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The best writing in The Los Angeles Times Sunday Edition is not where you might expect to find it. Skip past the front page, the California, Business, and Sports sections to the inside of Currents, and you’ll find the editorial cartoons. There, in the Toon-Op box, cartoonist Joe Pett ties a selection of recent editorial cartoons together with a short, poetically-refined essay full of double- and triple-entendres. Here’s his contribution to the March 25, 2007 edition:
Pundits leave no milestone unturned, especially one that’s a political millstone, like last week’s fourth anniversary of the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Between rerun clips of Operation Rosy Prediction (Donald Rumsfeld: ” … could be six days, six weeks…. I doubt six months….”) and a midweek presidential plea for Operation Infinite Patience, cartoonists undertook Operation Snarky Rejoinders. Most commentary, like Chan Lowe’s, fell somewhere in the tight niche between bleakly grim and darkly somber. But Nick Anderson exposed below-the-Beltway opposition tactics, and Ed Stein, ever the optimist, offered a long-term anti-terror solution! By the way, a quick etiquette check reveals that, in addition to Mike Thompson’s linen and flowers, fruit is apropos at the four-year mark. To cartoonists, that can only mean — rotten tomatoes.
The cartoon by Ed Stein that Pett mentions is an even more outstanding example of how to say a lot with a little and do it really well (Click on the cartoon to enlarge it.)
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