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Charles Brooks (1) (1920–2011)

Author of Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year: 2002

For other authors named Charles Brooks, see the disambiguation page.

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Editor Charles Brooks is past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and for thirty-six years was cartoonist for the Birmingham (Ala.) News before retiring last year. He is an award-winning cartoonist in his own right and has compiled a provocative collection of political show more and social commentaries in this fourteenth volume. Congressman Jack Kemp (Rep., N.Y.), often the subject of cartoons, offers a perceptive foreword, noting: "No one has ever seen a cartoon poking fun at Mikhail Gorbachev in Pravda or Krokodil, and that fact speaks volumes...." show less

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This was one of my 50 cents (or possibly even free) books I got at one of the various book sales/book faires I attend. 1992 was an interesting year, in politics, economy, education, and just in-general. Things the the USSR breaking up, etc.

This is a collection of editorial cartoons from 1991-1992. Very interesting, entertaining, and fun to look back at a time in my life where I obviously didn't see the bigger picture surrounding us all (since I was turning 7 in 1992), and now I can reflect on those years, from a history/historian's perspective.… (more)
 
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BenKline | Mar 14, 2017 |
These anthologies are a wonderful way to remember the events of the year gone by. I had forgotten about them until I added this one to LibraryThing, but I've now added the volumes for 2001 to 2009 to my wish list at Amazon.
 
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debherter | Jan 26, 2009 |
What strikes me quite a bit about a lot of the cartoons is that they didn’t last. I don’t expect editorial cartoons on issues from 1988 to have much relevance today. The other thing that struck me was how utterly non-subtle many of them are. By that I mean that they don’t make use of the visual element much at all. On the other hand, there are some really great cartoons as well. The 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning went to Berke Breathed for Bloom County.

(rel="nofollow" target="_top">Full review at my blog)… (more)
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KingRat | Jun 28, 2008 |

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