A Look At The Other Comics Section

I'm sure that the majority of comics fans have at least a few comic strip collections in their library. Some of you may even follow a few daily strips in your local paper.
But we're not going to look at any of those type of strips right now. Instead, let's take a look at the other source of daily comics: the editorial section.
Editorial cartoons are a tradition that go back as far as the invention of the printing press (maybe even further back than that). Usually drawn as a direct response to current events, collections of them are generally rare. It's somewhat pointless to print a book full of cartoon panels that are already outdated a week after they're drawn, isn't it?
The book I'm drawing from is no exception. A large majority of the cartoons in this book were pretty much irrelevant now (jokes about Bill Clinton, O.J. Simpson, W. Bush, etc.). Of course, older comics have a historical value for scholars, but I picked these ten specifically because I felt they were either A.) still relevant or B.) timeless.

By Michael Ramirez.
from EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO MY OPINION (ISBN 978-0-470-40677-9), 2008











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