Secrets of the trade
It’s no family secret that cartoonists love to gig Uncle Sam’s Big Brother about the clandestine clan and their Keystone cop-ops. So reports of the byzantine national security apparatus and trillions (okay, tens of thousands) of pages of leaks on Afghanistan delivered a double-whammy of ammo to the doubters who deal in ink by the double-barrel. Matt Davies and I both did a number on double-talkers and double-dealers who can’t do the numbers. And Ed Stein’s Page 1 news flash was no boost to boots on the ground. I love Ed’s simple, powerful drawings. Wish I knew his secret. — Joel Pett
Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the Lexington Herald-Leader. His work also appears in USA Today.
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