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 Drawing Obama Without Offending Or Being Boring Proves Tough Published: Jan 27, 09 Comments: 1 Views: 5,370 Cartoons of Obama have been springing up in media all around the world, some spunky caricatures, others offensive mockeries. Illustration has always been a huge part of news and entertainment media, but it becomes particularly crucial when it comes to politics—the way a certain person is displayed speaks world’s of the publication’s political stance. Usually, political cartoons emphasize a person’s flaws, but with Obama, some cartoonists are finding it challenging to criticize. “I don’t know that I’ve ever had this experience before, of a president I maybe like,” said Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Pat Oliphant. “This is an antagonistic art. We’re supposed to concentrate on finding things wrong. There’s no point in drawing a cartoon that’s favorable,” he says of the Obama challenge. The gallery includes a sampling of cartoons of Obama, most of which display him as lanky, big eared, and baring a huge grin… for the most part. MAD magazine’s dramatic pieces are an exception! Sources: Themeriblog | Zardozz | Greenlynn | Huffington Post  Amid a worsening recession, there is the question of what appetite exists for ridiculing a chief executive seen as earnestly trying to guide the country toward recovery. Racial sensitivities also are an issue, as reflected in last summer's uproar over the New Yorker cover of the Democratic candidate giving his wife — depicted as a gun-toting, Angela Davis look-alike — a fist jab in the Oval Office.
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