Toons: Afghanistan Cave Writings, Goldman Sachs Muppets, Dark Threatening Cloud and More. - 3/16/12
By Nate Beeler, The Washington Examiner - 3/16/2012
By Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons - 3/16/2012
By Rob Tornoe, Media Matters - 3/16/2012
By Bob Englehart, The Hartford Courant - 3/16/2012
By Kirk Walters, Toledo Blade - 3/16/2012
By Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News - 3/16/2012
By Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com - 3/16/2012 - "Goldman Sachs Muppets"
By Tim Eagan, Deep Cover - 3/16/2012
By Clay Bennett, March 16, 2012
By Steve Benson, March 16, 2012
By Mike Luckovich, March 16, 2012
By Ted Rall, March 16, 2012
By Rob Rogers, March 16, 2012
By Tom Toles, March 16, 2012
By Robert Ariail, March 16, 2012
By Pat Oliphant, March 16, 2012
By Jim Morin, March 19, 2012
Notes: Recent editions can be found in my journal. Guess what? New Cartoonists = Exciting! - Credit: Cagle Cartoons, Universal UClick.
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Thank you so much for always bringing us the best o' the bunch! 
...that takes some talent to be effective. My pleasure to bring them to DU, gateley 
I envy you as I shiver! 
Interestingly enough, in terms of editorial control, a media organization may tell a journalist what they can write, but only very rarely will a cartoonist be told: we can't run that or in the case of this weeks Doonesbury, we can't run that on that page.
There's a long, honorable history of editorial cartoonists or graphic editorialists or whatever you want to call them. I remember seeing some examples of woodcuts from newspapers in Thomas ("Long Tom"
Jefferson's time in my American History classes.
...albeit with some ugly interludes, nobody really owns the cartoonists and so there is muckraking of all opinions. As RZM recently reminded me, Dr. Seuss was an editorial cartoonist in World War II and did some very nasty depictions of the Japanese. Cartoons cut to the soul, but cut they do.
Here are some of Andrew Jackson: http://mrkash.com/activities/jacksoncartoons.html
A satire on Andrew Jackson's campaign to destroy the Bank of the United States and its support among state banks. Jackson, Martin Van Buren, and Jack Downing struggle against a snake with heads representing the states. Jackson (on the left) raises a cane marked "Veto" and says, "Biddle thou Monster Avaunt!! avaount I say! or by the Great Eternal I'll cleave thee to the earth, aye thee and thy four and twenty satellites. Matty if thou art true...come on. if thou art false, may the venomous monster turn his dire fang upon thee..." Van Buren: "Well done General, Major Jack Downing, Adams, Clay, well done all. I dislike dissentions beyond every thing, for it often compels a man to play a double part, were it only for his own safety. Policy, policy is my motto, but intrigues I cannot countenance." Downing (dropping his axe): "Now now you nasty varmint, be you imperishable? I swan Gineral that are beats all I reckon, that's the horrible wiper wot wommits wenemous heads I guess..." The largest of the heads is president of the Bank Nicholas Biddle's, which wears a top hat labeled "Penn" (i.e. Pennsylvania) and "$35,000,000." This refers to the rechartering of the Bank by the Pennsylvania legislature in defiance of the adminstration's efforts to destroy it.
Date 1836
