In a 24/7 news cycle, the political cartoonist lives on the verge of constant overload. Artist, news junkie, provocateur, the political cartoonist digests reams of newspaper column inches and hours of broadcast news reports in the daily quest for the angles that rankle, those choice twists of news that best lend themselves to visual interpretation.
The process is selective. The artists are skeptical, and sometimes even a little bit impish. Because the best political cartoons capture in the lines of an illustration all the emotion and attitude of a heated argument. And at a time of war, the onus on the artist who makes these two dimensional Op-Eds is that much greater. Pushing the public’s buttons. The fine lines and finer points of the best political cartoons.
Guests:
David Horsey, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Editorial Cartoonist for The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Steve Bell, Editorial Cartoonist for The Guardian Newspaper at London
Robert Ariail, Editorial Cartoonist for The State newspaper at South Carolina.