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To keep things fair and balanced.

― Prude (Prude), Saturday, 8 May 2004 04:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Can we institute a "no Rall/Tomorrow" rule just to make things more varied?

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:25 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.startribune.com/stonline/images/news3/sack050704.l.jpg

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:28 (nineteen years ago) link

(OK, that's nowhere near my favorite, but I figured I'd rep a local first)

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:30 (nineteen years ago) link

http://cagle.slate.msn.com/working/040329/kirk.jpg

aw hell no

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:36 (nineteen years ago) link

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/steve_bell/2004/05/06/bell512.jpg

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:46 (nineteen years ago) link

NAKED BUSH WITH ORANGUTANG FEET?

I am not sleeping tonight.

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:55 (nineteen years ago) link

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/steve_bell/2004/03/19/bell512.jpg

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:03 (nineteen years ago) link

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/martin_rowson/2004/04/26/rowson512.jpg

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I kinda think Tom Toles was at his peak in the Reagan years -- his Reagan was kind of blissfully evil, in a cuddly way. But he's still pretty good. (I mostly like this one for the Tommy reference, I admit.)

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/tt/2004/tt040506.gif

― spittle (spittle), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:07 (nineteen years ago) link

There's often far too much text in Us editorial cartoons.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:08 (nineteen years ago) link

The last one is the only good one. Those are others range from bad to worse.

I'd pick some of the early Doonesbury strips, but they don't seem to be online anymore.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:12 (nineteen years ago) link

My favorite anti-conservative cartoon ever might be Walt Kelly's illustrated version of the trial scene from "Alice in Wonderland," starring the cast of Pogo. Pogo -- with uncharacteristic blonde curls -- is Alice, and Simple J. Malarkey -- Kelly's McCarthy caricature -- is the King of Hearts. It's a perfect mockery of the HUAC hearings.

― spittle (spittle), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:28 (nineteen years ago) link

toles is still great (and so far the only one on this thread worth a damn)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:36 (nineteen years ago) link

One thing I'll give Toles is that his cartoons stand up outside the context of the day's news, but that's not the point of an editorial cartoon. They are mean to be ephemeral.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:39 (nineteen years ago) link

that's bullshit

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:45 (nineteen years ago) link

All newspaper writing is. It's todays news and tomorrows chip paper.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:47 (nineteen years ago) link

God ethan was right about how ugly these kind are. But Toles is good, Oliphant is great, and Feiffer is/was the best (although he wasn't limited to just anti-con editorials I guess).
You know that one where the last panel has the smarmy guy going "let us define your terms" and everyone else is like "YOU CAN'T WIN YOU CAN'T WIN"? That's totally my life sometimes.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:47 (nineteen years ago) link

No way Ed! My friend's parents had this book of editorial cartoons from all over the world from like '73 to '83 or something and I probably learned more about the actualities of politics and culture in that period from that collection than anything else I've ever been exposed to.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:49 (nineteen years ago) link

'first draft of history' ed

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:50 (nineteen years ago) link

thomas nast to thread

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Like for example Gerald Ford falling over was apparently the biggest event of the 1970's.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I swear half the cartoons were devoted to him tripping over objects with words related to then-current political issues superimposed upon them.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh and also (to a lesser extent) Jimmy Carter running away from rabbits labeled "Iran" or "fuel shortage" etc etc.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I have books of editorial cartoons too but I main. The cartoon have a date and a reminder of what was going on in the news that day. A Cartoonist drawing for history or even for the anthology is not doing his job. He should be drawing for the day and that day only.

Labeling things really gets my goat most of the time.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:57 (nineteen years ago) link

omg i forgot about carter's killer rabbit!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah Ed I guess my point was that drawing for that day and that day only is exactly what makes those cartoons so valuable as artifacts.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 8 May 2004 07:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Aw yeah, the killer rabbit. He was great.

I'm glad Toles came up, somehow I'd forgotten about him. He's definitely one of the better ones and one of the lifers at this point; I remember first reading his stuff back in 1984 or so. If I remember right he didn't spare Clinton much either, which is good.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 May 2004 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link

my favorite for this sorta thing is still tom tomorrow ... even though he's been banned from this thread. mr. tomorrow didn't spare clinton, either!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 8 May 2004 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link

five years pass...

http://wagist.com/images/political/education.jpg

― James Mitchell, Monday, 7 September 2009 09:28 (fourteen years ago) link

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