Astronaut Blues
I hate stories like this one about the homicidal astronaut.
People sidle up to me in the elevator and say, "Can't wait to see what you draw about this astronaut." No pressure. Clearly, the cartoons they've drawn in their heads will be better than anything I put on paper.
But the truth is, there's no substance in a story like this. People, relationships gone bad, love betrayed -- there is nothing for an editorial cartoonist to comment on here. The stress of the job? Please.
And yet I can hear my colleagues swarming around the images. Space shuttle far above earth -- "We've got to stop meeting like this." ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Watch. Their cartoons will be in Newsweek and all over cagle.com. If anybody finds anything substantial to comment on, I'll eat my kneaded eraser.
posted by Jim Borgman at 10:48 AM
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Post a Comment*You are soooooooooooooooooooooo right Jim.
Maybe using the imagery to comment in another issue could be ok.
M.e Cohen, Politicalcartoons.com, has a good one: "flight risk" and another good one: John Branch, San Antonio Express News, "strangest feeling someone is following me" (Shuttle floating overhead. I saw these at http://editorialcartoonists.com
Cheney reading the newspaper. Little Georgie sitting on his knee. Newspaper has astronaut headline. Cheney: "And here, my boy, is another example of that nonsense we'll never try -- 'shuttle diplomacy'." Hmmm...well, maybe not.
Something with a shuttlecock...
Actually, John Trever drew a good'n to the effect that Nowak's shenanigans are the only way to get the media to cover the astronaut program. Another cartoon (can't remember who drew it) pointed out that NASA's missions don't get this sort of saturation coverage.
But you also were right: There were a lot of dumb gag 'toons drawn.
Up next: Anna Nicole Smith!!
this is how i'm starting to feel about poor marcus fiesel. when the story broke, i was very interested. i wanted to know how such a travesty could happen. but the media has made such a spectacle of the whole thing that marcus's suffering has taken backseat to bandwagon-esque frenzy. i'm tired of hearing about the carrolls, and i'm tired of hearing about the foster agency involved. i want progress to be done, and creating a craze like this doesn't do anything for marcus, or the other kids in his situation
I agree. It's a non-issue and not worthy of an editorial cartoon...maybe a gag cartoon, but it's still a cheap shot.
I saw several that used "Houston, we have a problem..."
Sigh.
I did laugh at Steve Kelly's cartoon, which had a reference to "the crime scene containing a powder that was identified as Tang."
--Scott
When you prepare your list of best cartoons of 2007 be sure to include the one you did not draw. In my humble opinion, the astranaut tragedy has no place in political caroons, and the ones I have seen are in incredibly poor taste. Keep up the great work!
very good Jim.
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