Hello, HuffPosters! Welcome to a new feature here, aimed at highlighting the best political cartoons of the week. We put snippets of the cartoons we liked the most in this slideshow -- but you have to click on the link below each one to see the whole cartoon. Then vote for your favorite!
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Looks like you could use some Mr.Fish there :)
Huffpost should expand this and include more cartoonists like Ted Rall and Matt Bors.
Tom Toles is, as always, the best.
nice little gimmick to get more PPM's unfortunately i stopped after the second cartoon...too many clicking back and forth. so I guess it's not going to work.
Nice feature, but if you can't show the cartoon in full it's a bust.
Too much clicking? This really is the 21st Century. Is the microwave too slow?
To see the entire cartoon you must go to the sight that provides the content. It's only fair they get our eyes on their sight. They pay the cartoonist real money. .
Effort aside, I think the cartoon has a lot to say. Too bad the previous administration was not interested in "Swatting Flies" in 2001. They had a mission to accomplish in Iraq.
The entire image voting mechanism at the HuffPost is incredibly cumbersome compared to other sites. First of all, Huffpost forces you to reload the page for each and every image in the sequence. In comparison, other sites allow you to iterate through a slideshow of images without reloading a single page. It's all handled in a single embedded widget, which makes it responsive and easy to use. Cumulatively, there's a huge difference between HuffPost mechanism and that of other sites.
This poll is particularly cumbersome since you don't even get to see the comic with each reloaded page. Again, due to all the sidebar reloading, you actually have three sets of annoying "waiting periods" for each image you want to vote on. I got through about three comics before deciding to quit.
A big reason that HuffPost is a bit unresponsive is all the cross-linking in the sidebars. Every reload or link traversal can take an annoying amount of time. I've gotten to the point where I don't browse HuffPost like I do other sites. I always use "open link in a new tab" so that all of those delays can happen in the background. In some way, Huffpost is a victim of its own success, but in other ways it's design is inefficient, particularly in terms of its polls.
My comment (the first one submitted by the way) does not appear below, but that's okay since EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE BELOW AGREED WITH WHAT I TOLD YOU! You can only censor so much, eh?
For really great Political cartoons see Terrence Nowicki's This is Historic Times! My favorite one is "I'm Teaching With Stupid."
Seconding this! I can't believe how little exposure he gets. thisishistorictimes.com
I'd like to see the cartoons in full but I'm not going to click so many times to see them.
Ditto.
I totally agree. What a pain in the ....
Come on guys! You want us to vote on which questionnaire is the hardest (technically) to answer?
This one takes it, hands down!
Not a laugher.
http://www.light-to-dark.com/Let_Cigna_Decide.html
I'm a longtime reader and longtime cartoon buff, but the great political cartoons of the day are NOT these. Matt Bors is no where on this list--really? And fix the "have to click on it to see the full cartoon".
Don't just use stereotypical sketch political cartoons with vague (or lame) symbolism, try and show some of the great actual artists/cartoonists who have real things to say.
Nice to see the week's cartoons. Too much clicking required to do it.
Agreed, too difficult to see all of the cartoon, so, I quit to get to things that I am supposed to be doing....
You know what would be really nice? If Huffpo showed the ENTIRE cartoon!!!! So I wouldn't have to click on every frickin one of them and wait for them to load. Huffpo, wtf are you thinking?
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First Posted: 10- 2-09 09:06 AM | Updated: 10- 2-09 09:37 AM