Comments on: Luckovich and Peters Review 2005 in Editorial Cartooning

By: Drawn! The Illustration Blog » Blog Archive » 2005 Reuben Winners

Drawn! The Illustration Blog » Blog Archive » 2005 Reuben Winners — Sun, 28 May 2006 14:36:37 +0000

[...] At last night’s 2005 Reuben Awards, bestowed by the National Cartoonists Society, editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich (previously discussed here) won the Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year, professional cartooning’s highest honor. [...]

By: MadDog

MadDog — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:26:38 +0000

Wow, for someone who doesn’t want to start a flame war, not many people like being called their art ” Democrat party propaganda/liberal mainstream-media, head-in-the-sand, knee-jerk”..
And then you soften your tone. Geez. Us versus them, huh?

By: MadDog

MadDog — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:26:00 +0000

By: mart

mart — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:29:26 +0000

Luckovich won in 1995, and if you look at the examples at pulitzer.com maybe you’ll be as underwhelmed as I was – not just by the illustration skills but by the “humor”:
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1995/editorial-cartooning/works/

Peters won 24 years ago in 1981. His illustration style is more interesting, with much better compositions.

If you can stomach political cartoons from the other side of the fence then these people serve up about the best out there:
http://www.coxandforkum.com/

and the caricatures by Cox are pretty good.

By: mart

mart — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:29:00 +0000

Peters won 24 years ago in 1981. His illustration style is more interesting, with much better compositions.

If you can stomach political cartoons from the other side of the fence then these people serve up about the best out there:
http://www.coxandforkum.com/

and the caricatures by Cox are pretty good.

By: TRoyal

TRoyal — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:33:31 +0000

I’ve met Mr. Luckovich here in Chicago, presenting a few of his cartoons at a seminar. I love his work, and his style translates very well to the disappearing space of the editorial cartoon in today’s newspapers.
While I may be different than some in political leanings, we can agree that the reproductions of his work as presented in the link blows. It looks ike a leaflet photocopied fifty or so times. If his stuff was at Caple, I would’ve posted that there to draw better attention to the work itself. The interview was good.
It’s easier to denigrate the product when the wrapper isn’t up to usual standard; Mart and I agree on that. He disagrees on an ideological basis; I on the basis of the content being up to usual standard.

By: TRoyal

TRoyal — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:33:00 +0000

By: Johnny

Johnny — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:06:43 +0000

Mart, Drawn! has no political agenda (I’ve even turned away advertisers that were too politically bent). You may not agree with the politics of Mike Luckovich or Mike Peters, but their cartoons won them both Pulitzers for editorial cartooning, so I think an interview with them is more than worthy of a link.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:06:00 +0000

By: mart

mart — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:28:08 +0000

TRoyal: thanks for the civil response. 99.9 percent of the time this sort of discussion veers off into a political flame war. My only intention in making these points is that the quality of the link was below Drawn’s usual standard and that although it’s their blog and their right to say whatever they want they run the risk of alienating people with the way the politically charged link was presented.