November 08, 2004

Best Editorial Cartoonist EVER. Clay Bennett is the finest editorial cartoonist* working today. He has remarkable skill with icons, and his work always makes me smile. It doesn't hurt that he's a hell of an artist too.

* (with the possible exceptions of Huck and Konopacki)

posted by scartol 20 years ago
  • Awesome!
  • These are brilliant. I was going to post some of my favorites, but soon there were too many. This one confused me at first - looking again, I'm just damn impressed by his subtlety.
  • These are great - so simple and effective.
  • Thanks so much for this!
  • These are indeed great, and that subtle one is fantastic. It's also nice to see some editorial cartoons that aren't done in the traditional scribbled ink style. Are there other editorial cartoonists working in untraditional artistic styles?
  • The Guardian's Steve Bell has a very distinctive colouring style, that's pretty unusual for UK papers at least. He's also getting increasingly angry, and it's starting to show, which is just great.
  • Great link. I love political cartoons.
  • Is it just me who can't stand the style of editorial cartooning in which you draw a symbolic representation of the issue at hand, write the key words of the issue in big letters on various elements of the drawing, and that's it? No joke, no original take on the issue, just a picture of George Bush throwing a live lobster into a pot of boiling water, with "U.S. ARMY" written on the lobster and "IRAQ" written on the pot. Or whatever. It's one of the reasons I'm so fond of Steve Bell's work - he usually makes a lot of effort to convey his point through stand-alone imagery and dialogue, and he often uses the medium to convey something more intangible, that would be hard to express in words.
  • I've bookmarked both Bennett and Bell. Thank you.
  • Thanks for the introductions to such great editorial cartoonists. I also prefer the visually attractive imagery of colour and well defined forms. Perhaps it's because my eyesight isn't the best, or I just prefer to look at things that give me visual pleasure. The subtle layers of humour involved in a more detailed picture are also very more effective, IMO.
  • Going back, I see why danger says that Bell is getting increasingly angry in his work. Maybe NSFW in America.
  • these are pretty good -- the style kind of reminds me of highschool textbook illustrations. My favorite has always been Jeff Danzigger, but maybe that's 'cause I grew up with him in the Rutland Herald, when he wrote (drew) about ma and pa Teed (sorry, couldn't find a link).
  • Although he can be shrill, I'm a fan of Scott Bateman