Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year: 1984 Edition

by Charles Brooks (Editor), Karl Hubenthal (Foreword by)

Overview

What do the Regan administration, the U.S. Budget,
National Defense, the Soviet Pipeline, and the Pro-Football Strike all have in common? Theyï ¿ ½re all subjects that were up for grabs in 1982 for the nation's leading editorial cartoonists.
Started in 1972, the series has been widely acclaimed as a concise yet far-ranging pictorial history of each year's events. As
Publishers Weekly said, it's a great way to get the gut feeling of a year's history.
The 1984 edition continues the standard of excellence established in previous editions. More than 350 editorial cartoons reflect the best work of 140 cartoonists who focused their sights on the Middle
East, Poland, Latin American, Great Britain, Pope John Paul II, the economy, and an array of other issues that made the headlines in 1982.
Editor Charles Brooks is past president of the
Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and for 38 years was a cartoonist for the Birmingham News. He has been the recipient of 13
Freedom Foundation Awards, a national VFW Award, two Vigilante Patriot
Awards, and a Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial cartooning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780882894454
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	07/31/1999
Series:	Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year
Edition description:	1984th 1984 ed.
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

In addition to his lifetime of work as an editorial cartoonist, Charles Brooks has had another rewarding long-time career: that of editor of Pelican's Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year Series. This landmark series, begun in 1972, showcases the work of editorial cartoonists from the United States and Canada. Throughout his life, Brooks has not only seen history unfold before his eyes, but he also has recorded it for posterity in his cartoons. So, too, do the editorial cartoonists that he chooses to appear in each edition of Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year. The cartoons, inevitably more famous than the cartoonists themselves, become a part of the history that they capture. Charles Brooks is past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and was a cartoonist for the Birmingham (Ala.) News for thirty-eight years. He has been the recipient of thirteen Freedom Foundation awards, a national VFW award, two Vigilante Patriot awards, and a Sigma Delta Chi award for editorial cartooning. Brooks' cartoons appear in more than eighty books, including textbooks on political science, economics, and history, as well as encyclopedias and yearbooks. His original cartoons are on display in the archives of many libraries.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	6
	Award-Winning Cartoons	9
	The Reagan Administration	15
	O'Neill and the Democrats	28
	Congress	33
	National Defense	39
	The Economy	49
	Foreign Affairs	53
	Guns and Assassins	68
	The Mideast	73
	Poland	81
	Inflation	84
	The Budget	90
	David Stockman	97
	The Supreme Court	102
	Women's Rights	106
	Anwar Sadat	109
	Controllers' Strike	113
	The Press	119
	Canadian Politics	123
	The Royal Wedding	126
	Baseball Strike	129
	The Environment	133
	The Med Fly	137
	The Moral Majority	141
	Richard Nixon	145
	... and Other Issues	148
	Past Award Winners	157
	Index	159
	Cartoonists' Self-Portraits

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
What a year for those who make us laugh -- and think! There are usually a number of interesting political events in any given year, but the crazy election of 2000 gave the nation's editorial cartoonists an extra load of ammunition for their feverish imaginations. In this roundup of the best cartoons of the year, there is an entire section on "The Florida Vote," including hilarious takes on hanging, dangling, and pregnant chads; the meddlesome Jeb Bush; fashion icon Katherine Harris; and the legion of lawyers. As you would expect, George "Shrub" Bush and Al "The Robot" Gore go at it in a series of cartoons covering both the campaign and the resulting vote-counting chaos.

The exiting Clinton administration, which certainly didn't disappoint the nation's editorial cartoonists, gets a final dose of abuse, including appearances by Monica, Janet Reno, Hilary (as she makes her departure for the Senate), and the various Whitewater probe bloodhounds.

Other domestic doings chronicled in these pages include Alan Greenspan's adroit handling of the economy (and his role as "shadow president"), the rise and fall of the dot-com economy, the Supreme Court's upholding of the Boy Scouts' ban on gays, the Harry Potter craze, the contradictory role of guns and Bibles in our schools, the breaking of the human genome code, racial profiling in our biggest cities, and John Rocker's "free speech" issues.

Foreign affairs are not slighted: After all, 2000 was the "Year of Elian." The cartoonists also weigh in on the struggle for Middle East peace, Vladimir Putin (as Vlad the Impaler, in one instance), and other international inanities.

The book hits a more emotional and intimate note with heartfelt tributes to two well-loved cartoon icons who perished in 2000: Peanuts creator Charles Schulz and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Jeff MacNelly.

This is one of my favorite reads every year. It perfectly encapsulates the events of the previous 12 months and gives new meaning to that old chestnut about a picture being worth a thousand words! (Nicholas Sinisi)

Nicholas Sinisi is the Barnes & Noble.com Nonfiction editor.

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This prize collection of 1997's funniest, most memorable, and stunningly insightful newspaper editorial cartoons is a mirror of the concerns and disbelief of that year. It's a perfedct 'everyman's history'.

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