Toons: Persian Perversion, Vulture Parasite, The Politics of Envy and More. - 1/13/12

[ellisonz]

By Kirk Walters, Toledo Blade - 1/13/2012


By Rick McKee, The Augusta Chronicle - 1/13/2012


By Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune - 1/13/2012


By Jimmy Margulies, The Record of Hackensack, NJ - 1/13/2012


By Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News - 1/13/2012


By Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/13/2012


By John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune - 1/13/2012


By Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com - 1/13/2012


By Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News - 1/13/2012


By Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons - 1/13/2012


By J.D. Crowe, Mobile Register - 1/13/2012


By Paul Zanetti, Australia - 1/13/2012


By Christo Komarnitski, Bulgaria - 1/13/2012


By Stuart Carlson, January 13, 2012


By Ted Rall, January 13, 2012


By Ben Sargent, January 13, 2012


By Tom Toles, January 13, 2012


By Don Wright, January 12, 2012


By Jim Morin, January 15, 2012

Note: All previous editions can be found in my journal. Have a good weekend!

[Ruby the Liberal]

1. I'm torn. Occupy SC is a hoot

but the MLK one is truly poignant.

[ellisonz]

2. Believe it or not...

The Newt one is from a generally more conservative cartoonist in a conservative paper...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta_Chronicle - I like his style though sometimes - it's very acerbic and it kinda punches through the din. He cuts both ways.

The MLK one is good.

I thought the best of the batch was the GOP Club one with the fat Newt and the protestors. Kinda captured the zeitgeist of the "split" in the GOP.

Have a good weekend Ruby!

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. You too Zach!

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. Ask this question in the computer forum

you might get the help you need

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1097

[ellisonz]

8. Oh noes! Ruby is being spammed!

BTW - Who are the two knuckleheads voting to not hide this?

[cbrer]

3. Brilliant

Thank you for these. Brilliant cartoonists all.

[pnorman]

7. I'm getting to really like this artist!

[ellisonz]

9. Ben Sargent

Ben Sargent (born November 26, 1948) is an American editorial cartoonist. He began drawing editorial cartoons for the Austin American-Statesman in 1974 and retired in 2009.[1] His cartoons are also distributed nationally by Universal Press Syndicate.

He was born in Amarillo, Texas, into a newspaper family. He learned the printing trade from age twelve and started working for the local daily as a proof runner at fourteen. He attended Amarillo College and received a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1970.

Sargent won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1982. He has also received awards from Women in Communications, Inc., Common Cause of Texas, and Cox Newspapers.

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In a profile published in the January 2005 issue of The Good Life magazine, Sargent stated, "As a newspaper journalist, you're professionally obligated to be fair, accurate, complete and balanced. But there are two pages in the back of the paper where we're obligated to be fair, accurate and complete—but we don't have to be 'balanced.' I'm not a pollster. To me, you're obligated as an opinion journalist to express your views no matter what the politics of the day. If you don't, then people will say, 'Why should I read what this guy's saying? He doesn't even know where he stands?' That makes your position as an opinion journalist kind of useless."

2 more small paragraphs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Sargent

[eppur_se_muova]

10. some history behind the Zyglis toon ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join,_or_Die

[ellisonz]

11. Woah...

I didn't realize it was from 1754!