Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year: 1993 Edition

Book Overview

In the heat of an election year, candidates bantered, shook hands, and dodged the issues on the campaign trails for the White House. Sparks from the Rodney King trial set fires throughout Los Angeles as rioters took to the streets. A basketball championship led to an overtime of overturning police cars in the Windy City, while critics accused the White House of turning a deaf ear on the civil war in Yugoslavia and U.N. relief missions to Sarajevo were met by gunfire and shelling.
Back at home, the rights of women were a continuing issue as allegations of sexual harassment forced resignations from the Navy, and Olympic heroes brought home world records and gold medals from Barcelona and Albertville.
These are just a few of the subjects satirized, analyzed, and characterized by some of the world's top editorial cartoonists. For more than twenty years, The Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year Series has been one of the nation's most-read collections with nearly 200,000 copies in print. This latest addition to the series continues to present the best of the award-winners, the newcomers, and not-yet-famous. From the editorial page at the breakfast table to the pages of this compilation, the featured cartoons and their artists are sure to inspire and humor readers.
Aimed at readers with a comic sense of history and those in the political know, The Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year Series is also a must for libraries, schools, and classrooms that teach current events. Often funny, but at times sobering, the collection of works in this latest edition recount the events of 1992 with clarity, creativity, and endless chuckles.

ABOUT THE EDITOR
Editor Charles Brooks is past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and was a cartoonist for the Birmingham (AL) News for thirty-eight years. He has been the recipient of thirteen Freedom Foundation awards, a national VFW award, two Vigilante Patriot awards, and a Sigma Delta Chi award for editorial cartooning. Brooks' cartoons appear in more than eighty books, including textbooks on political science, economics, and history, as well as encyclopedias and yearbooks. His original cartoons are on display in the archives of many libraries.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882899686
• ISBN13: 9780882899688
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.0" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

A look back at the major issues of 1992 and the editorial cartoonists that expressed the positions

The good editorial cartoonist must possess a slicing blade of sarcasm, extensive knowledge of current affairs, a flair for the dramatic, and a great deal of artistic ability. The cartoons featured in this book demonstrate that such combinations of skills exist in abundance. These cartoons were created in the transition year from the administration of George H. W. Bush to Bill Clinton. In retrospect, many of them are significantly off base, specifically those that depict the budget deficit as an unbeatable monster and the economy spirally towards disaster. That of course was not the case; the last years of the Clinton administration were those of unprecedented national prosperity, even to the point of significant budget surpluses. If you were conscious in the political sense in 1992, then these cartoons will remind you of the debates and arguments that took place as the country was heading into another presidential election. They also enable you to look back and see how accurate the commentators were. However, if you were not politically conscious at the time or know little history, then most the cartoons will make little sense to you.