When Your Personal Take On A Story Isn’t The Running One

Taken at his word, kudos to cartoonist Phil Hands for apparently sticking to his personal perspective when making cartoons about the political turmoil in his home state rather than working with points of greater consensus in mind. No matter the result, in a world where people are likely reading some take on the issue involved simply by my posting this, that's a good thing.

"I know this cartoon won't make me very popular, but that's OK. I didn't become an editorial cartoonist to win a popularity contest. I became an editorial cartoonist so that I could use my modest drawing skills to express my political viewpoint."

Given today's partisan-soaked political battles, I imagine that Hands won't just have to experience negative reaction directed at this cartoon from its readership -- he's already been hammered by the first comments thread participants, including the accusation that this particular takes better secures the cartoonist's job -- he'll also get to read reactions from people who are made aware of it because of the slightly mournful tone of his mini-essay or the expectations-thwarting aspect of it, and then he'll further see it used by Internet sites and columnists in various media that will discuss the cartoon as the latest salvo in an abstract, unserious political/cultural war far too many people are fighting.
 
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