Left Speechless
Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist of the Lexington Herald-Leader. His work also appears in USA Today. E-mail: jpett@herald-leader.com.
A brief word about nearly wordless cartoons: Although they are often among our most powerful and memorable images, they’re also our most ambiguous. More illustration than opinion, they are worth a different thousand words to thousands of different readers. After all has been said and drawn, we wind up the campaign with these stark images.