Navasky: 15 cartoons that changed the world
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Buzzfeed has a post by Victor Navasky and his summary of 15 of the most influential cartoons from around the world.
No. 10:
In more than 30 years at the helm of The Nation, only once (in the spring of 1984) did the staff march on my office with a petition (signed by 25 people in an office that I had thought employed only 23), demanding in advance that we not publish something ? and that something was a caricature of Henry Kissinger, in David Levine’s words, “screwing the world.” The staff’s objection: “…a progressive magazine has no business using rape jokes and sexist imagery (he screws, she is screwed) to make the point that Kissinger revels in international dominance. Kissinger is a man, but the globe is not a woman.”
Navasky is the author of a new book called “The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power“. He’s also a featured speaker at this year’s Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention in June in Salt Lake City.
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