Go, Read: Cagle on V-Tech Cartoons

Daryl Cagle has an essay out there about making editorial cartoons in the aftermath of things like the Virginia Tech shootings last week. He expresses sympathy for the editorial cartoonists on a daily deadline, suggests that sometimes the best avenue is to say nothing at all, and in what I found the most interesting part of his article talks about how a story that develops can lead into new topics for exploration.

In related news, I wondered two things in terms of comics when the Virginia Tech story kept developing. One was when comics would be brought into the pop culture influence discussion, which happened Thursday. The second is when someone would pick up on an international artist's inevitably severe treatment of the issue, and that's happened now, too. I'd like to lay claim to the hat trick and say I predicted the heavy analysis of editorial cartoon response, but that sort of surprised me.
 
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