‘Midwest nice’ cartoonist for The New Yorker is ready for Chicago and the DNC
Paul Noth [link added], who contributes regularly to the magazine, has his pencil poised for the Democratic National Convention. He produces some of the nation’s sharpest political satire.
Most recently, Noth, 51, found himself wrestling with an idea after watching Donald Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention in July. After tuning in for the better part of an hour, Noth “stopped because that speech was just endless,” recalls the South Milwaukee resident. “Then I found myself waking up at four in the morning and I was like, ‘I gotta draw that.’ ”
The drawing was selected as The New Yorker’s daily, topical cartoon and ran in the magazine’s newsletter that same day.
Elly Fishman interviews and profiles cartoonist Paul Noth for The Chicago Sun-Times. Also at WBEZ-Chicago.
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Nasty midwest cartoon and the Lake County GOP condemned by everybody
A Lake County township Republican group blames a “lapse in judgment” for recently publishing a cartoon about domestic violence, a decision criticized by the Democratic and Republican candidates for state’s attorney.
Again from The Chicago Sun-Times, this time by Kaitlin Washburn:
The Lake County state’s attorney, his Republican opponent and a nonpartisan domestic violence prevention organization called the cartoon insensitive for making light of domestic violence.
“This is a stunning and disgusting moment for Lake County Republicans,” Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart, a Democrat, said in a statement. “Domestic violence is no laughing matter. Every Republican candidate should denounce this sexist, racist, and Trump-like cartoon that dismisses violence against women while ridiculing those who want reproductive rights.”
“As a pro-choice Republican candidate for Lake County state’s attorney, as a former victim of domestic violence, and as a victim’s advocate, I fully and unequivocally denounce the cartoon,” Cole said in a statement. “My campaign is focused on protecting victims and ensuring criminal offenders face real consequences for their actions.”
From Russell Lissau at The Daily Herald:
Vernon Township Republican organization officials on Wednesday called their publication of a much-criticized political cartoon that made light of domestic violence “a lapse in judgment.”
“Internal documents are often times prepared in haste, without enough forethought, especially without intent for public consumption,” the Buffalo Grove-based group said in a prepared statement. “We will improve our procedures moving forward.”
The two-panel cartoon, which the group published this month in an electronic newsletter, depicts a visibly injured woman wearing a “Vote Blue” T-shirt telling an anthropomorphic donkey with tattoos reading “war,” “open border” “crime” and more that she won’t leave him “as long as I can have abortions.”
Officials from both parties blasted the cartoon and the group for publishing it.