The national media recognized Marshall Ramsey, today for a cartoon he drew of President George H. W. Bush after he passed away last night. Mississippi's Cartoonist Laureate appeared on Fox and Friends this morning while CNN showed the cartoon.
Oddly enough, Mr. Ramsey almost missed the Fox invite:
I went to bed at three. Pip got me up at six because she has to go to outside. So I checked my email to find an invitation to be on Fox and Friends in a few minutes.
I know. I never saw it coming either.
I’m on at 6:40.
The Washington ____ reported on Mr. Ramsey's poignant cartoon today as well:
Marshall Ramsey was awakened by his wife late Friday night with the news: President George H.W. Bush had just died. Right away, Ramsey thought back to his idea.
When former first lady Barbara Bush died in April, Ramsey — the editorial cartoonist for the Mississippi Clarion Ledger — created a memorial illustration that went viral. Days later, when her husband of 73 years became ill, Ramsey began thinking about a companion cartoon to salute the former president.“But he’s tough as nails and bounced back,” Ramsey tells The Washington Post’s Comic Riffs, “so I just filed the idea away.”Until Friday night, when Ramsey learned the 41st president had died at age 94, according to Bush spokesman Jim McGrath.“I drew it as quickly as I could and then posted” it on social media, Ramsey says of the tribute. “It seems like I’ve [drawn] so many obituary cartoons this year — 2018 has been cruel. But since the last one was so well-received by the Bush family and by parents who had lost children, I wanted to make sure this one was right.”This one was indeed right, based on swift public embrace of the work, which readers called “beautiful” and “touching.”....
Ramsey said about his cartoon honoring George H.W. Bush: “I wanted to incorporate his service to our country because, love or hate him, he served our country in about every capacity.” Ramsey noted he had recently flown in a TBM Avenger, so the experience informed the artwork..... Rest of article.
Well done, Mr. Ramsey, well done.
25 comments:
Marshall is certainly a Point of Light for MS. And if we had Reagan and Bush running the country now, we'd be all about America instead of Democrats vs. Republicans.
A wonderful goodbye to a RINO from a fellow Democrat.
@4:06 What a bitter and twisted person you are. I doubt I know you and I know I didn’t know President Bush. And I don’t know Marshall. But I would bet you ain’t half the person that Marshall is or Bush was.
If GHWB was a RINO, what's the Litmus test for a Republican today.
Anybody that can call GHWB a RINO is an absolive idiot. Take your sorry ass back to your cave, more than likely located in the Free State of Jones.
What the hell is an absolive idiot?
Folks, let’s put the politics aside just for a moment. A father/grandfather/great grandfather dies, a family mourns, a wonderfully talented Mississippi artist pays moving tribute to this patriarch, who was also a veteran who served our country. Nothing else matters other than those facts.
Most Excellent, Mr. Ramsey. You are a treasure.
As for all you jack-wagons who seem to insist on turning a commentary on a thoughtful, touching honorary to the Bush family into a political this-or-that....why don't you, for once, just SHTF up and admire the sentiment.
Geez, what has happened to us....
Yeah, I know what opinions are like...everybody has one. Doesn't mean it has to be heard. Even mine. Sorry.
The readers of this blog will find ANYTHING to argue about, disagree over, or be rude about. I’m not sure why I even read this (other than the few chuckles I get). Anyway, did anyone hear Dave Ramsey (Marshal’s cousin) talk about him on the radio this week? He was very complimentary of Marshal.
I think Ben Garrison did it better, as usual. He invoked the image of the Yale occult Skull and Bones society that 41 and 43 were both members. Only God can judge if members of occult secret societies qualify for entry to his domain.
https://grrrgraphics.com/death-of-41/
A typo. Try absolute
7:45 PM, it’s a word whose meaning is only known by the smartest of the smart elites
Hey, we in Jones County also think 4:06 is a jerk.
Even though he is a Democrat, Marshall does a good job.
I recall his Zig Ziglar tribute.
4:06 is the worst of us just complaining about the best of us because he is so miserable being a nobody that anybody would admire.
9:47: Ben Garrison is a loon. Good for nothing more than a good laugh at his intellectual vapidity.
@10:39
Nice attack taken right out of the Saul Alinsky playbook. Attack the messenger and ignore the message. Do you deny that the Bush presidents were members of the Skull and Bones society at Yale? They didn't deny it.
So, Ramsey got lucky and Kingfish chooses to bow and kiss his ass. Ramsey is no treasure and he sure as hell is no cartoonist laureate, which is a fictitious title pulled out of Kingfish's ah, hat.
He's a democrat loon peckerhead who occasionally draws an interesting and timely cartoon. The last one I remember was Fordice threatening to take Molpus to the woodshed.
Not 10:39, but what the hell does being a member of the Skull & Bones society at Yale have to do with the price of eggs?
As to the idiotic comment above, you could expand it to "only God can judge ____________". Fill in the blank. Do you happen to know of anything about the S&B society? Is it based on anything other than what you might have read on some internet posting by someone else that doesn't know a damn thing about it?
Try all the social fraternities on all college campuses - they all have their own "secret societies" although they don't have the same level of successful alumni as S&B. Do you think they are condemned as well? Or is it that just just can't stand a successful businessman who turnout to be a successful public servant as well. More importantly, he was a great "former" public servant, not trying to profit off his service when he went home, just tried to enjoy life and help others.
Trump will never join Bush.
Shouldn't you be complaining about blacks shopping in Madison County?
Interesting, from the publically available voter info Ramsey has been a pretty solid R voter.
Marshal Ramsey is a brilliant and towering talent of unrecognized and unrequited genius. In a single simply drawn cartoon he can elicit tremendous empathy, pain, joy, pride and a host of other emotions that almost always seem to bring us together regardless of where we place ourselves in the present political landscape. Today I thank God for former President Bush and the life of service he led and provided to this great Nation and to God for making a man like Marshal Ramsey who has brought such joy to not only Mississippians, not only the nation, but the entire world.
Marshall's talent continues to amaze.
What is an “unrequited genius”?
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