To the Point
Cartoons, Comic Strips and Opinions
Rob Rogers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is the latest editorial cartoonist to lose his job. Fired for harsh portrayals of President Trump. We’ll talk with him and look at another kind of cartooning: comic strips.
By Warren Olney • • 45m ListenPolitical cartoons are as old as America--going back to colonial days, the Revolution and the Civil War. They’re still a prominent feature of editorial pages nationwide. Should they reflect the artist’s opinion--or mirror the publisher’s point of view? While that debate rages, politics are also familiar on other newspaper pages: the comics. From “The Yellow Kid”--who gave his name to tabloid journalism--to “Doonesbury,” “Peanuts” and “Candorville.” We’ll talk with the founder of Ohio State’s massive Cartoon Library and Museum
Political cartoons courtesy of Rob Rogers.
Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Rob Rogers
Editorial cartoonist formerly with the Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Lucy Caswell
Professor Emerita and Founding Curator of The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.