I've come across a cartoonist some of you may already know, if you were a PSU student for instance or are a Too Much Coffee Man reader: Alex Miel. Crazy as it sounds, it's actually hard to be both witty and succinct as a writer, AND decent or interesting as an illustrator. I'm pretty critical of so-called "amateur" cartoonists; from the early panels I've seen of Gary Trudeau I never would have hung with him expecting to see Doonesbury flourish just a few years later.
So let's give some of these a try, and because he really does pump out several good cartoons a week, maybe we can start featuring them on Saturdays, like I so much used to enjoy in the Saturday Washington Post. We need a good illustration feature from an Oregon artist!
I really like the illustration of the conflict between the rather immaturely focused voter (the child at Christmas), and the Democratic Santa who tries to convince the kid that a bunch of wonky policy stuff will actually make their lives MUCH better.
This one has to be my favorite. The best political cartooning, or at least the classic kind that I think works best, is the caricaturization of a concept or inanimate thing, as a metaphor for the politician's problem or influence or whatever. Here the inanimism is rather the point; the piece is called ClintonOTron.
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