Doug Marlette, Advisory Board member of the Critical Linkages II Newslette
and a Pulitzer Prize Winning cartoonist writes: The Japanese word for
cartoons is "magna," which means "irresponsible drawings." Responsibility,
like beauty, always lies in the eyes of the beholder. Growing up in the
southern United States during the era of the civil rights movement, I
recall how business,civic, and religious leaders called Dr. Martin Luther
King's marches for justice "irresponsible." David Halberstram's coverage
of Vietnam was called "irresponsible." Ben Bradlee's coverage of Watergate
was called "irresponsible." It is in this spirit of such
"irresponsibility," that I am pleased to share my own "irresponsible
drawings." Critical Linkages II Newsletter (Volume II 11/95), page 8.
The problem with negativism, however, is that it leads one away from one's
goals. Dilbert may point out some stuff. The responsibility lies with us
to do something about it as marlette suggests in the following excerpt.
"I sometimes characterize the cartoonists role as that of the newspapers
designated feeler. Unlike that of our objective, emotionally distant,
journalistic colleagues, cartoonists are emotional teabags. We're the
one's with the epidermis of semi-permeable membrane, the ones who allow
events to get through our defenses and under our skin. At our best, like
any artist, we should respond with passion and feeling, simplicity and
directness, With some shill and luck ... we may hit on something. We may
occasionally get in touch with that which is basic and common to us all,
that which can move us deeply ..."Critical Linkages II Newsletter (Volume
III 1/96), page 7.
Carol Sager, Sager Educational Enterprises
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