Best Pictures? Hardly

Ah, awards time, the Golden Globe … the People’s Choice … the Oscar! Cartoonists are always eager to make mundane topics fascinating, so why not use the big-screen imagery Americans line up to see? Why not roll out the red carpet to take a punch at red ink? Is it such a flight of fancy to cast a president who went to war over biological weapons as a bacteriophobe aviator?

Maybe our passionate national divide is illustrated just as vividly by Mel versus Moore as by Red versus Blue. And if sex sells cinematically, why not satirically? Alfred Kinsey would surely have had something to say about same-sex unions.

Borrowing from blockbusters may be an opinion-mongering staple, a trick of the tirades, but it’s probably not our strongest work. Come our season of self-congratulation, don’t expect cartoons from this genre to win. Ah, awards time…. the Reuben…. the Herblock…. the Pulitzer!