TIME's Top Ten Editorial Cartoons of 2009
I've hyperlinked the period at the end of this sentence if you really want to look.
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Dec 14, 2009
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Matt, you should have included a more explicit warning -- those editorial cartoons are lame in the extreme. As is Time, so no surprise, really.
I gotta tell you. Looking at these makes me think the basic prerequisite to be an editorial cartoonist is to have no talent other than basic drawing skills. These are pathetic. The utter lack of creativity boggles the mind. That they get paid for this garbage is astonishing.
Christ on a cracker, I had to quit after 2.
Wow, look at all the...labels. Reading this site has made me realize just how much other cartoonists just label stuff.
I can't draw, but I could start a site using stock photo images were I just put labels on the photos relating to some current event.
I'm not going back to look, but I'm pretty sure all those cartoons were done by dudes. Yeah 2009!
The label "appeals" on Norm Coleman's severed leg was pretty funny. Not as funny as it would have been if Coleman's leg had literally been severed and the word "appeals" stenciled on it, but still...
Sumit--Ted Rall did a good cartoon once where he labeled famous photographs with current problems, mocking mainstream cartoons. It's in one of his collections.
Aaron--Yeah, all dudes. This field is mostly dudes, but Signe Wilkinson and Jen Sorensen rock the house. Most of their cartoons are better than most of that list.
um, wowswers. All I can say is, Matt, I'm truly sorry--wait, no, grateful that you weren't included in that steamy pile of "eduhtorials". I'm sorry that they exist. 'Stop or I'll Tweet' -- ouch.
Well ... the Bennett one is decent. The rest are Turd worthy. And TWO Luckoviches? Augh.
And and and "The Boy in the Fiscal Bubble"?!?! (Slits wrists.)
Wow... #10 pisses me off the most. Did Time just decide they needed a balloon boy cartoon in there and put them all in a big raffle wheel to decide which one made the cut? Seriously, out of the 30-odd balloon boy cartoons I've seen, that was not even the best, most original, most coherent, or even best drawn.
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