Wichita Eagle
Eagle editorial cartoonist
Richard Crowson drew a caricature of his fourth-grade teacher,
Mrs. Edwards, back in 1962. It was complete with windshield-size cat's-eye glasses and sky-high bouffant hairdo, he recalls. "My friends loved it. Mrs. Edwards issued the 1962-American-fourth-grade-teacher version of a fatwa: I stayed after school and worked on arithmetic problems. I got the message. Symbols are powerful. That seems truer than ever in our tumultuous world today."
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"How surreal has it been to see the words 'cartoon' and 'rioting' in the same headline lately?" writes editorial cartoonist
Jim Borgman. "To begin a drawing simply intending to offend people seems unethical to me."
(Cincinnati Enquirer)
