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Summary: Taking aim at Bill and Hillary's first year in Washington
Review: I really like looking at old editorial cartoons because to me they represent history with an attitude. "Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year, 1994" presents the work of over 190 leading cartoonists from the United States and Canada covering the events of 1993. That means that the number one target of is going to the new President Bill Clinton, with his better-half Hillary clearly coming in second. After all, 1993 was the year when the First Lady took the point on the Health Care issue (Remember the attempt to reform Health Care? Everybody agreed something needed to be done but they could never agree on what so nothing got done, i.e., par for Washington). You also have the traditional fun with top-level appointments gone wrong, Congress passing NAFTA, continual turmoil in the Middle East, and a new nationwide emphasis on the role of the family in a stable society. This is not to say everything that happened that year was fun, because 1993 was also the year of the Branch Dividians in Waco, the death of Thurgood Marshall, the trials of the officers in the Rodney King incident, and foreign policy problems in Somalia and Bosnia. There are 395 cartoons in this volume edited by Charles Brooks, former president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, including the winning selections of the major awards for excellent, such as the Pulitzer Prize and the Fischetti Award. I have always been a fan of editorial cartoonists like Jeff MacNelly and Paul Conrad, but looking through these pages you will discover "new" artists who will become favorites as well. I like what Gary Brookins, John Trever, and Walt Handelsman do with Clinton, and I like anything Michael Ramirez wants to draw. Of course, students of the art form itself will find these volumes to be primers on how to be a top flight editorial cartoonist.
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Summary: Taking aim at Bill and Hillary's first year in Washington
Review: I really like looking at old editorial cartoons because to me they represent history with an attitude. "Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year, 1994" presents the work of over 190 leading cartoonists from the United States and Canada covering the events of 1993. That means that the number one target of is going to the new President Bill Clinton, with his better-half Hillary clearly coming in second. After all, 1993 was the year when the First Lady took the point on the Health Care issue (Remember the attempt to reform Health Care? Everybody agreed something needed to be done but they could never agree on what so nothing got done, i.e., par for Washington). You also have the traditional fun with top-level appointments gone wrong, Congress passing NAFTA, continual turmoil in the Middle East, and a new nationwide emphasis on the role of the family in a stable society. This is not to say everything that happened that year was fun, because 1993 was also the year of the Branch Dividians in Waco, the death of Thurgood Marshall, the trials of the officers in the Rodney King incident, and foreign policy problems in Somalia and Bosnia. There are 395 cartoons in this volume edited by Charles Brooks, former president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, including the winning selections of the major awards for excellent, such as the Pulitzer Prize and the Fischetti Award. I have always been a fan of editorial cartoonists like Jeff MacNelly and Paul Conrad, but looking through these pages you will discover "new" artists who will become favorites as well. I like what Gary Brookins, John Trever, and Walt Handelsman do with Clinton, and I like anything Michael Ramirez wants to draw. Of course, students of the art form itself will find these volumes to be primers on how to be a top flight editorial cartoonist.
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