Editorial cartooning

Luckovich: I thrive on rejection

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Alan Gardner November 30, 2011 1 minute 0 comments

Nice insight into a recent cartoon by Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich over on Michael Cavna’s blog:

“I’d come up with another idea,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist tells Comic Riffs not three hours after his sudden pivot.

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“Thankfully, my editor didn’t think it was my best effort and told me,” Luckovich tells us of his Gingrich/Cain cartoon. “It was around 5, which is pretty late, but I like pressure, so I came up with this idea” of Cain with his trousers ablaze.

Read the whole thing.