The Guardian Celebrates 30 Years Of Steve Bell It's nice to see a newspaper get behind its political cartoonist as the special, unique offering that most cartoonist are or can be for such publications. That sounds wholly ridiculous in a certain sense, at least until you encounter the newspapers out there that seem to treat their cartoonist as some sort of odd extravagance, a strange tie the paper is forced to slip around their necks a few days a week. The Guardian celebrates 30 years of Steve Bell cartoons with a personal reminiscence from the cartoonist, a slideshow linked into a Cartoon Museum exhibit and testimony from people featured/savaged in Bell cartoons. The museum video is part of a "sketchbook series" you can access here.
It's nice to see a newspaper get behind its political cartoonist as the special, unique offering that most cartoonist are or can be for such publications. That sounds wholly ridiculous in a certain sense, at least until you encounter the newspapers out there that seem to treat their cartoonist as some sort of odd extravagance, a strange tie the paper is forced to slip around their necks a few days a week. The Guardian celebrates 30 years of Steve Bell cartoons with 
