Who is the editorial cartoonist for your local newspaper(s)?

[11 Bravo]

I've got Tom Tolles from the Washington Post. He's razor sharp and shreds Chimpy as well as the lesser apes with great regularity. We're also saddled with Bill Garner who appears in the Washington (Moonie) Times. He's not funny, he can't draw, and he has had to apologize to Pakistan for a recent bit of stupidity.

[EFerrari]

1. Don Asmussen at the SF Chron. He is a genius.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/05/25/DDASMUSSENBR.DTL

[MisterP]

2. supertroll Richard--er--Michael Ramirez

LA Times

[Booster]

6. I have Richard's brother as well and he's just like his brother.

[HughBeaumont]

3. Jeff Darcy, who tends to defend Repukes a bit much.

I would say he's bi-partisan, but when he does do the pro-Puke strips, he tends to miss the mark entirely. Unfortunately, I don't have a sample to give you.

[Squeech]

4. I'm a Bostonian

The Globe uses a guy named David (?) Wasserman, and he's quite good. They used to rely on a caricaturist named Paul Szep, and they still run his work sometimes, but he has definitely lost his edge.

As for the Murdoch Herald, who cares?

With the obvious and loathsome exception of Ramirez, editorial cartoonists have largely retained the comfort-the-afflicted, afflict-the-comfortable ethic that used to characterize the press. The medium has a long history of skewering the pretentious: Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall used to say that he didn't have a problem with the printed word, since most of his constituents couldn't read, but "them pitchurs" (the cartoons by Thomas Nast) were seriously damaging to his reputation and power.

Is there a good theory as to why?

[Democrat 4 Ever]

5. Nick Anderson of the Courier-Journal in Louisville, KY

He is great -

[bunkerbuster1]

7. Mike Lukovich, who shreds reThugs like soft cheese

He drives the local metro Atlantans absolutely batshit crazy.

Kinda broad humor (especially compared to the likes of Toles, who's a genius), and he's not above picking ridiculously easy targets, but he gets the job done.