REVIEWS

KILLED CARTOONS: Casualties of the War on Free Expression Edited by David Wallis. Norton, $15.95 paper (224p) ISBN 9780393329247 Publishers Weekly, March 19, 2007

Operating under the premise that it's fun to get a glimpse of something verboten, Wallis (Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print) presents dozens of political cartoons yanked prior to publication.
Functioning as both a compendium and history of political cartooning, the book is full of cartoons, each accompanied by a brief narrative describing why it was killed, and though some cartoons seem fairly innocuous, the background provides intriguing context. . . Older cartoons are included, as well, like a David Low cartoon killed in 1937 that "skewer[ed] the imperialist ambitions of Fascist leaders in Spain, Japan, Germany and Italy." Catholicism gets spanked, too, as do a host of presidents, notably Clinton, Bush I and II and Reagan. With 100 illustrations, this is a commendable collection. (Mar.)

So Many Books...
By Martin Zimmerman, February 25, 2007
San Diego Union-Tribune

'"Killed Cartoons" are just that: wicked pieces of satire by some of the nation's best, all of which got spiked."

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