Word: withing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A. Only the size of cartoonists' egos. Nowadays political commentary, especially satirical commentary, is usually ink wasted. Eighty years ago that wasn't the case. At that time a political cartoonist could turn an election around. Before TV, before movies and radio, a drawing of a weasel with the Governor...
A. Totally. But note the distinction. With the issue of horrendous animal abuse within cosmetic testing labs, all that was needed was to illustrate the facts. When I drew a rabbit with clips pulling its eyelids open, it was effective precisely because of its accuracy.
A. I find the environment far more exciting to the future than politics. Politics is shockingly transient. The issues that we are so concerned with today are nearly forgotten in three weeks. Environmental issues are not going to be a moot point ten years from now. They are getting more...
A. Probably because I was feeling uncharacteristically honest with myself at the moment. There are some of us being paid millions to do essentially the same thing that used to get us sent to the principal -- drawing our authority figures in an unflattering light, which in those days probably meant...
A. The comic page is bogged down in tradition; it is weighed down with expectations. What I find so exciting is the possibility for gentle subversion, to be friendly and dangerous at the same time, like kissing your first cousin hello and lingering.