Go, Read: Two Articles On Situational Cartooning At New Yorker

* Bob Mankoff wonders after the consequences of the recent Supreme Court about the Defense Of Marriage Act by talking to Bill Haefeli, who has been doing cartoons on the subject of gay marriage for years. That's not really a cartooning about the context in which one cartoons, but becomes one if you look at it in terms of how issues roll out over years and how cartoonists engage those issues as time and attitudes change. I always thought that would be a difficult part of being an editorial cartoonist: how your own attitudes change as the country changes beneath you. Consumers of entertainment, including political entertainment, are harsh on those they feel have changed their minds. Certainly Haefeli hasn't, though.

* a more traditional article on the problems facing cartoonist in certain situations is this blog post from Jonathan Guyer about a subject close to his heart: Egyptian editorial cartooning, specifically how political cartoonists have engaged with the current post-Arab Spring president despite there being laws on the books that would seemingly hinder or frustrate unfettered expression.
 
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