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The Ottawa Citizen’s longtime editorial cartoonist Alan King once described his craft as the “scruffy offspring of art and journalism.”
King was a master of that unruly child, both entertaining and maddening readers during his 17 years as lead cartoonist. His richly illustrated ink drawings regularly skewered politicians, pomposity and hypocrisy.
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“Editorial cartoons,” he once wrote, “speak louder, more sharply, and with less forethought than most forms of newspaper commentary: It is their glaring defect and great advantage.”