Toon-Op by Joel Pett
The week’s best editorial cartoons handpicked and henpecked by Joel Pett, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Lexington Herald-Leader.
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Editorial cartoonists on the Wall Street meltdown.
Sept. 28, 2008
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Editorial cartoonists explore the campaign’s less human side.
Sept. 21, 2008
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More editorial cartoons focusing on the GOP vice presidential pick.
Sept. 14, 2008
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Editorial cartoonists on the hockey mom turned would-be VP.
Sept. 7, 2008
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Editorial cartoonists¡¦ take on the Democrats¡¦ and Republican¡¦s big parties.
Aug. 31, 2008
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Americans aren’t the only cartoonists satirizing the Beijing Olympics.
Aug. 24, 2008
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Cartoonists on the less-than-triumphant qualities of the Beijing Olympics.
Aug. 17, 2008
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Cartoonists get serious in the final stretch of the presidential campaign.
Aug. 10, 2008
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Cartoonists stop pulling their punches on the would-be president.
June 29, 2008
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Cartoonists on Scott McClellan, Clinton’s campaign and oil anxieties.
June 1, 2008
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Cartoonists on the California court’s gay marriage decision.
May 25, 2008
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Good cartoons tend to be partisan. Sometimes, there are exceptions.
May 18, 2008
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Cartoonists on the polygamous Mormon sect and the McCain-Bush relationship.
April 27, 2008
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Cartoonists abandon the cerebral realms for a more satisfying punchline.
March 30, 2008
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Some cartoonists focused on wars that didn’t involve Clinton and Obama.
March 9, 2008
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John Sherffius wins the first big honor of the cartoonists’ award season.
Feb. 24, 2008
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Last year, editorial cartoonists eulogized civil rights icon Rosa Parks, television veterans Johnny Carson and Peter Jennings, Vietnam War antagonists Gen.
Jan. 1, 2006
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‘Tis the season to fall back on old issues; some cartoonists do it better than others.
Nov. 25, 2007
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Cartoonists have always had an interesting relationship with Hollywood writers.
Nov. 11, 2007
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Gen. Petraeus’ testimony and the president’s speech were plenty for cartoonists.
Sept. 16, 2007
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A cartoonist takes on a wannabe president -- and gets hauled to court.
July 15, 2007
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Forget CIA misdeeds, veep-dark secrets, toothpaste made in China, the surge, evil-doers, amnesty for illegal immigrants and the Supreme Court, for the moment.
July 1, 2007
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The situation in the Mideast is bleak and polarized; so are cartoonists.
June 24, 2007
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The courts protect candidates’ right to raise money, and cartoonists’ right to make fun of them.
April 8, 2007
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Cancer is a touchy subject, so how did cartoonists handle Tony Snow and Elizabeth Edwards?
April 1, 2007
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Cartoonists take on the four-year anniversary of the Iraq war.
March 25, 2007
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You know Cabinet members are in deep when cartoonists draw them.
March 18, 2007
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The best cartoonists say so much with a simple image.
March 11, 2007
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Looking outside mainstream media for art that isn’t Anna Nicole Smith.
Feb. 18, 2007
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Cartoonists give Bush a break -- by going after the vice president.
Feb. 11, 2007
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A look at a few cartoonists who defend the president’s policies.
Feb. 4, 2007
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Cartoonists look beyond just the president’s State of the Union for their satire.
Jan. 28, 2007
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Capital punishment becomes a satirical tool after Hussein’s execution.
Jan. 21, 2007
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Cartoonists heap their discontent on Bush for his ‘new’ Iraq policy.
Jan. 14, 2007
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Cartoonists take a break from the daily grind and stretch their funny bones.
Aug. 27, 2006
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Each airport incident gives cartoonists ideological ammunition.
Aug. 20, 2006
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Cartoonists in Europe and the Middle East take sides on the Israel-Lebanon conflict.
Aug. 13, 2006
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In the Beirut blast zone and among Malibu’s most wanted, a world at war was on cartoonists’ minds.
Aug. 6, 2006
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Some American cartoonists took Bush’s anti-media lure and ran with it, while some foreign cartoonists took a different line.
July 16, 2006
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Editorial cartoonists issued dissenting opinions on the just-ended Supreme Court term.
July 9, 2006
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Editorial cartoonists honor the flag — and their freedom to abuse it.
July 2, 2006
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Cartoons can be hilarious, but they can also show the bleak side of the news.
June 11, 2006
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Editorial cartoonists just can’t stop drawing Democrats and Republicans.
June 4, 2006
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Cartoonists retouched Mona Lisa’s signature smirk in these ‘Da Vinci Code’ sendups.
May 28, 2006
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Cartoonists drew lines (also walls, wires, tunnels and towers) in the Southwest sand.
May 21, 2006
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Editorial cartoonists spy on Bush’s nominee for CIA chief.
May 14, 2006
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How did foreign cartoonists come to grips with the week’s top U.S. topics: illegal immigration, Iranian nukes and high gas prices?
May 7, 2006
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Editorial cartoons on high gas prices can be crude or refined.
April 30, 2006
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Winner Mike Luckovich had a great year even if the Pulitzer-picking process didn’t.
April 23, 2006
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Editorial cartoonists face the gods’ wrath when they don’t blaspheme.
April 16, 2006
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Editorial cartoonists’ drew curveballs in baseball’s opening week.
April 9, 2006
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How cartoonists drew the president’s face-saving speech tour.
March 26, 2006