(Today's list is dedicated to my departed friend, former Guardian political cartoonist Bill Papas, who kept framed copies in his studio of letters from the various governments--including South Africa, India, and Greece, as I recall--who'd told him he was no longer allowed back in their country. Bill was pretty much fearless, a boozer, a prankster, a troublemaker, and a fisherman--almost everything you'd ever want or expect from a political cartoonist)
1. Fear of fear itself. With a stroke of his pen, last week George Bush did what Osama never could: He put the American experiment on life-support. The WaPo's Tom Toles captures the moment for posterity.
And the aptly-named John Darkow of The Columbia Daily Tribune reminds us of the cost.2. Harmonic toon convergence, Part 1: Fear of a brown planet.It's not that uncommon for cartoonists to independently stumble upon the same gag, especially if it's fairly obvious (see, for example, here, here, here, here, and here).
3. Harmonic toon convergence, Part 2: Dropping the ball. It's rarer, and more rewarding, when a couple of cartoonists take the same image and find very different ways to run with it. Points to Signe Wilkinson of the Philly Daily News and Ed Stein of the Rocky Mountain News.
4. Fear of admitting you were wrong, wrong, wrong. And finally, Lloyd Dangle's Troubletown draws our attention to some of the hidden costs of backing the wrong horse.
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