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Whoopee! Steve Sack Has a Substack!
Editorial cartoonist and 3D sculptor Steve Sack has set up a Substack called The Art of Sack.
Sez Steve:
Hello everyone! Welcome to the first edition of The Art of Sack. Each post pairs one of my Sack Classics — an editorial cartoon from my five decades in newspapers — with one of my goofy Fun Art projects. Serious satire meets unserious silliness.
Let’s play!…
And wait until you see the extra he has set up for paid subscribers!
Powhatan County Dems Post Then Delete Cartoon, Apologize
Thomas Stevenson at the Post Millennial reports on VIrginia Democrats posting a controversial cartoon by Joe Thibodeau:
The Powhatan County Democrats posted and then deleted a political cartoon depicting GOP gubernatorial candidate in Virginia Winsome Earle-Sears as what some people thought to be an “angry black woman” in Thursday’s debate with Democrat candidate Abigail Spanberger.
After backlash and reaction to the cartoon, the Powhatan Democrats deleted the post, then issued an apology on X, saying, “We reposted an online political cartoon that some people thought had racist overtones. That was certainly not our intent. We have deleted it out of respect to anyone who took it that way.”
Detour to the Financial Pages
We hope you enjoy our cartoonist Bob Rich’s latest witty take on the markets, economy, and investing!
Pakistani Minister Criticized For Posting Tex Avery Cartoon
Pakistan Today reports on Defence Minister playing cartoon during border tensions.
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif faced public criticism on Saturday after a repost from his verified account on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) showed a clip from a cartoon series, at a time when reports of clashes between Pakistani forces and Taliban militants surfaced from the border region.
The reposted video, originally shared by the account Cartoon Videos, featured a scene from the classic Tom and Jerry series. The post drew attention when a defence analysis account, Clash Report, highlighted the timing of the minister’s activity, noting, “Meanwhile Pakistan’s defence minister shares a cartoon video on his account while Pakistani forces clash with Taliban.”
While the story got the right studio, MGM, it is not a Tom and Jerry cartoon, rather it is the Spike and Blackie short “The Counterfeit Cat” as directed by the famed Tex Avery from 1949.
The development has renewed debate on the social media conduct of public officials.
That’s not a problem in the USA.
A Brief History of Caricature
For Meer Humberto Aguirre relates some history and highlights of political caricature.
From the cave paintings of Altamira to The Yellow Kid and from the voodoo doll to modern political cartoons, all are manifestations of this magical quality of the image. That is why a politician with low self-esteem feels offended by a caricature of himself appearing in a newspaper; that is why you keep in your wallet the picture of your beloved. The iconic image is the materialization of an absence; it is a recomposition of matter impregnated with the same affective and spiritual vibrations as its real counterpart.
In La Caricature, by the way, one of the most famous sequences in the history of political caricature took place. This was a magazine launched in Paris in 1830, anti-monarchist, where, as we have said, artists of the stature of Daumier collaborated. In it the institutional power was spoliated. The king, Louis-Philippe I, was the constant target of his mockery, which often brought Philipon to court. One day, in the middle of an audience, and knowing that he had lost, he didactically used his drawings to illustrate that the king was easily caricatured and that caricaturists were not to blame, then Philipon, in full view of everyone, transformed the king into a pear (it is worth mentioning that poire, pear, in French colloquially means “fool,” so the metaphor went beyond the mere drawing).
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