NY Times to stop publishing Political Cartoons (1 Viewer)

[badmojo1006]

Sad day for American journalism

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Ridiculous.

 

[[scooter]]

Ridiculous.

Also kind of pointless. The clicks-to-cost ratio can't be that bad.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Sad and I’ll add stupid. This is the heckler’s veto at work.

 

[Sheriff Bart]

Fail

 

[Osaurus]

Ziggy stays though, right?

 

[jon_mx]

Humor is offensive.   

 

[Cowboysfan8]

Everything is offensive.   

fyp

 

[rockaction]

The running joke when I commented over at Reason magazine was to make fun of the op-ed cartoonist relentlessly.

Not good enough to be a cartoonist, not thoughtful enough about politics to get in on the published essay.

The Times is actually ahead of the game on this; political cartoons are rarely funny, regardless of which side. 

Doonesbury by Trudeau, Zippy by Griffith, Bloom County by Breathed, and Non-Sequitur by Wiley were/are the best "front page" sociopolitical cartoons that existed/exist today. Those needed four panels. 

 

[rockaction]

I'm very much a cartoon page kind of guy, too. But political ones just are rarely funny, IMHO. 

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Ziggy stays though, right?

Ziggy's gotten too preachy.

 

[rockaction]

Ziggy's gotten too preachy.

He has. I noticed that right away in our local weekly. 

eta* Whoops. I meant Zippy. He's really preachy and overt now. That's really funny. Ziggy...

 

[IvanKaramazov]

He has. I noticed that right away in our local weekly. 

eta* Whoops. I meant Zippy. He's really preachy and overt now. That's really funny. ZIggy...

Sorry, I was going for a relatively obscure Simpsons reference.  

 

[rockaction]

Sorry, I was going for a relatively obscure Simpsons reference. 

That's great. It was funny even without the Simpsons context. 

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

I enjoy a good political cartoon.