Cartoonists Yearn for New Target after Years of Bush
I have known several editorial cartoonists in my time, including Pulitzer Prize winner Clay Bennett and the formidable Jeff Danziger. And if I've learned anything from hanging out with these folks, it's that they love finding new targets.
Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, good cartoonists love them all and can't wait for them to goof up -- or to do, wear or say something even remotely ridiculous.
Today on Morning Edition, John Ydstie reported on his trip to an exhibit at American University in Washington, D.C., which features cartoons of the Bush administration. (Seeing some of these cartoons reminds me why I would never want to be president.) But after more than six years of satirizing this administration, Rex Babin of The Sacramento Bee and freelancer Mikhaela Reid, for instance, are both ready for new targets.
Babin says he relishes the thought of a new Al Gore campaign -- he finds all that extra weight fun to draw. Reid thinks Hillary Clinton would be a cartoonist's delight.
Personally, I like the idea of Clinton too -- but just because you'd get Bill Clinton as well. As the former president once said, it's a two-for-one deal.
And if reading this makes you want to see some cartoons, head to the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists' site. Each day, it gives a large selection of what its members have been drawing. It's one of the first places I go every morning when I jump online.
5:07 PM ET | 07- 9-2007 | permalink
