Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Only the size of cartoonists' egos. Nowadays political commentary, especially satirical commentary, is usually ink wasted. Eighty years ago that wasn't the case. At that time a political cartoonist could turn an election around. Before TV, before movies and radio, a drawing of a weasel with the Governor's name on his butt went a long way in a public's imagination. Our political power today is illusionary. A Johnny Carson monologue is today's real influence brokerage...
Charles Schulz said it once: you only have to be a halfway good artist and a halfway good writer to be a cartoonist. I know my limitations. I could never make it as a writer, and I could never make it as a fine artist. Thus the world of cartooning was waiting for me to come along. I have plenty of partial ability...
...Eating lots of broccoli. You know, it's not the weirdo cartoonist that warps. The real warped view is on TV every night. Sanitized reality. Our job is to unwarp as best we can by reflecting the truth back into your eyes. It's not warped that Opus ((the penguin)) gets a buttock implant. On the contrary, I think it's pretty trendy...
BEATEN by a piece of mail. In its act of sending fake draft notices to 500 undergraduate males, the Committee On Central America did more for political awareness in one week than I've done in three-and-a-half years as a cartoonist...
...began my journalism career as a reporter, not as a cartoonist. But when I arrived at The Crimson in 1985, no one was using a visual medium to critique Harvard issues, and I stepped in. I am proud of some of the 343 cartoons I have drawn; I am more proud that I kept addressing the issues on a daily basis...