"The recent news about administration nominees dropping like flies should offer plenty of fertile material for editorial cartoonists.
After all, poking fun at a president is what editorial cartoonists do so well. But so far, most pen-and-inksters do not seem to be skewering President Barack Obama in the wicked ways they skewered former President George W. Bush.
Why is that? According to some masters of the trade, newbie-in-office Obama presents special challenges. It's not that he's hard to draw or that he's uninteresting. The problem, they say, is that he has not revealed any flamboyant character flaws. And they want to give him a chance to succeed".
see more what the whole story is about on: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100241124
After all, poking fun at a president is what editorial cartoonists do so well. But so far, most pen-and-inksters do not seem to be skewering President Barack Obama in the wicked ways they skewered former President George W. Bush.
Why is that? According to some masters of the trade, newbie-in-office Obama presents special challenges. It's not that he's hard to draw or that he's uninteresting. The problem, they say, is that he has not revealed any flamboyant character flaws. And they want to give him a chance to succeed".
see more what the whole story is about on: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100241124
