The Best Political Cartoons of the Year

Featuring cartoons from Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonist Index website, this work contains many cartoons covering major topics, such as from Dick Cheney shooting a guy to the invasion of Lebanon. It also includes cartoons on tainted spinach, bloated Barry Bonds, nut cases Mel Gibson and Ann Coulter, along with nukes in North Korea, and more.

Political cartoons convey ideas with a power and impact that could never be achieved with words; they tell our history as it is shouted from newspaper editorial pages, recording our feelings as America responds to the news of the day. Political cartoons have an impressive history from Ben Franklin's cartoons through hundreds of years and scores of Pulitzer Prize winners who have made our nation laugh and cry. Political cartoons have legions of fans from news wonks to Social Studies teachers throughout the country, as political cartoons are required curriculum in every state. Our books are a visual history like no other and are the premier journal of record for a great American art-form. The topics in this book include the major news stories of the year, with an emphasis on the topics that are most popular on Daryl's Web site. The chapters include topics such as: Gas Prices, Immigration Debate, Da Vinci Code, War in Iraq, Iran Nukes, Milosevic Dies, DeLay Steps Down, FEMA Follies and much more.

About the Editor-Cartoonists
iv
Foreword by Dick Morris
v
About this Book
vi
The Danish Muhammad Cartoons
2
These are the Cartoons
8
Cartoonists on the Cartoons
12
A View from Jordan
18
Political Cartoonists vs. Illustrators
20
Why Cartoons Still Matter ... a LOT
22
The Pope's Remarks
34
Brokeback Mountain
42
Immigration
48
Katie Couric
56
The DaVinci Code
64
Ann Coulter
72
Mel Gibson
80
Cheney Shoots
94
Deadly Spinach
108
Hamas Wins
114
Buffett's Billions
120
John Mark Karr
126
Arab Port Deal
130
Barry Bonds
138
Castro's Condition
142
DeLay Steps Down
148
White House Press Secretary, Tony Snow
152
Foley's Foibles
160
Domestic Spying
168
Bush Leaks
180
Lebanon
192
Iran Nukes
208
North Korea
218
Iraq--Five Years Later
228
Haditha
240
Liquid Terror
244
Guantanamo
254
Memorial Cartoons
258
Artists Index
278