Toon-Op
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Cartoonists are lauded for our ability to simplify, and we are dismissed for our oversimplifications.
Feb. 19, 2006
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Cartoonists aimed double-barreled ink cartridges last week at Washington’s twin Topic A’s: Alito and Abramoff.
Jan. 15, 2006
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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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In editorial cartooning, as my colleague Steve Kelley of the New Orleans Times-Picayune says, art often irritates life.
Dec. 4, 2005
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Sometimes cartoonists go with the pack of our pen-pals, and sometimes we stick our pencil-necks out.
Nov. 27, 2005
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As brackish floodwaters are pumped back into Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain, what’s left behind is pretty nasty.
Sept. 25, 2005
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The humorist’s mantra is that tragedy plus time equals comedy.
Sept. 4, 2005
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On any given day, cartoonists have a choice: They can take potshots at a target of opportunity such as televangelist Pat Robertson, who put himself in the cross-hairs when he advocated the assassination of Venezuela’s leader, or they can pen a picture truly worth the proverbial 1,000 words.
Aug. 28, 2005
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Cartoonists had a 1,600-acre field day as President Bush vacationed last week at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.
Aug. 21, 2005
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Baltimore Oriole slugger Rafael Palmeiro served up a steroid-enhanced scandal-ball, and cartoonists blasted it out of the park.
Aug. 14, 2005
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Editorial cartoonists can make a federal case out of anything.
July 10, 2005
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If you earn your daily bread feasting on the news, you eat what you’re served.
June 26, 2005
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Reporters don’t like to admit it, but most readers don’t notice bylines.
June 19, 2005
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Cartoons about the high price of gas. Cartoons about U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
June 5, 2005
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Life may be fleeting, but the debate over it runs in eternal media circles.
May 29, 2005
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When cartoonists are asked about censorship — or, as our supervisors call it, “editing” — one of our answers is invariably about taste.
May 22, 2005
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The natural habitat for editorial cartoonists is a gloomy forest of bleak news, which we share with an ever-evolving population of invasive and evasive species: kudzu-like deficits, reptilian public servants, creepy-crawly world leaders and all manner of bottom-line feeders.
May 8, 2005
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When editorial cartoonists consider John Bolton, President Bush’s nominee as ambassador to the United Nations, animal instinct takes over.
April 24, 2005
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The editorial cartoons that immediately followed the death of Pope John Paul II were predictably, and appropriately, solemn.
April 17, 2005
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Cartoonists live to demean sacred institutions, so it should surprise nobody that we privately snipe at the growing number of journalism awards, even as we covet them.
April 10, 2005
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The all-Jacko-yakko channels make this year’s Trial of the Century seem like a must-draw for editorial cartoonists.
April 3, 2005
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Sometimes the news begs to be lampooned in cartoon. Not this week. J.D.
March 27, 2005
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The daily search for a cartoon topic is something like filling out your March Madness pool.
March 20, 2005
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Report the story, don’t become the story. So says Journalism 101. But not Journalism 2005.
Feb. 27, 2005
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Cartoonists from across the political spectrum greeted the new Democratic Party chairman as if he were Dr.
Feb. 20, 2005
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Even without a tinker-proof, state-of-the-art computerized voting process, like, say, Florida’s, Iraq’s election had its own digital aspect.
Feb. 13, 2005
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Ah, awards time, the Golden Globe the People’s Choice the Oscar!
Feb. 6, 2005
