Impeachment Means Good Times for Political Cartoonists Online

Posted on December 18, 1998

A new website called PoliticalCartoons.com is now on-line. The site features the daily updates of political cartoons from the best newspaper editorial cartoonists around the world.

"These are renaissance times for editorial cartoonists," says Hawaii cartoonist, Daryl Cagle, "when we're old we'll look back at Clinton's impeachment and Watergate as the good old days."

This comprehensive new site includes current work by seventy top cartoonists, including eight Pulitzer Prize winners, and rotating work from hundreds of cartoonists around the world. "PoliticalCartoons.com is a news site," says Cagle, "the cartoons change everyday as the news changes. Today, the site is all about the impeachment vote. It was a huge undertaking to get permission to post so much talent in one place -- there is nothing else like this on the web."

PoliticalCartoons.com features a teachers guide for using the cartoons in the classroom. Cagle also posts a growing collection of nearly 2,000 editorial cartoons about the Clinton scandal at: http://www.cagle.com/scandal and a collection of current cartoons about the most recent confrontation with Iraq, called "Saddam -- AGAIN" at: http://www.cagle.com/saddam.