Two Political Cartooning-Related Stories Draw Attention

A pair of political cartoon-related news pieces of the let's say "very strong and blunt" variety popped up in wire stories today. Rob Rogers' cartoon for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette yesterday featuring a Klansman as commentary on the Trayvon Martin shooting received some "controversial cartoon" coverage even though the article in question doesn't really cite any specific outrage. Meanwhile, Daryl Cagle notes that Michael Ramirez made a speech calling President Obama a liar in a very plain language, an effort that included showing some cartoons that indict policies with which Ramirez has problems. I'm not sure that either one of those stories is noteworthy in and of itself -- I guess the Rogers one could get there in a hurry -- but the severity of the expression is interesting to me in that editorial cartoonists tend to reflect certain attitudes towards propriety in political discourse whether at the board or at the podium. One could argue that a connection to or even a disconnect from a certain tenor in the way people talk about politics is to that field's credit, or that either one of those things speaks poorly about the ability to hit with audiences right now.
 
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