Killed Cartoons: Casualties from the War on Free Expression - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393329240 ISBN 13: 9780393329247

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007

Synopsis

One hundred political cartoons you wanted to see, but weren’t allowed to: all were banned for being too hot to handle.

Think you live in a society with a free press? These celebrated cartoonists and illustrators found out otherwise. Whether blasting Bush for his “Bring ’em on!” speech, spanking pedophile priests, questioning capital punishment, debating the disputed 2000 election, or just mocking baseball mascots, they learned that newspapers and magazines increasingly play it safe by suppressing satire.

With censored cartoons, many unpublished, by the likes of Garry Trudeau, Doug Marlette, Paul Conrad, Mike Luckovich, Matt Davies, and Ted Rall (all Pulitzer Prize winners or finalists), as well as unearthed editorial illustrations by Norman Rockwell, Edward Sorel, Anita Kunz, Marshall Arisman, and Steve Brodner, you will find yourself surprised and often shocked by the images themselves―and outraged by the fact that a fearful editor kept you from seeing them. Needed now more than ever because of a neutered press that’s more lapdog than watchdog, Killed Cartoons will make you laugh, make you angry, and make you think.

About this title

About the Author:

David Wallis, editor of the acclaimed Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print, is the founder of Featurewell.com, a syndicate that markets articles by more than 1,500 writers and journalists. He lives in the New York City area.

From Booklist:

If editorial cartoonists are the court jesters of journalism, using humor to speak truth to power, I^Killed Cartoons demonstrates that the monarchs who run newspapers have grown increasingly unwilling to listen. The collection rescues dozens of cartoons rejected for politics, offending advertisers, or just plain effrontery. Their artists include Pulitzer Prize winners Garry Trudeau, Doug Marlette, Paul Conrad, Paul Szep, and Mike Luckovich; renowned illustrators Al Hirschfeld and Edward Sorel; and young turks Ted Rall and Keith Knight and comics creators Carol Lay, Ward Sutton, and Peter Kuper. Sometimes the editorial vetoes are understandable, such as the I^Los Angeles Times spiking Conrad's rendition of a Republican elephant humping a Democrat donkey, but just as often what has been squelched is surprisingly benign. Historical examples include a 1952 Herblock cartoon excoriating McCarthy I^ and Nixon and a 1968 Norman Rockwell illustration for I^ Look, but "old" in this book means 1982 or 1991. Most selections are recent, attesting to increased media cowardice and irrelevance. But not all cartoon killers are daily papers or otherwise corporate-owned. A handful have been such purportedly open-minded publications as the I^ Nation, the I^ New Yorker,and I^ Mother Jones. Gordon Flagg
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About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0393329240
• ISBN 13: 9780393329247
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Wallis David