Missed It: Michael Cavna On Nate Beeler, Jeff Danziger Tucson Cartoons



After looking around the wider Internet for editorial cartoons that stood out from the pack in the recent, horrific shooting in Tucson, a couple of which I've already pulled out for mention, I settled on two that were the subject of multiple blog posts and articles: a cartoon showing a pile of bodies being best by vultures labeled as partisans by Nate Beeler; a more immediate to the tragedy cartoon of a man shooting from the middle of a teapot by Jeff Danziger. The Beeler cartoon touches on the issues of partisan reaction to the shooting and pushes the boundaries of what many people are willing to accept in terms of a visual depiction in a newspaper or on-line: even the nine-year-old shot and killed is clearly depicted in Beeler's art. The Danziger cartoon touches on the issue of partisan reaction by, well, opening itself up to accusations of being a strong, partisan reaction; it also touches on the issue of timeliness with editorial cartoons, in that it might be suggested that mounting evidence about the shooter pushes a tea party connection into the realm of political construction as opposed to evidential. It certainly is a hard image to find at this point.

Lucky for us all, Michael Cavna of the Washington Post not only thought those same cartoons worthy of mention but tracked down their artists and got them to speak on them in their own words. So if this kind of thing interests you at all, I suggest you go read his post.


 
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