Toon-Op: Haunting images

Everyone is spooked by those frightfully unfair, nasty, negative campaign ads. How dare someone take a tiny kernel of truth and grossly exaggerate it to make a political point? (OK, that’s pretty much the job description of an editorial cartoonist.) Signe Wilkinson outfits the trick-or-treater-in-chief in peripatetic pachyderm garb. Rob Rogers dresses up (and dresses down) the freak shows, frauds and faux leaders. And Steve Breen unmasks big money, pointing a bony finger at empty suits with deep pockets. Unlike those shadowy, ghostly, ghastly financiers, at least cartoonists have the guts to give out their names.

— Joel Pett

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