Toon-Op by Joel Pett
The week’s best editorial cartoons handpicked and henpecked by Joel Pett, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Lexington Herald-Leader.
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Editorial cartoonists on the Wall Street meltdown.
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Editorial cartoonists explore the campaign’s less human side.
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More editorial cartoons focusing on the GOP vice presidential pick.
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Editorial cartoonists on the hockey mom turned would-be VP.
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Editorial cartoonists¡¦ take on the Democrats¡¦ and Republican¡¦s big parties.
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Americans aren’t the only cartoonists satirizing the Beijing Olympics.
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Cartoonists on the less-than-triumphant qualities of the Beijing Olympics.
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Cartoonists get serious in the final stretch of the presidential campaign.
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Cartoonists overseas offer their wisdom on energy policy.
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Patriotic cartoonists assess the state of the union.
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Cartoonists stop pulling their punches on the would-be president.
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Cartoonists on the high-stakes veepstakes.
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Which cartoonist best captured Obama’s historic victory?
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Cartoonists on Scott McClellan, Clinton’s campaign and oil anxieties.
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Cartoonists on the California court’s gay marriage decision.
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Good cartoons tend to be partisan. Sometimes, there are exceptions.
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Cartoonists on the polygamous Mormon sect and the McCain-Bush relationship.
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Cartoonists on the week’s explosive issues.
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Do cartoonists have something against the Clintons?
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Cartoonists abandon the cerebral realms for a more satisfying punchline.
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Cartoonists mix politics and religion.
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Cartoonists on the Spitzer prostitution scandal.
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Some cartoonists focused on wars that didn’t involve Clinton and Obama.
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Views of the presidential race from Texas and Ohio.
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John Sherffius wins the first big honor of the cartoonists’ award season.
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Last year, editorial cartoonists eulogized civil rights icon Rosa Parks, television veterans Johnny Carson and Peter Jennings, Vietnam War antagonists Gen.
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‘Tis the season to fall back on old issues; some cartoonists do it better than others.
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Cartoonists have always had an interesting relationship with Hollywood writers.
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In the aftermath of the fires, some afterthoughts from cartoonists.
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Gen. Petraeus’ testimony and the president’s speech were plenty for cartoonists.
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A cartoonist takes on a wannabe president -- and gets hauled to court.
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Forget CIA misdeeds, veep-dark secrets, toothpaste made in China, the surge, evil-doers, amnesty for illegal immigrants and the Supreme Court, for the moment.
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The situation in the Mideast is bleak and polarized; so are cartoonists.
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Cartoonists draw some sense from the immigration debate.
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Caricaturing clothing to make a point.
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The courts protect candidates’ right to raise money, and cartoonists’ right to make fun of them.
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Cancer is a touchy subject, so how did cartoonists handle Tony Snow and Elizabeth Edwards?
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Cartoonists take on the four-year anniversary of the Iraq war.
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You know Cabinet members are in deep when cartoonists draw them.
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The best cartoonists say so much with a simple image.
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Looking outside mainstream media for art that isn’t Anna Nicole Smith.
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Cartoonists give Bush a break -- by going after the vice president.
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A look at a few cartoonists who defend the president’s policies.
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Cartoonists look beyond just the president’s State of the Union for their satire.
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Capital punishment becomes a satirical tool after Hussein’s execution.
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Cartoonists heap their discontent on Bush for his ‘new’ Iraq policy.
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How cartoonists have caricatured President Bush.
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Cartoonists take a break from the daily grind and stretch their funny bones.
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Each airport incident gives cartoonists ideological ammunition.
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Cartoonists in Europe and the Middle East take sides on the Israel-Lebanon conflict.
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In the Beirut blast zone and among Malibu’s most wanted, a world at war was on cartoonists’ minds.
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The cartoon science of the stem-cell debate.
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Some American cartoonists took Bush’s anti-media lure and ran with it, while some foreign cartoonists took a different line.
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Editorial cartoonists issued dissenting opinions on the just-ended Supreme Court term.
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Editorial cartoonists honor the flag — and their freedom to abuse it.
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Editorial cartoonists go state of the art.
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Cartoons can be hilarious, but they can also show the bleak side of the news.
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Editorial cartoonists just can’t stop drawing Democrats and Republicans.
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Cartoonists retouched Mona Lisa’s signature smirk in these ‘Da Vinci Code’ sendups.
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Cartoonists drew lines (also walls, wires, tunnels and towers) in the Southwest sand.
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Editorial cartoonists spy on Bush’s nominee for CIA chief.
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How did foreign cartoonists come to grips with the week’s top U.S. topics: illegal immigration, Iranian nukes and high gas prices?
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Editorial cartoons on high gas prices can be crude or refined.
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Winner Mike Luckovich had a great year even if the Pulitzer-picking process didn’t.
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Editorial cartoonists face the gods’ wrath when they don’t blaspheme.
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Editorial cartoonists’ drew curveballs in baseball’s opening week.
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How cartoonists drew the president’s face-saving speech tour.