Friday morning, just two more days until Halloween… the eve of Halloween’s eve. And four more days until “The Day of Reckoning.”
Some Halloween op-ed political cartoon funnies and Halloween songs/videos to put you in the Halloween spirit before battling the morning rush hour traffic… happy Halloween!
Every Sunday, New York on the Potomac presents some of the best "political cartoons" from the award-winning artists of Hearst Newspapers. Today, we feature work by Nick Anderson of the Houston Chronicle John de Rosier of the Albany Times Union and David Horsey of SeattlePI.com.
As Russian newspapers steer clear of mocking top officials, cartoonists have turned to the Internet to post cartoons satirising President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
"There is no political cartooning where there is no political battle, and where most publications depend on the authorities," said Viktor Bogorad, one of the few Russian cartoonists to regularly lampoon Putin and Medvedev.
Unlikely to see their work in print, cartoonists post their drawings on sites such as www.Umorist.ru, www.kremlingremlin.ru or www.caricatura.ru to comment on Russia's political news and the country's leaders.
It included a grotesque Putin character.
"Satire has moved underground in Russia. Its existence is impossible under Vladimir Putin's authoritarian regime," said Shenderovich.
Cartoons mocking Putin were thin on the ground at an exhibition titled "Russia and the United States: Political Cartoons Yesterday and Today" held in Saint Petersburg recently.
"Unfortunately, one no longer sees political cartoons in newspapers." said Evgeny Artyomov, director of the Saint Petersburg's Museum of Political History, which hosted the exhibition.
