It’s the stupid economy

News flash! Star fish hits water pipe! Mail threatened with ax! Female spawns octet! No matter what the top story, recession-obsessed cartoonists showed us the money. Tom Toles turned Fleet Street gotcha into Wall Street gold. Signe Wilkinson welcomed relief from unwelcome correspondence. And John Trever stimulated his fertile imagination, producing a bed full of dreadful projects. (Donkey dad produces plethora of porcine progeny!)

-- Joel Pett Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist of the Lexington Herald-Leader. His work also appears in USA Today.