It's too bad that the production staff couldn't/didn't get Ralph Steadman to participate in this discussion. He very publically stopped doing political cartooning about ten years ago on the grounds that it had become little more than a lifestyle porn accessory for the ruling elite. Meanwhile, it appears that Steadman has something not unlike a weblog.In a 24/7 news cycle, the political cartoonist lives on the verge of constant overload. Artist, news junkie, provocateur, the political cartoonist digests reams of newspaper column inches and hours of broadcast news reports in the daily quest for the angles that rankle, those choice twists of news that best lend themselves to visual interpretation.
I do have mixed feelings about it. I can't wait for Saddam Hussein to be dead. I would just feel happy. The world would be a better place. But you have to remember that that doesn't excuse just how they fucking botched this entire thing, soup to nut. I feel like I could have gone to the UN with four magic markers and a notepad and convinced the whole world to come with me to overthrow Saddam Hussein. It's Saddam Hussein, for fuck's sake! Who doesn't want to get rid of that bastard?