Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year

Even though it is seven years later, memories of the attacks on 9/11 still leave me teary-eyed. This book is a collection of the best editorial cartoons of the year 2001, so the topic of many of them is the attacks, the collective emotional reaction and the determination to fight back. However, the events of the past seven years also raise other reasons for sadness. In these cartoons, you see national unity of a kind almost unprecedented in the United States, yet the actions over the last seven years have destroyed it. Since that time, we have had among other things the revelation of torture, a war launched against Iraq on false pretenses with no end in sight, destruction of fundamental civil liberties and the exploitation of the tragedy for political gain. Political cartoonists are some of the best commentators on the social and body politic; they manage to capture an enormous amount of reality in a simple image and phrase. They are among my favorite reading material and despite the feelings of melancholic recapitulation, I still enjoyed reading these cartoons.

Leading editorial cartoonists are presented in a volume which focuses on concerns over terrorism and political actions. Best Editorial Cartoons Of The Year, 2002 Edition packs in popular black and white editorials that reflect the major concerns of the Year 2001: any that wants a record of events and opinions will find Best Editorial Cartoons Of The Year, 2002 Edition intriguing and fun.