Cartoon Central

In college, I remember writing about the change in the tenor of political cartoons between WWII and the Vietnam War (a contrast demonstrated most notably by the jingoistic, downright racist WWII-era drawings of Theodore "Dr. Seuss" Geisel. Yeah, that Dr. Seuss). The cartoonists at the New Yorker were at the forefront of this shift away from uncritical war bond hawking, and for a while, they seemed to be alone.