Steve Benson, Brian Fairrington’s work on display
?We get their jaws flapping, and in Sun City we get their hearts stopping.?Benson and Fairrington, two longtime Valley political cartoonists, will be the subjects of a new art show at the Ostrovsky Fine Art Gallery in Scottsdale on Thursday.?Too Hot to Handle? will feature some of the artists? most controversial work, including cartoons that never saw the light of day.Original drawings will be available for purchase, and the artists themselves will be there to greet visitors and demonstrate some sketches.Fairrington got his start at Arizona State University, and is now nationally syndicated…. His awards include a Pulitzer Prize in 1993.Gallery owner Victor Ostrovsky said that, as an artist, he has been impressed with the cartoonists? work.?With very little effort they easily could glide into fine art and be extraordinarily successful in it,? he said.Benson said editorial cartoons generally are not categorized as art; however, they have been a very important expression of artistic opinion in the history of the United States.?You can look at the chronological stream of cartoons to see where nations are at historically,? he said.