Drawing a line on terror
After the July 7 London subway and bus bombings, we aimed to be somber, angry and chilling, but our pens too often hit the banal and hackneyed. Amid the mourning lions of Trafalgar Square and Twin Towers of London was clever work linking London’s happy Olympic news of 7/6 to the 7/7 attacks, and some perspective-providing reminders about past IRA terror and the World War II Blitz.
Several cartoonists jumped the turnstile to tap the double meaning of underground terror and to note that weapons of mass transit aren’t going anywhere soon.
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