Friday Nite Lites: Binders, Cave Walls and the Importance of Editorial Cartoons
Posted: October 19, 2012 Filed under: 2012 presidential campaign, abortion rights, education, misogyny, Mitt Romney, open thread, Political and Editorial Cartoons, U.S. Politics, US & Canada, Violence against women, War on Women, Women's Rights | Tags: art, Editorials, History 28 Comments »
Via Kathy on my Facebook page…Scrolls full of women….love it!
Time again for those wonderful political editorial cartoons. First I want to bring you this essay by Mr. Fish. I’ve no doubt that many of you know my fondness for editorial cartoons. I think they are one of the most essential forms of expression and feel sure that you will agree they are vital in times like these. So please read this essay in full. It is a long read but worth it.
Mr. Fish: Drawing Conclusions: The Editorial Cartoon – Truthdig
Mr. Fish is the curator of “Drawing Conclusions,” an exhibit exploring the history of editorial cartooning on display at USC Annenberg’s Second Floor Gallery and Room 207 from Oct. 24 to May 13, 2013. It is co-sponsored by The Future of Journalism Foundation, a project of Community Partners.
I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn’t come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.
–Paul Conrad, editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles TimesStop them damned pictures! I don’t care so much what the papers say about me. My constituents don’t know how to read, but they can’t help seeing them damned pictures!
–William “Boss” Tweed, discredited New York politician responding to editorial cartoons by Thomas NastArt is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.
–Pablo PicassoFor reasons that may have to do only with the perfunctory indifference that comes with incuriosity, there has never been a precise understanding by the dominant culture of what an editorial cartoonist is. Having been inexorably linked to journalism because their work has traditionally been published in daily newspapers, the value and professional integrity of editorial cartoonists have been unfairly forced to rise and fall with the health of the Fourth Estate.
Thus, with the steady disintegration of the print media and the pandemic elimination of staff cartoonist positions from periodicals everywhere, the question has become: Without an industry to sustain the definition of what an editorial cartoonist has come to mean to the public mind, what will happen to those men and women who draw pictures containing a political or social message? When circumstances in a society shift dramatically enough to make extinct a profession so narrowly defined by myopic and mainstream ideas, does this mean the end of the activity previously exercised within that profession, or does it merely demand a reconfiguration of consciousness allowing for the emergence of a more enlightened understanding of what the editorial cartoonist’s job is and where it might best find support, institutional or otherwise? In other words, is cartooning a vocation or a calling?
It’s arguable that editorial cartooning, in one form or another, has been with us ever since, in the words of Mark Twain, God made the mistake of preserving sin by not forbidding Eve to devour the snake, an act of bureaucratic mismanagement so fundamentally destructive that our sense of moral self-determinism has never been the same. Nor has our belief in the absolute wisdom of our authority figures.
But editorial cartooning has been around even longer than that. In fact, it is not beyond comprehension that we have never been without it, particularly if we are to define the word “editorial” as the exposition of a personal opinion and “cartooning” merely as the rendering of that opinion in pictorial form. Given such a description, we come to find that the earliest practitioners of the art form were editorializing on the walls of limestone caves in the south of France some 33,000 years ago, eons before the Bible places the events that took place in the Garden of Eden. Of even greater significance is how these cave drawings predate the invention of the written word by the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia by 30,000 years, proof that when it comes to the mode of communication upon which human beings have historically most relied, it is the visual depiction of our life’s experiences, rather than phonetic symbols arranged on a straight line, that have proven themselves most deeply meaningful.
That is just the first few paragraphs. Read the rest at the link above.
Now on with the show.
Let’s start with some cartoons on Malala Yousafzia, the Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban early last week.
Cagle Post – Political Cartoons & Commentary – » Afghan Women
Cagle Post – Political Cartoons & Commentary – » Malala Yousafzai
Cagle Post – Political Cartoons & Commentary – » Malalas Courage
Cagle Post – Political Cartoons & Commentary – » And a Child Shall Lead Them
Cagle Post – Political Cartoons & Commentary – » CANADA Bullies
Now for some cartoons on Romney, including his binders full of women:
Talk about monsters in your closet, or at your front door: AAEC – Political Cartoon by Gustavo Rodriguez, El Nuevo Herald – 10/17/2012
From my favorite cartoonist: 10/21 Mike Luckovich cartoon: Halloween candy | Mike Luckovich
A woman’s place is in the binder – Political Cartoon by J.D. Crowe, Mobile Register – 10/19/2012
AAEC – Political Cartoon by John Cole, Scranton Times/Tribune – 10/19/2012
Now a few on the debates:
Cagle Post – Political Cartoons & Commentary – » VP Debate: Smile over substance
AAEC – Political Cartoon by Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette – 10/19/2012
BB sent me this next one, from Pat Bagley at the Salt Lake Tribune:
A few on Paul Ryan, and the Right Wing:
AAEC – Political Cartoon by Matt Bors, Universal Press Syndicate – 10/17/2012
Cagle Post – Political Cartoons & Commentary – » 850 Calorie School Lunch
(I do have to say, this cut in school lunch should bring healthier food, but they should not cut the portions.)
AAEC – Political Cartoon by David Horsey, Los Angeles Times – 10/19/2012
And with that Trolling Ratfucker…I end this post!
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Hope you all have a wonderful evening!
Love all the cartoons JJ, but I especially love the last one. Trolling ratfucker.
Head ratfucker has his job for four more years. With New Fox Contract Ailes To Run GOP For Four More Years | Blog | Media Matters for America
JJ. I always enjoy the cartoons! I also loved the article on editorial cartoons. My favorite was the little girl “now understanding”. By the way i left a spill on the aisle below, i kinda of went on a tear. if I upset anyone sorry. Unfortunately i have to go back to work in 30 minutes so I can’t be here.
Glad you got a chance to post something!
From Facebook:
OOOOOh i love that one, JJ.
Am the only one that can see the Salt Lake Trib cartoon?
Yes, Dak.
I fixed it.
Thanks BB
Here is some happy fun! John Lewis, YEA!
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/19/civil-rights-leader-dances-gangnam-style/
When will they let this settle down: CIA Linked Libya Attack To Militants Within 24 Hours, CNN Panel Points To White House Contradictions | Mediaite
Another update, this one on Beirut: Beirut Blast Kills at Least 8, Including Top Security Official – NYTimes.com
This shit will settle down when the election is done or when someone gets kicked hard enough. pdgrey put this in the last thread. David Ignatius, who has CIA contacts, has the talking points they prepared and quotes from the guy who put the intelligence together. Not one damn thing contradicts what Susan Rice or the administration has said at all.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/benghazi-attack-becomes-political-ammunition/2012/10/19/e1ad82ae-1a2d-11e2-bd10-5ff056538b7c_story.html?hpid=z2
These other “scoops” are cherry picked bullshit put out by the right to further their own side of the story,
I know, that is what bothers me so.
The first comment to that mediaite story is a link to David Ignatius’s story in the WAPO. The information is available but people have to read it. That goes for the reporters
This is disgusting: Vandals spray-paint swastikas on Obama campaign office in Conifer – The Denver Post
Susie Madrack says the “Grand Bargain” has been put off until next year, at which point if Obama is elected, Obama will support cuts to Medicare and Social Security.
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/report-grand-bargain-plan-postponed-u
I know, I can’t stand either of them!
Darrell Issa seems to have royally fucked up, again!
Foreign Policy: Issa’s Benghazi document dump exposes several Libyans working with the U.S.
That’s what happens when you put a car thief and arsonist in charge of oversight
Spot on!
msnbc: GOP blows secrets and risks lives in document dump ahead of debate
Wonder where the other documents came from if not from the State Dept hearing?
Yeah, and where are the calls for Issa’s neck, like they did with Assange and Manning? Hypocritical assholes.
Luv the cartoons, as always, JJ. Especially the Bayeux tapestry one!
(just catching up)