Best Editorial Cartoons Of The Year

A presidential election like no other a successful bid for the United StatesSenate by former First Lady Hillary Clinton and the closing months of theClinton adm... » 

A presidential election like no other a successful bid for the United StatesSenate by former First Lady Hillary Clinton and the closing months of theClinton administration all provided abundant material in 2000 for editorialcartoonists to perpetuate their art. The once simple task of counting votes wastransformed into a nightmare in the Florida recount. Cartoonists of coursezeroed in on what quickly became a sideshow exposing human foibles andfrailties and partisan posturing wherever they found it. This 29 th editionincludes the best works of some 160 cartoonists on those and other issues thatmade headlines during the year. In addition to politics targets includedcrime gun control the skyrocketing economy and continuing turmoil in theMiddle East. It also features a special tribute to famed comic strip andeditorial cartoonist Jeff MacNelly who died during the year. «