http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/07/07/remembering-jesse-helms-through-marlettes-work/ The source for industry news for the professional cartoonist Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:54:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/07/07/remembering-jesse-helms-through-marlettes-work/#comment-75056 KRANKY (JOE RANK) Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:00:41 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/07/07/remembering-jesse-helms-through-marlettes-work/#comment-75056 I LOVED Marlette's caricature. It was impossible to over-exagerate the physical ugliness of the man. The venal nature of the unreconstructed racist could not be adequately captured by even the most talented of editorial cartoonists. Perhaps Goya or Bosch. It was fun to see "Kudzu" and guess which blowhard poohbah was getting the business from DM. I LOVED Marlette’s caricature. It was impossible to over-exagerate the physical ugliness of the man. The venal nature of the unreconstructed racist could not be adequately captured by even the most talented of editorial cartoonists. Perhaps Goya or Bosch.
It was fun to see “Kudzu” and guess which blowhard poohbah was getting the business from DM.

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