Klansmen, Cowboys and Angelina Jolie In Cartoon Hell [Cartoon Violence]

Is drawing a political cartoon really so difficult? Only if you care about the results! This week in Cartoon Violence, we offer some tips on coming up with ideas for political cartoons as quickly as possible. Let’s take an over-labeled journey to an ordinary American Hell packed with cowboys and klansmen and Angelina Jolie’s lips. Label the hell out of some shit. This should be your first instinct in any case. Sure, political cartooning is the art of turning visual icons into political meaning, but you can always help your case along by using words to tell your readers the exact political meaning. Is China going to run into some human rights trouble when it comes to the Olympics? Well, the giant fist is China, the dude with a suitcase on his shoulder -- Or maybe a giant book for a head? Who the hell knows? -- is Human Rights, and there’s a sign saying "Beijing Olympics." What, you want some explanation as to how these things relate to each other? Don...