Drawn to Extremes The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons in the United States

Name: Drawn to Extremes The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons in the United States
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ISBN: 9780231130660

ISBN-10: 023113066X

ISBN-13: 9780231130660

Edition: 2004

Authors: Chris Lamb

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Four days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Pulitzer Prize--winning cartoonist Joel Pett of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader chided President George W. Bush for having declared that America would "punish any state that harbored or trained terrorists." In one of his cartoons, Pett asked if this included the state of Florida, where the terrorists had lived and taken flying lessons. When Pett followed with other criticisms of Bush, readers canceled subscriptions, demanded that Pett be fired, and left profane messages on his voice mail. "One elderly woman spat into the phone that I 'should have been in the World Trade Center,'Pett said. "Such is the power of the cartoon when it…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/29/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.93" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.166

Chris Lamb is an associate professor of communication at the College of Charleston. His articles on editorial cartooning have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, Baltimore Sun, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and trade journal Editor & Publisher.




"You Should've Been in the World Trade Center!"



"President Bush Has Been Reading Doonesbury and Taking It Much Too Seriously"



"No Honest Man Need Fear Cartoons"



"McCarthyism"



"Second-Class Citizens of the Editorial Page"



"We Certainly Don't Want to Make People Uncomfortable Now, Do We?"



"That's Not a Definition of Libel; That's a Job Description"



"Comfort the Afflicted and Afflict the Comfortable"