The political cartoon is not a news story and not an oil portrait. So what I'm talking about here is the cartoon as an opinion medium. But I still feel that the political cartoon should have a view to express, that it should have some purpose beyond the chuckle. I enjoy many of these and usually put some fun into my work. But as a person with definite opinions, she might have done well to stick with cartooning anyhow.Ī wide range of work comes under the heading of editorial or political cartooning today, including gag cartoons on current topics. I don't believe in the Lucy method of deciding first to "lash out" and then picking a convenient target. "I'm lashing out," she says, "at the people who make these stupid crayons." In one of Charles Schulz's Peanuts strips, Lucy announces that she's going to be a political cartoonist "lashing out with my crayon." Just as Charlie Brown asks the subject of her work, she strikes the paper with such a bold stroke that it snaps her crayon in half.
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