So What Are Editorial Cartoonists Doing With The Ground Zero Mosque Story?

As always, Daryl Cagle provides the wonderful service of allowing cartooning and comics fans a chance to look at a single issue through a number of cartoonists' perspectives and also maybe glean some information about the state of that particular expression of cartoon art. It's a fascinating bunch of cartoons, and although I'll leave the bulk of the interpretation up to the individual reader, a few things leaped out at me: 1) relatively few cartoonists seem to be engaging the subject, which makes perfect sense -- if I could avoid doing one I would; 2) the only cartoonists with multiple takes on the subject were Jimmy Margulies, whose regional proximity makes that make sense, and Mike Lester, whose transformation over the last few years into maybe the most dependably strident conservative cartoonist in print would explain his attention to the subject; 3) no one's nailed the issue yet with that kind of alternative-perspective cartoon that is the medium's greatest strength, although Mike Luckovich's effort is admirable in that respect.
 
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