By marking the day now instead of tomorrow, I’m likely going to miss quite a few Memorial Day cartoons, but I like the simplicity of Bennett’s political statement. Bennett’s minimalist cartoon reminds us of why we have Memorial Day while, by placing the War Powers Act amid the graves, he mourns the rule of law […]
In “No Laughing Matter?” parts One and Two we see governments repressing cartoons that humiliate their particular political idealism and institutions crumbling under pressure to not publish satire of political, ideological, or religious stripes. (Most extreme is the Charlie Hebdo massacre.)The practice of suppressing cartoons goes back hundreds of years – I was about to […]