Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Henley Way Shape or Form

Editorial cartoonists all employ the standard trope of pinning a label on their targets. No caricaturist can expect his or her work to be universally recognizable; multiplying that constraint by about a factor of 5 yields the Lake County Journal's DIY cartoonist:

2010 Election Review
For those keeping score at home, the images represent, from l. to r. -- Mark Kirk, Joe Walsh, Robert Dold, Adam Kinzinger, Dan Seals. Although your LakeCountyEye isn't all that sure that Joe Walsh wasn't mislabeled:
DIY Cartoonist
Drawing
Don HenleyJoe Walsh
The label may say WALSH but your LakeCountyEye's Lyin' Eyes see someone else. Operatives are asked to decide for themselves who the Lake County Journal's DIY cartoonist intended to represent. Don Henley or Joe Walsh? It goes without saying that quality control is the first thing to suffer in an economic recession.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

What does DYI stand for?

Anonymous said...

Oops. Did I type DIY or DYI? Anyway, what does it mean?

Barney Baxter said...

hi Anon,

Do it yourself.

-BB-

Anonymous said...

Is this meant as an insult?

Barney Baxter said...

hi Anon,

No

-BB-