature request? I’ve been looking for a good caricature of David Vitter, but haven’t found even a bad one. I would greatly appreciate it, and I promise to link it back to you.
He IS caricature worthy. I will work on that. Thanks for stopping by.
Hi there DH,
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Loving the artwork that you do and wanted to let you know that I’ve used one…
http://tiptoetotruth.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/obama-vs-romney-totalitarian-tango.html
Oddly enough, I mention Don Quixote in there somewhere so it was probably meant to be.
Cheers,
SIMON
Hi Simon, Thanks for letting me know.
I used your image on bentalksbaseball.com , another WordPress site. I believe I attributed it correctly based on your directions, let me know if not and ill fix it. Thanks!
I used this photo but experienced some difficulty. It seems this photo can be used as long as you were cited (and you were), but please inform me if you would like the picture to be removed from the below blog: http://yesterdaysshadow.wordpress.com/?p=332&preview=true thank you
What kind of difficulty did you have? You do need to link to the image you used and credit DonkeyHotey/Flickr, but that is all I ask. I put all those images up on Flickr for people to use. I am sorry you had difficulty.
the flkr url wouldnt work to upload the picture, so i used a screenshot. It was not a problem for me, but I wanted to double check that it was indeed creative commons material. thanks for letting me use it!
There are two ways to use the Flickr image in your site.
Example using the image you choose:
1.) Go to this page http://www.flickr.com/photos/donkeyhotey/7374923744/
2.) Click “Share”
3.) Select “Grab HTML code”
4.) Use the drop box to select a size for the image.
(here is where the steps fork)
5a.) Copy HTML Code and paste it into your page in the HTML mode
5b.) Copy the image SRC URL in the HTML code. In this example the SRC is http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8008/7374923744_bcb2393652_m.jpg
6b.) Use that SRC to add an image to your page.
NOTE: This link http://www.flickr.com/photos/donkeyhotey/7374923744/ is a link to the main page for that image. It is not a link to an image.
Hope that helps.
DH
DonkeyHotey I absolutely love your work, I was wondering if in your spare time you could take on an entire set request? …I’d absolutely love to see a set of as many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence as possible. At least the household names would be awesome to see. Washington, Hamilton, J. Adams, S. Adams, Madison, Franklin, Jefferson, Hancock. The one you did of Washington is incredible.
It sounds like your request is not time critical and does not include remuneration. I think it would be good to add those images to my collection some time when political news is less interesting.
Thanks,
DH
Love your work!
Thanks!
Hi! Just used your image Voting Sreen on my blog at http://poliblog.jonkman.ca/blogs/2013/01/28/e-voting-considered-harmful/. Thanx for licensing with CC!
You are welcome. Thanks for letting me know.
Used your image of Scalia here:
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/conlaw/2013/03/professor-scalia-on-racial-entitlement-then-and-now.html
Love your images – used one here: http://www.scoop.it/t/mapping-fine-wine-heritage