Video: Adam Zyglis talks editorial cartooning in 2012
CNN’s Karin Caifa talks to Buffalo News editorial cartoonist Adam Zyglis about editorial cartooning in 2012.
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Interviewed: Lalo Alcaraz as cartoonist and activist
VOXXI interviews editorial cartoonist, comic strip creator (La Cucaracha) and activist Lalo Alcaraz about using his cartooning and as an activist. Q: You do a lot of satire with political issues. Tell me about some of the themes you use throughout your cartoons and why you use those specific subjects? A: My parents are immigrants […]
Phil Hands opines on donkeys and elephants
The debate comes up every now and then about the utility of editorial cartoonists continued use caricatures of elephants and donkeys to represent the two major political parties. But I will continue to draw elephants and donkeys. I’m proud of them. They are symbols that were developed by editorial cartoonists, and then co-opted by the […]
Editorial cartooning in a hyper-partisanship climate
Excellent retrospection by Ed Stein regarding the challenges of editorial cartooning in our hyper-partisanship climate. Editorial cartooning is a funny business (no pun intended). The best cartoons are the strongest, most aggressive, least ambiguous ones. We want to say things as pointedly as possible, yet many of us are extremely uncomfortable with what has become […]